Pro Video Coalitions Ian Anderson has a great article on ProRes

Iain Anderson at Pro Video Coalition has a must read article on Why ProRes? Luckily ProRes has become pretty standard across my editing. Most cameras can record to it, and it works great, with so little processing power. Personally I don't even like bringing any MP4's in, and convert even them to ProRes Proxy. Of course now with a Blackmagicdesign 6k Pro I have been shooting BlackMagic RAW and it in 6K certainly seems to take more processing power than ProRes, but it is also more compressed. I would like to see how the M1 processors can handle H.264, which might mean less recompressing. I just see standardizing on a format to make Premiere work more like AVID, which has always been the most stable editing system.

I am having issues with Autokroma’s BRAW Studio in After Effects

I have been using Autokroma's BRAW Studio Plug in since I got my Blackmagic Cinema Camera 6k Pro, because it allows you to select multiple clips to decode BRAW in Premiere vs the Black Magic plug in that works on one clip at a time. I have run into issues with using these clips in after effects, with the current version I get the effects flashing on and off throughout the clip. You can see the results here. https://vimeo.com/741258641/0427ef87f2 This is a short from the Misadventures of Bear that I am currently working on finishing. Talking to support and moving back to 2.7.1 resolved the flashing, but then removed the added built in LUT, which also screwed up the green screen. https://vimeo.com/741498495/3a2cb0838a My only solution was to use the Plug-in to save out sidecar files of the BRAW settings, and then compress them in Media Encoder which uses the settings of the sidecar and render the clips into ProRES HQ. I then had to individually relink the clips in After Effects, but then I could get the render to work with the correct settings applied. https://vimeo.com/741498664/af0b62f955 I am still in contact with autokroma's support, so hopefully this will get resolved, but they are having trouble recreating the errors on their end.

Blackmagic RAW and ProRES RAW compared in video by Sherif Mokbel and article by Jakub Han at CineD

https://youtu.be/qPB6wrVKHiw I learned about this excellent video from an article by Jakub Han at CineD, which goes into the differences between the 2 formats. It is well worth checking out the differences. And it seems that ProRes RAW does seem better, but it doesn't work in DaVinci Resolve, and BRAW works better in DaVinci Resolve. So it depends on how you are finishing, and I would assume ProRES RAW works better in Final Cut Pro X.

Blackmagic Design announces Pocket Cinema Camera 6K Pro

  Blackmagic Design has announced the Blackmagic Pocket Cinema 6K Pro camera, and even more impressively released it at the previous price of the BMPC 6K $2499. This camera includes the same sensor as the 6K camera, but with some features people have been clamoring for. First off is the articulated screen which can tilt up or down (though not to the side for vlogging) which is hdr and 1500 nit brightness. This is huge, there have been kits to upgrade the screen in previous models, but this is built in.Next are 3 motorized ND filters with infared, including, 2, 4 and 6 stops of ND. The battery has been changed to the larger Sony NP-F570 battery, which should provide longer run times and the Battery Pro grip which adds 2 more batteries doesn't replace the internal battery and lets the 2 batteries in it to be swapped while still recording.Then we have an additional mini xlr input, for 2 mini xlr inputs. And it will now include the color science 5 from the 12K camera, though that is also coming to the 6K and 4K models.And you can aslo add for $499 an EVF eye piece with glass lenses that will shut off the touch screen when in use.All this does mean the camera is even larger than the previous 6k model (which will make it interesting for stabilizers), and people are already complaining about the still having an ef mount and not the new rf mount at least. I don't see any of that as a problem, this is a very impressive camera, and I want one.

I missed this, the Blackmagic URSA Mini Pro 12K Data rates are insane!

Ok so I missed this first looking at the URSA Mini Pro 12k, but they have listed the data rates for it's video settings in the tech specs and they look great!Storage RatesStorage rates based on 24 frames per second.12K - 12,288 x 6480Blackmagic RAW 5:1 - 578 MB/sBlackmagic RAW 8:1 - 361 MB/sBlackmagic RAW 12:1 - 241 MB/sBlackmagic RAW 18:1 - 160 MB/sBlackmagic RAW Q0 - 241 to 578 MB/s 1Blackmagic RAW Q1 - 144 to 361 MB/s 2Blackmagic RAW Q3 - 96 to 241 MB/s 3Blackmagic RAW Q5 - 72 to 180 MB/s 48K - 8192 x 4320Blackmagic RAW 5:1 - 258 MB/sBlackmagic RAW 8:1 - 161 MB/sBlackmagic RAW 12:1 - 107 MB/sBlackmagic RAW 18:1 - 72 MB/sBlackmagic RAW Q0 - 107 to 258 MB/s 1Blackmagic RAW Q1 - 64 to 161 MB/s 2Blackmagic RAW Q3 - 43 to 107 MB/s 3Blackmagic RAW Q5 - 32 to 81 MB/s 46K - 6144 x 3240Blackmagic RAW 5:1 - 145 MB/sBlackmagic RAW 8:1 - 91 MB/sBlackmagic RAW 12:1 - 61 MB/sBlackmagic RAW 18:1 - 40 MB/sBlackmagic RAW Q0 - 61 to 145 MB/s 1Blackmagic RAW Q1 - 36 to 91 MB/s 2Blackmagic RAW Q3 - 24 to 61 MB/s 3Blackmagic RAW Q5 - 18 to 45 MB/s 44K - 4096 x 2160Blackmagic RAW 5:1 - 65 MB/sBlackmagic RAW 8:1 - 41 MB/sBlackmagic RAW 12:1 - 27 MB/sBlackmagic RAW 18:1 - 18 MB/sBlackmagic RAW Q0 - 27 to 65 MB/s 1Blackmagic RAW Q1 - 16 to 41 MB/s 2Blackmagic RAW Q3 - 11 to 27 MB/s 3Blackmagic RAW Q5 - 8 to 20 MB/s 4Recording FormatsBlackmagic RAW Q0, Q1, Q3, Q5, 5:1, 8:1, 12:1 and 18:1 at 12,288 x 6480, 11,520 x 6480, 12,288 x 5112, 7680 x 6408, 8192 x 4320, 7680 x 4320, 8192 x 3408, 5120 x 4272, 6144 x 3240, 4096 x 2160, 3840 x 2160, 4096 x 1704 and 2560 x 2136 stored as 12 bit non-linear with film, extended video, video or custom 3D LUT embedded in metadata.1 Constant Quality setting Q0 storage rates quoted are indicative only, based on a 5:1 - 12:1 compression range.2 Constant Quality setting Q1 storage rates quoted are indicative only, based on a 8:1 - 20:1 compression range.3 Constant Quality setting Q3 storage rates quoted are indicative only, based on a 12:1 - 30:1 compression range.4 Constant Quality setting Q5 storage rates quoted are indicative only, based on a 16:1 - 40:1 compression range.Actual storage rates are entirely dependent on image subject matter.These data rates are insanely low, wow! Honestly this blows the Canon R5 and R6 out of the water. Wow, will this move down to the BMPCC? Lets hope so!

BlackMagic updates the Ursa Mini Pro to 12K and improves BlackMagic RAW to deal with it

Wow, so BlackMagic has done it again and instead of going full throttle with 8K like Canon, has jumped right to 12K for $9.999 with the new 12K Ursa Mini Pro! And with a full 35mm sensor that has no pixel binning and can supposedly do different resolutions with the full sensor. Wow, will have to see it, but if so that is really impressive. And they showed playback with BlackMagic RAW 12K on an Apple Macbook, and they said that Metal is in fact ahead of windows right now.I have to admit I was hoping for a full frame BPCC 6K or 8K, but this is a very impressive high end camera. Wonder what it is going to do for high end cinema.