Atomos and FCP support ProRes RAW for EVA1 and VariCam LT - press release

v90 SD cards support 90mb/s minimum write speed. That's about 700mbps. I believe ProRes RAW is 480?

So technically, if GH5s and EVA1 supported ProRes RAW in the camera firmware, the v90 SD cards should be able to handle the data rates without much issue. Of course, the v90 sd cards end up being more expensive than SSDs - and smaller max capacity to boot - so it's not a cheap prospect. At least not as of today.

But as v90 sd card prices come down and capacities go up, my understanding is that it should be feasible for GH5s and/or EVA1 to unlock an internal RAW recording option either via ProRes RAW or a new propriety RAW codec developed by Panasonic. What if they came up with a 600mbps RAW codec?

Crazy days. In 2-3 years time we could very well be seeing a GH6/EVA1s with internal RAW direct to v90 SD cards.
 
filmguy123 said:
But as v90 sd card prices come down and capacities go up, my understanding is that it should be feasible for GH5s and/or EVA1 to unlock an internal RAW recording option either via ProRes RAW or a new propriety RAW codec developed by Panasonic. What if they came up with a 600mbps RAW codec?

Crazy days. In 2-3 years time we could very well be seeing a GH6/EVA1s with internal RAW direct to v90 SD cards.
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At 5.7K 24fps 10-bit raw the 600mbps rate would be a compression ratio of ~9:1. This is doable, and can be made to look acceptable, if not great. At 60fps, this would be a compression ratio of ~22:1. This won't look pretty. Also need to add to these ratios for 12-bit raw.

There might be legal complications too. I am not a lawyer, but Red's patents sound like they might have patented in-camera raw compression at compression ratios higher than 6:1.
 
Alex Roz said:
And it would differentiate the Varicam LT from the EVA1 which is overshadowing the LT these days.
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Only because it is talked about far more. It's a more affordable unit. The LT has the V35 sensor. Its pound for pound one of the best images out there IMO.
 
Correct Noel, The HDMI standard does not support outputting Raw data stream, which the SDI connection can do on the EVA1. So you need to have a GH5S with a SDI outout, or the HDMI standard changed, neither one likely to happen anytime soon.

ProRes Raw should wind up having less compression than the internal recording codecs.

Cheers
 
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ProRes RAW HQ is about a 3:1 compression and ProRes RAW about 4:1. Not sure where you kids are getting your numbers but these are still very large data rates compared to All-I and especially LongGOP.
 
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