C300: C300MKII + ProRes Raw... Has anyone tried it?

[kohl-sudduth]

IIt biggest adjustment I had to make was learning out to expose properly to minimize noise since raw isn't de-noised out of the camera, but now Final Cut comes with a fast and easy to use de-noiser built in.

Thank you for this. Very helpful. How you are exposing to minimize noise? Before Prores Raw came out, I used a Shogun on a job because I wanted to expedite the post workflow, and avoid transcoding dailies to Prores for the editor. The noise was extreme. Unusable. Fortunately I also recorded internally so I could bury the Prores so the agency didn't see the footage and freak out. Anyway, I'd love to get usable Prores Raw out of the C300 Mark ii and would appreciate hearing more of your experience.

 

[cpreston]

Thank you for this. Very helpful. How you are exposing to minimize noise? Before Prores Raw came out, I used a Shogun on a job because I wanted to expedite the post workflow, and avoid transcoding dailies to Prores for the editor. The noise was extreme. Unusable. Fortunately I also recorded internally so I could bury the Prores so the agency didn't see the footage and freak out. Anyway, I'd love to get usable Prores Raw out of the C300 Mark ii and would appreciate hearing more of your experience.

Based on my tests, the best method is to shoot ETTR style with a maximum of 800 ISO for a high dynamic range scenes. If you have a lower dynamic range scene and you feel the scene is overexposed while viewing in monitor, then just lower the ISO until everything looks right, but make sure that you aren't clipping your whites accidentally or crushing blacks that you hope to reacquire in post. In general, anything below an ISO of 800 is just compressing the dynamic range and lowering the maximum IRE. In RAW, you can make something you shot at 200ISO look almost exactly like something shot at 800ISO. I noticed some difficulties in dealing with the expanding the blacks, but that might have been due to the limited control available in FCPX.

Basically, RAW shows how much work the Canon is doing to reduce at even moderate ISO, so it is best to either shoot at the lowest ISO possible if noise is an issue.