Blackmagic Raw; Recording To Blackmagic Raw - Blackmagic Design Studio Camera 4K Plus Manual De Instalación Y Funcionamiento

Blackmagic RAW

Blackmagic Studio Cameras support the Blackmagic RAW file format. This format offers superior
image quality, wide dynamic range and a broad selection of compression ratios. Blackmagic
RAW features all the user benefits of RAW recording, but the files are very fast because most
of the processing is performed in the camera where it can be hardware accelerated by the
camera itself.
Blackmagic RAW also includes powerful metadata support so the software reading the files
knows your camera settings. If you like shooting in video gamma because you need to turn
around edits quickly and you don't have time for color correction, then this metadata feature
means you can select video gamma, shoot in video gamma, and the file will display with video
gamma applied when you open it in software. However underneath, the file is actually film
gamma and the metadata in the file is what's telling the software to apply the video gamma.
So what all this means is if you want to color grade your images at some point, then you have
all that film dynamic range preserved in the file. You don't have your images hard clipped in the
whites or the blacks, so you retain detail and you can color grade to make all your images look
cinematic. However, if you don't have time for color grading, that's fine because your images
will have the video gamma applied and look like normal video camera images. You are not
locked in on the shoot and you can change your mind later during post production.
Blackmagic RAW files are fast with the codec optimized for your computer's CPU and GPU.
This means it has fast smooth playback and eliminates need for hardware decoder boards,
which is important for laptop use. Software that reads Blackmagic RAW also gets the advantage
of processing via Apple Metal, Nvidia CUDA and OpenCL. Blackmagic RAW plays back at
normal speed like a video file on most computers, without needing to cache it first or lower the
resolution.
It's also worth mentioning that lens information is recorded in the metadata on a frame by frame
basis. For example, when using compatible lenses, any zoom or focus changes performed over
the length of a clip will be saved, frame by frame, to the metadata in the Blackmagic RAW file.

Recording to Blackmagic RAW

Blackmagic RAW works in 2 different ways. You have a choice to use either the constant bitrate
codec, or the constant quality codec.
Constant bitrate codec works in a similar way to most codecs. It tries to keep the data rate at a
consistent level and won't let the data rate go too high. This means even if you are shooting a
complex image that might need a bit more data to store the image, a constant bitrate codec will
compress the image harder to make sure the images fit within the space allocated.
This can be fine for video codecs, however when shooting Blackmagic RAW you really want to
ensure the quality is predictable. What would happen if the images you were shooting needed
more data, but the codec just compresses harder to make a specified data rate? It's possible
you could lose quality, but not be sure it's happening until you return from a shoot.
To solve this problem, Blackmagic RAW also has an alternative codec choice called constant
quality. This codec is technically called a variable bitrate codec, but what it's really doing is
allowing the size of the file to grow if your images need extra data. There is no upper limit on
the file size if you need to encode an image but maintain quality.
So Blackmagic RAW set to the constant quality setting will let the file grow as big as it needs to
be to encode your images. It also means the files could be larger or smaller depending on what
you are shooting.
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