![]() Blender is a wonderful story and a wonderful team but it’s truly the unicorn in the FOSS software space. > also the industry adopting Blender is a clear sign that a product being open source plays a big role for adoption Same for game engines, people preferred open source solutions for decades, the closed proprietary ones all died (minus Unity but they provide source in exchange for a license, wich i believe will be made fully open in few years, they will have no choice)įor existing business it is understandable if they started closed, and use themselves licensed code/productīut for new businesses, if you don't consider open source, you start with a massive disadvantage, worse, it makes you impossible to grow I no longer use proprietary software for that reason, whenever possible i decide to use one that is open sourceĪlso the industry adopting Blender is a clear sign that a product being open source plays a big role for adoption This is why i dropped Sublime Text for a different editor, i was waiting years for them to fix a feature that annoy me so bad (file preview when you search), and it still not fixed, closed source mean i can't do shit That's why prores Raw is only acquired through external devices."īeing open doesn't mean it becomes free to use, you can still sell your licensesīeing open source allows your users to participate in the development, fixing things, and adding new features the company wouldn't have done themselves because: lack of budget, or "too risky" The reason being is that Black Magic does that to get around RED' RAW patent of pure internal RAW. > ".partial debayering theory regarding BRAW. However, it must be taken into consideration that ProRes RAW is not natively available in Resolve." And external BRAW is less accurate (in terms of White Balancing) compared to internal BRAW from Blackmagic cameras. > "According to Sherif’s analysis, ProRes RAW is more… real raw than BRAW. In a sentence, ProRes RAW has defeated BRAW" ![]() To make the story short, ProRes RAW demonstrated much better (and real) raw compared to BRAW. Furthermore, Sherif has used a blue channel as an X-ray to explore macro-blocking that appears in highly compressed media (H.265 for instance), and that compression is presented by pixels structure that indicates an unbaked image that came straight out of the sensor. > "Sherif analyzed noise levels by comparing ProRes RAW and BRAW and found that ProRes RAW has significantly higher noise levels than the external BRAW. Because the L lenses have the same mount, you can do some pretty crazy shit like putting a f4.0 600mm prime on an Ursa and shoot film with it. For example the f1.2 50mm prime is a brilliant multi use film lenses that you can use on the Ursa and get amazing results - and it's quite a bit cheaper than a cine lens and uses the same mount as the cine lenses. ![]() Canon Cine lenses are great - but Canon L lenses are also bloody good and excellent value for money. Standardize on a lens with a big flange distance that is adaptable to a lot of cameras if you move from renting to actually buying lenses. You will not be able to use those lenses on many other cameras that have lens adapters because the flange distance is too small - so you simply can't adapt them. Don't make the mistake of getting a nice collection of Sony E mount lenses or another mirrorless standard with a short flange distance. I know a lot of folks reading this are budget concious. We standardized on Canon cine lenses which work great on the Ursas - and the cameras are adaptable to PL mount if you ever want to rent lenses. And the grade is really where you figure out how good your camera actually is - and since the folks who make the grading software make the cameras and developed the partial debayered raw format they use, the product you get is pretty damn good! You essentially have Hollywood quality gear for a fraction of the price, and you're using the same color grading workflow that Hollywood actually uses - since Resolve is the standard for color grading for big films. So with Ursas you get 14.5 stops of dynamic range, raw and the Resolve workflow which braw integrates into beautifully. A new ARRI is $20 to $30K although I haven't looked lately. And just FYI the 12K Ursa dropped from about $11K to about $6K a few months after launch, so just be aware that that kind of thing happens. ![]() Was a conscious decision to vertically integrate this. Yes we were working with a company that was doing a great job but barely staying afloat, so I hired some of the team, and the rest had a soft landing.
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