High Efficiency Video Coding

And then codec support is the next thing.

If you're playing it and you don't see any video or you don't see or hear any audio, well, if it's a video problem, well, you probably don't have H.264 or H.265 codecs, which is not supported in the free model.

If you get the Studio, you can use these codecs.

If you don't have the Studio, you can't.

There's times you want to pick that up, but you're like, I don't need B-Raw for everything.

So then I need another camera that just shoots H.265. Yeah.

If you want a cinema camera, FX3, for example.

Like you could shoot on stuff on that, but then if you want some type of raw, then you're kind of, unless you're doing externally, you're kind of out of luck right there as well.

I have one from Alejandro that solves I think a Problem that many of us likely have, which is storage on our iPhones.

He made an app called HEVCut, and it basically is an app to go through and find, well, it does a few things, but the core thing is find large video files on your device, and especially things that are in older codecs like H.264. and convert them over into H-E-I-V?

H-E-I-F,

yeah.

So I started using the ZR, but then the red R3D was too big.

The H.265. Well, hold on, hold on, hold

on, because we're going to get into your issues with life.

We're going to get there.

They buy red, they figure out a way to squeeze some in there, and it goes well.

And now, I will say, if they do everything that they promised...

Give us the better H.265 with Log3 G10.

If they're able to give us OpenGate, if they're able to make these additional, like, ads to this camera in a reasonable amount of time, this will be, for sure, the best camera under $2,500.

I was concerned about storage, and again, the, the best compression, the best video, the best everything was the iPhone, iPhone 14 Pro Max.

Even using Blackmagic, using the HEVC, the High Efficiency Video Codec, that one still, I mean, it's, it captured a little bit more data overall, but not to a, a very noticeable extent.

Uh, I, so I ran these all through, uh, Claude and got it to give me, um, um, a bit of a, a summary of everything.

It gave me a, a compress- not a, what do you call it? Like a text file with all the specs, but then also a comparison spreadsheet or a comparison shot list of all the different cameras, uh, we have tested or all the different lenses, the different, um, uh, the different, uh, compressions, the different lighting as well, and yeah, first of all, daylight conquers.

Those raw file sizes are ridiculous.

Now, if the ZR would have had better H.265 performance now, log 310, sharper than what the current H.265 is, then yeah, that would have been the camera that I went with.

But it's just not the tool for the job.

So that's the reason why I'm leaning towards the S9.

So when recording video of others or perhaps yourself, you know that the camera is actually recording.

And as for video, this camera can record H.265 10-bit capture in addition to N-Log and N-Raw directly to the SD card.

And for most people, that's going to be plenty.

The new Nikon Z5 Mark IIc is available to pre-order right now from Roberts Camera and elsewhere for $1,399.99 US, body only, in black or silver, by the way, and it can be bundled with a 24-50mm f4-6.3 for $300 more.

You have to have the question and the answer, essentially, in order to teach it to reverse engineer how it arrived at that answer across every vector in the transformer.

In looking at that, it became clear to me that this was a brilliant technology developed by people who were brilliant at these researchers and scientists who understood and built something new, but that they had no understanding of the domain expertise of filmmaking to the point where they didn't even understand that native filmmaking, unless you're scraping H.265 clips from the internet, which is how most of these were trained, actually comes with a very specific and ordered data set.

like native, you don't even have to caption it.

It exists, right, in the raw format.