On my latest show I tested shooting uncompressed for vfx, especially for
screens.  And counter intuitively the prores actually plays a little nicer,
at least on the old lenses we are shooting with.  The uncompressed was
giving us a hard edge ringing that had to be stomped down while the prores
softened it out and we could pull keys more efficiently.

Justin
On Sep 23, 2011 9:41 AM, "Aaron Weintraub" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Alexa also has an option to record the actual raw uncompressed data
> straight to a hard drive as 2880x1620 .ari files, which is the true
> native format of the camera. It's not so popular because you have to
> lug around (and pay for) an extra storage unit, but any projects with
> significant VFX will insist on it. The Prores encoding is done on-board
> and saved in realtime to lightweight flash cards, but even with 4:4:4:4,
> there are definitely compression artifacts in the quicktimes that aren't
> there in the raw files, not to mention the down-res to 1920.
>
> -A
>
> On 9/22/2011 9:39 PM, Nick Guth wrote:
>> Confirmed. It is Apple ProRes4444
>> 1920x1080
>> 23.98
>> 278.55 mbits/s
>>
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