carltsang125

Thank you all! It seems that the extra 2 bit of prores over in camera H264 not that siginificant for color grading. And I don't shoot a lot of motion, so I can skip the recorder. Thank you for your advice! It is very helpful to me! I have already bought A6300. Following your advice I will buy more portable lens so that I can always put in the bag, so I can easily shoot it at the right time! And try to use premiere pro as good as I can.

Hello everyone! I am a newbie, just a hobby video shooter (for daily life and family only), and hope you could give me some advice. Thanks in advance! I want to ask a question. short version: Does Prores video have any advantage over h264/xavc on color grading? I shoot photos in raw. And I think Prores video is like raw image in photography, h264 is like jpg. Color grading to Prores (raw) is much better than grading H264 (jpeg). Is this correct? Long version: As A6300 come out , I think of shooting video for daily life and my family. While I love a6300's high quality 4k , sony's color is not that great in my opinion. So I want to "convert" it to more pleasing canon-like, or nikon-like, fuji-like. I have seen people grading the xavc/h264 footage out of camera, but it seems take a lot of work to get a natural look. May be the reason is that H264 is like jpeg in photography, contain too little color information for grading? I start to think of buying Shogun/Assasin, and record the 4k externally in prores format. I hope that prores would behave like raw image in photography, the color is easier to correct, and I can apply a color conversion preset and the footage color can change easily and naturally. So this is my question: does prores have advantage on color grading, like what I think? If that works, I will buy a ninja to record 1080p prores externally. (Shogun and Assassin too expensive) According to the following video, recording in 4k mode and choosing 1080p output, that 1080p is very sharp, like downsampled 4k. With A6300 ($1000) + ninja 2 ($295) I can get very high quality 1080p prores video.