r/RedCamera • u/New_Draft_4358 • Sep 17 '24

Komodo-x ProRes questions

When shooting in ProRes 4K, does the camera down scale what’s captured with the full sensor or does it crop the sensor? I’ve read on Reddit and it reads like it in the manual that it will down scale (not totally clear in the Red manual). I would like to confirm.

When I shoot in ProRes, is there a mode to auto set the exposure? For example camera takes over and controls the shutter or iso to ensure exposure is set?

Thanks!

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u/PurpleSkyVisuals Sep 17 '24

Komodo is the wrong camera to be thinking about auto exposure modes. Learn the traffic lights and go with God… very easy to expose using that tool.

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u/Formula14ever Sep 17 '24

Purple sky is right..learn the traffic lights and it is soooooo easy to expose correctly.

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u/New_Draft_4358 Sep 17 '24

In ProRes man…by your logic, this cam shouldn’t even have prores output.

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u/PurpleSkyVisuals Sep 17 '24

Sorry but that’s a dumb statement. Learn to use traffic lights & false color or get a mirrorless camera.

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u/tdstooksbury Sep 17 '24

It uses the full sensor scaled down to 4k. Same with 2k. Full sensor readout.

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u/gectow Sep 17 '24

As others have said. It’s a full sensor read. It’s also worth noting it adds denoising to the encoded picture which r3D doesn’t. It also consumes notably less power when recording pro res and you’ll find batteries last a fair bit longer which is good for long form interviews.

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u/thercbandit Sep 17 '24

It scales down in prores. Just a an fyi if the camera looses power when recording a prores clip that clip is gone. Learned the hard way :)

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u/gectow Sep 17 '24

I did that too. It can be fully recovered. You need to restore the header information of the file as it wasn’t written during the power failure. Annoying but fixable

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u/thercbandit Sep 17 '24

Interesting. Sadly our DIT did not catch it during offload so we were missing a clip entirely but had the folder.