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> ELI5 of what "RAW video" actually is Video with high bit count per pixel. A finished video is 8-bit per pixel, but RAW video contains 10 to 14 bits per pixel
by hebelehubele 2mo ago
> ELI5 of what "RAW video" actually is
Video with high bit count per pixel. A finished video is 8-bit per pixel, but RAW video contains 10 to 14 bits per pixel, often in a camera-specific LOG format which has very low contrast and saturation and looks washed out. All of this helps preserve much of the detail and allows creators to have more flexibility in post-processing.
- verall 2mo ago> has very low contrast and saturation and looks washed out When shown under naive linearization and compression rather than good tone mapping I totally get what you're saying and that is how film people talk about it but as a camera engineer it's annoying that people think washed out low sat is some intrinsic property of log.
- BLanen 2mo agoNo, its about (de-)bayering. It's before the concept of multi-color 'pixels'.