gojic
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G'day , I'm on a feature right now & we just recieved our X5R ( on an osmo ) & we are having some teething issues. Some of this is just first gen gremlins & some are feature requests I'd like to see in later versions.
X5R issues
When the dji go app is connected to the X5R the display is mirrorred so it's displaying right as left, but hit record or playback a clip & it reverts to the correct orientation. Linking the app to the X5 & the display behaves as normal without having changed any settings.
When the X5R is turned off it reverts from the 24 frames we selected to 25, at least that's what Cinelight says, loading the same footage into resolve after importing the CineDNG it reads as 24. Is there a frame rate switch or is the X5R not correctly informing the DJI Go App that it's 24fps ?
The colour space options selectable in the Go App are those LUT's applied only to the proxy's or does that affect the RAW recording ? Again you would think that it wouldn't but there's no documentation stating what the options actually do.
CineLight
Version 0.9.9 ( the version that came on the SSD ) reads all footage on the ssd & imported to a drive as a monochromatic pink (as seen in this thread) , the scopes in the app however show normal colour. It loads into Davinci fine. Version 0.9.26 off the website loads the images correctly
screenshot from linked thread
The lack of checksum or logging options on the transfer is terrifying. Sure it may do it internally but I as the user can't see it, & if there was every an issue with the footage I can't go to the checksum or the log to show that it wasn't my fault, so like I said terrifying.
When transferring footage CineLight shows time remaining on the clip not time remaining if you have multiple clips transfering. If that wasn't a possibility then maybe a transfer speed would do so we can do the math ourselves.
User Documentation & First Time Experience
For a Pro product that costs as much as this does & will be used in high end productions the documentation available for the CineLight & X5R is woefully thin. A lot of the intiial setup has been trial and error which when your burning someone elses money just isn't acceptable for a "Pro" product.
There is also a strong need for a post production white paper or tutorials that lays out best practice for offloading, transcoding & getting the RAW into post production packages like AVID, Davinci etc. I've worked with ArriRAW, RED all of which have excellent resources but this was my first time with a CineDNG producing camera & having a trusted source demonstrating how best to work with the files would have been a real confidence booster.
Overall I love what this camera does & I'd say the X5R will have the same impact that the release of the Canon 5D had on the industry. If DJI wants this product to be taken seriously then addressing some of these issues would go a long way.
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