David_Harry
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Hi.
Philip most certainly knows what he's doing and made a very well produced video. But he did have a bias toward the GoPros, which is expected as he knows them better than the Action.
Plus he also passed a few personal opinions as technical fact, which was pushing it a bit. There were certain things he said, such as the log profiles, which were purely personal taste but he did blur certain lines as technical fact.
There are certain technical limitations that both the Action and the GoPros share that make both of them struggle to do certain colour functions. Neither are 10 bit, neither record a minimum of 4:2:2 chroma sub sampling, neither record rec.2020, neither record HDR and neither record effective log gamma curves outside of standard rec.709.
The reason I mention all that is because without these things neither are going to be effective for acquiring footage suitable for proper grading. And because of that, neither are particularly technically better than the other with regard pure technical ability to hold enough information and therefore the choice is personal taste and not technical ability.
As for the codec. The lack of h.265 on the Action will make no difference what so ever either, as per the reasons above. Plus many NLEs and playback devices will struggle to playback h.265 anyway, let alone manipulate it.
Like I said, Philip is excellent at what he does but he does have very strong personal tastes and opinions which shouldn't be read as technical fact.
And let's not forget that the Action and GoPro are both very small cameras with small sensors, small lenses and while they outdo themselves as far as built in processing ability is concerned and are both great at what they do. They are only action cameras and as such will never compete with certain functionalities of proper pro video cameras. And in the global scheme of things they are both in reality cheap cameras that perform way beyond their prices.
There's only so much right now that these types of cameras are able to do.
Cheers,
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