scooterlam
Second Officer
Flight distance : 4626 ft
United States
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Hey there - next time 'reply' to quote my posts so I get a notification. Otherwise I didn't know you asked me a direct question.
Regarding your question:
Yes I ALWAYS shoot in the LOG mode with custom settings. Yes it matters. The less contrast/saturation/sharpness the heavily compressed h264 codec has baked in if you choose to shoot in the auto settings, the better. If you're not interested in making the most out of your footage, the default auto settings will suffice and look "OK" -- I however like to take my footage to the next level and determine how I want it to look vs what the camera guesses. Similar to shooting RAW vs Jpeg in still photography.
Regarding your recording/offload/delivery question: Essentially yes. 4K 30fps for a little additional frames for stability. Off load them onto an external or your HD. Don't import directly from the SD card (not sure it matters but its not a good habit). Rough cut your footage on a new 4K UHD 3840 x 2160 23.98 timeline, color correct, color grade, export in Apple Prores Proxy in the same resolution as the timeline. Then upload to vimeo/youtube and let them compress.
Remember always shoot highest resolution possible even if you plan to down-res your footage. For a 1080p timeline just create a 1080p timeline at 23.98 and adjust your footage to either fill, fit, or you can reframe due to the extra pixels you have to work with. Export from there.
It never helps to export files multiple times as they are getting compressed each time you do that. Do everything in FCPx regardless if you're doing 1080 or 4K or whatever.
Hope this helps.
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