From the course: Raw & Log Video Production Workflows

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What is raw video recording?

What is raw video recording?

- Raw recording has a lot of origins in the same sort of movement with Raw photography. - Mhm. - And that was the desire to bypass some of the processing that the camera did. Now, this processing used to be done for technical reasons. The storage, the memory cards we used were just too expensive; not to do it like if you were buying memory cards that were, yeah, 512 megabytes, not gigabytes, you know, and you're popping those in, you wanted to get more that five pictures on that card before you had to call it a day. So, what happened was manufacturers made a lot of compromises due to computer processing power and storage limitations, but I think that this is one of the areas that we've seen huge growth in, actually two areas; the ability for high capacity storage has boomed. - Of course. - And the ability for computers to actually handle these files has caught up in many ways, so because of that, camera manufacturers are saying: "Although, we don't have to make compromises anymore, we…

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