Tommaso Alvisi
Well-known member
If the scenes you have to shoot don't need the latitude of the Dragon, just shoot the F3 to the Atomos in 4:2:2 Prores 10bit (in SLOG).
Just be sure to WB correctly and shoot a Color Checker too, on the F3 is sometime difficult to achieve great skin tones and that could help the colorist.
Dragon: resolution, latitude, colors
F3: sensitivity, logistics, time
Just choose which ones are more important for you, the client and the job at hand.
I gotta agree with Mark tho, try to find a way to charge the client for this change of plans, if you still want to use your Dragon for example,
at least ask a day more to do the transcodes, the end result would be better than SDI recording.
Just be sure to WB correctly and shoot a Color Checker too, on the F3 is sometime difficult to achieve great skin tones and that could help the colorist.
Dragon: resolution, latitude, colors
F3: sensitivity, logistics, time
Just choose which ones are more important for you, the client and the job at hand.
I gotta agree with Mark tho, try to find a way to charge the client for this change of plans, if you still want to use your Dragon for example,
at least ask a day more to do the transcodes, the end result would be better than SDI recording.