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I think it's highly unlikely it would be cropped based on the fact that there was and still is so much criticism of 4k 50/60p being cropped. It's pretty much the only criticism folks seem to be able to come up re. the entire S line apart from perhaps size/weight in the S1's. My only real criticism of the S1's is that each body was too different. The S1H from the S1R anyway... That used to really bug me when using that combo as the handling was so different. I'd also prefer it if they stuck with 6k and didn't go for 8k, but that's maybe just personal preference. And I quite like that size and weight if not using a grip or cage. My ideal S2H would be 10% smaller and 10% lighter, uncropped 6k 50p open gate and great AF. Job done, just a really solid pro unit. Which is what has put me off the S9, the lack of 'pro-ness' to it. Having thought on it even more, I've moved to an identical pair of S5II's as in; same cameras, same battery grips, same lens, same tripod, same audio, same settings. One has a white A written on it, the other a B. The set up for my needs is what I consider 'pro'. The A7RV with 3 option lenses for stills is just 'pro'. The S9 within that line up just does not match my definition of pro. Until I went out and shot it, I can't see how I couldn't see that prior, but some things seem so obvious in practice that didn't on paper. Hey ho.

With RAW you will probably be fine, I was able to edit Canon raw with my 2080TI up to 4K60FPS with no problem. Trying to edit highly compressed codecs is when the problems start. If you are switching to braw I would do that first before deciding if I needed a new editing workstation.

AMD is great for games and to save money on the CPU, but only Intel has QS and of course DR works best with NVIDIA's CUDA cores architecture. If you switch back to Intel make absolutely certain that the CPU you pick supports QS because many of them do not. I used this chart as my starting point for my CPU. From there I picked my MB and so on.

On paper that would be logical, but in practice it won't help at all. I had a 2080TI and DR was still pretty much unusable for Canon footage. Not a single NVIDIA GPU can accelerate H.265 422 10bit footage, you really need Intel's QS GPU to see a real performance increase. For non 422 H.265 10bit footage, you still won't get enough of a benefit to overcome stuttering for most 4K60FPS H.265 10 bit LongGOP footage until you get into the RTX series. I have spent years testing nearly every performance aspect possible for DR because time is money and my client's won't pay extra just because my editing workstation isn't fast enough.

Yes, that's pretty ridiculous. Reminds me of Peter Mckinnon in his review of the R5 when the overheating light came on in the middle of his review.....he explained it away saying of course it's going to get hot shooting 8K footage....it was his ONLY mention of overheating well before the R5 showed its true colors and there is no way that's the only time it overheated on him during his review of the camera. I have never watched one of his videos since.

I went through this for many years, it really depends on your source footage, my problem was that I kept throwing GPUs at it that could not HW accelerate H.265 422 which is what the Canon cameras use. The biggest performance increase that I gained was when I built my current custom system with an Intel QS capable integrated GPU and paired it with an RTX4080 GPU. I can now edit anything coming out of my C70, R7, or R5 up to 8K without proxies, caching or dropping frames until I start adding Fusion effects at which point it is hit or miss on whether I have to cache the Fusion effects or not. DR is fantastic, Fusion is nothing short of a nightmare when using complex transitions or effects at least for me even with my current system. So, for my workflow I edit the entire project, color grade it, then add the Fusion effects last. I doubt your SSDs are your bottleneck, I sometimes go back to old archived projects to get b-roll footage out of them and I also have a large b-roll library stored on very slow spinning NAS grade disks and DR never drops a frame while playing those old projects or b roll clips. I have even edited a few and re-exported them at a client's request and it feels just as fast as my NVME storage. Throughout my years of fiddling with DR I have also learned that taskmgr in W10 and W11 will not show you the bottleneck, the GPU will seem to be sleeping, so will your storage throughput and CPU will be around 30% but DR is still dropping frames or stuttering. The single biggest HW performance gain you can get hands down if you work with H.265 422 footage will be an Intel QS capable CPU, unfortunately to get that CPU you will need to upgrade pretty much everything (MB, RAM, CPU, PS, etc.). Below is my current system build. I found it better to build the system myself vs going with another prebuilt system. It has been flawless, and the way DR automatically switches between the QS GPU and the RTX GPU when rendering and playing back the project is perfect. Also, with the RTX4080 GPU I am able to export to AV1 which is the codec of the future. All of the main platforms have added AV1 support and at some point will switch over to it as the new standard. OS: Windows 11 DR: 19 Beta 5 Studio Case: Corsair 5000D Motherboard: ASUS ProArt Z790 CREATOR CPU: Core i9-13900K 24 Cores@3.0GHz RAM: 128GB of RAM Additional GPU: RTX 4080 Power Supply: Corsair RM1200x Drives: NVME OS Drive, NVME RAID 1 Storage Spaces Array Project Drive, NVME Storage Spaces RAID 1 Cache Drive, 10TB RAID 1 5400RPM WD NAS disks archive drive Typical Project Media: H.265 10 Bit 4:2:2 | Canon XF-AVC | Canon Cinema Raw LT If you aren't quite ready for such a big upgrade, the biggest performance increase that you can do right now for free without dealing with proxies or render cache is to set your timeline resolution to 720P then make sure that your export presets are set to 4K. For your render cache that's where your HD throughput is important, I would make sure to always set my render cache to the fastest non-OS disk(s) in your system, that will speed up generating the render cache and when playing from the render cache. Make sure that your render cache is also set to 720P for faster generation and playback. Keep in mind also that these days you cannot just upgrade your GPU, I tried that and ended up with it sitting in a box for a month while I researched and spec'd out a new system. The new GPUs need new Power Supplies, and take up a massive amount of room in the case, etc. For the newer RTX GPUs you are pretty much looking at a new system build.

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If so, I propose we call that move "the reverse Fuji," given that the GFX 100 II (and moreso, the 100s II) is a medium format camera in a somewhat large full frame body (the S II is smaller than a Z8 by about 5% and the 100II is smaller than a Z9 by about 15%, though the latter isn't a totally fair comparison since the Z9 has an integrated vertical grip).

Like when they elect a new Pope, he should do this when he has a confirmed rumour.

Funnily enough… Obviously, I won’t believe it until a breathless man abandons his family in a log cabin to rush out onto the balcony to do an emergency YouTube video about it but likely to be something S1/H/R related I would imagine. Unless the mad bastards are releasing an MFT camera in a medium format body of course.

It’d be good to have some solid rumours about the S1H’s successor. 6K 50p no crop please!