Steve M.

I think I grasp that. So, anything coming out of the NX1 externally would be uncompressed, which throws the H.265 out of the equation. I guess all of which is a moot point since the NX1 doesn't offer a clean 1080 output. At the price the Star is going for, It would only make sense to record to that an avoid the transcode, especially for the slo-mo aspect. Let me guess, the camera wouldn't output the slo-mo!?

​It does help, Thank you! The question still remains, Hypothetically, if NX1 did output clean 1080, and you hooked to a Ninja Star, which states it records 10bit 4:2:2, so if I hook the NX1 up would it record 8bit? The benefit is not transcoding the H.265, That in my mind is worth the cost.

I have a stupid question that is probably common knowledge for most of you, but here goes... I've read the NX1 does not output a clean HDMI 1080p signal, okay I understand that part, but lets say it did, and you wanted to use a Ninja Star to record that 1080p to ProRes. The Ninja Star records to 10bit 4:2:2 in all the ProRes flavors, however, the NX1 shoots at 8bit, correct? So, my question is, if that's true and you could record to the Ninja, are you getting a true 10bit 4:2:2 file? It would seem to me that's like importing ProRes proxy files into your NLE and outputting to ProRes HQ, you gain nothing in that uprez. Second question, the NX1 records to H.265, would the NInja Star even record that codec? Does the Shogun record that codec? I appreciate your input!

​That makes two of us! 1.) if the licensing fees for these codec are reasonable Can't we just steal the codecs that need to be of a reasonable cost? I was being facetious of course!

​Can't we just steal it!!!!!!!!!?

Without seeming to look like an idiot, what the hell does any of this mean in terms of how it can or cannot be used right now for the H.265 transcode?

I agree, it's almost eerie, perhaps you are right, listen in on customers via their own devices....brilliant, I'm glad I thought of that! I don't know what your take is, but I'm thinking Samsung had a meeting sometime ago, after looking at this market, and decided they could take a chuck of it by giving people what they want, or at the very least, giving it one hell of an effort.

I've read this newest update doesn't remedy the floating line issue that some of the NX1 users are experiencing. I only hope Samsung fixes this soon before adding features that we all want, but first things first. If they can do that, they are going to win over an even larger portion of this market.

Samsung releases yet another NX1 firmware update 1.21 this morning. I've been accused of being a Samsung fan boy, which is ridiculous, but I will admit, I am definitely a fan of a company that not only listens, but acts upon it. You have to stop and wonder what they're going to do for an encore.

​No, not true, it was merely an observation. I would hardly call arguing over nothing a passion for knowledge. Read through those posts, there's nothing constructive about it. Although, I will admit, everyone is entitled to their opinion. That's all you'll hear about this from me, I certainly don't want to hurt your feelings in your quest for knowledge!

​That's intelligent. I ask myself that same question, why are you here?

​Precisely. Yet, you'll read on and on how the camera won't do this or that, and that is exactly what those individuals are shooting.

I have a question, what the hell are you guys all shooting that's so significant that you'll sit here and split hairs over DR, gamma, this, that, and the other thing? Are you producing a multi-million dollar blockbuster, or, rather is it something like some shots of a trash can, may be the sky and a few trees posted on Vimeo? You take one persons findings and opinion of a camera and suddenly you're all high ranking DP's of the world, trash talking this and that because it isn't 10 bit, it doesn't have enough DR, it doesn't compare to this camera or that camera. Who cares? Show me something you've done that's so significant that I should care. I'll be waiting!

​Because there are those jobs that I just don't need a 4K master, and the added resolution of 2.5, the little bit of reframe of 2.5, the faster transcode from H.265 with 2.5, that's why!

​Exactly. I wished they would have stuck to that 2.5K spec. Bummer.

I get the H.265 codec is the future, but man I wish this offered H.264 recording as well, if that's even possible to have both? Or, perhaps the 2.5k isn't possible without the H.265? It would be a nice B cam for the NX1

I did try that option and when I compared the 1080P & ProRes LT (same as source) 4K image, sized the same in QT7, to my eye the 4K sized down was sharper. So, the real test is transcoding to 1080P then seeing, is it the same as doing a 4K to 2K timeline edit, as far as resolution output. Yes, of course you lose the re-frame capability with 1080P, but save a lot of transcoding time, if you do not care about a 4K master. ​

Concerning multiple passes, you're probably right about that and for good reason, a 3-4 minute NX1 H.265 clip transcoded in iffmpeg, you could practically grow a beard before that would be complete!

Okay, I'll buy into that, makes sense. So, basically this guy has figured out a series of settings that make for a faster transcode, which you could duplicate within Iffmpeg IF you knew that particular code? Good luck, getting that from iffmpeg, they are extremely vague in there replies to the use of their product, which isn't a bad thing, it's just a thing. Bottom-line, even if it is a front end to iffmpeg........it's free!

​Meaning, you've tested it and are getting faster speeds? Put it this way, every person that has this, posts the same comments, it's way faster than any other transcoder at present, and I can confirm that on my end.

​Okay, then explain why it's significantly faster than iffmpeg on my MAC? Image quality? I can't see a difference.

​Damn, I guess in all my enthusiasm, I did forget that link, sorry about that! http://sourceforge.net/p/rockymountainsmovieconverter/wiki/Home/ Andrew, let me know what you think about this application.

Ran across a new FREE H.265 transcoder created by an NX1 user. I would not have believed this if I didn't try it myself. Here's the scoop; a one minute UHD - 4K, 23.98 file, converted to ProRes 422 LT., this on a 2009 iMAC, 2.8GHz- i7, 16 GB RAM. Transcode time; 3 minutes - 51 seconds @2.71GB output file. I don't know about your experience with this file, but that is 3-1/2 times faster than iFFMPEG. The file looks clean to my eye, as clean as anything from any other transcoder.

​Okay, you'd know better than I would, but just for laughs, give Bigasoft's video converter a try. I'm only trying the trail version but it would seen that encodes faster.

Well, I did give the Brorsoft converter a try, and the only thing It will output is the audio. Can't get it to output video? Perhaps operator error, but everything looks set correct.