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Hello, In a month or I will be making a video-clip with 2 friends. I currently own a canon 6d which I’ve been doing projects with. Even though it’s a great camera I want to try something new to get a better image and better features. Because it’s a passion project we have almost zero budget. BUT we do want to rent a camera. I see it as an investment so I can learn to work with ‘real’ videocamera’s, instead of DSLRs. I’ve been pondering about 2 camera’s the Blackmagic Cinema Camera 2.5k and the Sony FS700, The BM because it has a great image (DR), cheaper to rent, no adapter needed for my lenses and great gradeable image (from what I can tell). The Sony mainly because of slow-mo. Even though slow motion is widely overused imo in videoclips, there are more than a few shots in this project that would benefit from slow-mo and give it a higher production value. I want to use Davinci Resolve for color correction. I’m completely new to it and see this project as a studycase to learn the, from what I hear, complex program. There’s no deadline to project, so I can play with it for weeks. There are a couple of question I still have and could use some recommendations/thoughts. How gradeable are the internal images from the FS700? As far I can see it has the same limitations as DSLR has when recording internal, 8-bit 4:2:0. However, because it is a different codec, does that make any difference? If I would to should on the BMCC, I still would be shooting on ProRes and not RAW. From what I hear it is mostly handy for greenscreen, tracking and difficult DR situations, which our project doesn’t include. We could also rent an external recorder for the Sony, but the Sony is already almost twice as expensive to rent. I don’t think we have that budget. Then there’s the other bigger concern which I only stumbled upon today: codecs, programs and PC. Since I run a windows computer, I can’t export in ProRes from Premiere Pro for Resolve. I however really want to start to learn Resolve on a serious project. The Sony on the other hand records internally in AVCHD which, from what I understand, is not supported by Resolve….. *sigh*. I’ve been googling for a couple of hours now, but I see no clear way to edit BM ProRes footage (not RAW) in PP and colorgrade in Resolve with no quality loss or to edit Sony’s codec natively in PP and export it without quality loss for Resolve. I don’t know how for I’m gonna push the image in post, since I have no experience in this department. But still, the two questions remains. How will the internal FS700 manage in post and is there an easy way to work with either BM or Sony footage on a PC with Premiere Pro and Resolve?