Re: for Indie Film

[Salvatore Interlandi] "But- do we lose color space by shooting in LONG GOP?"

The colour space of long GOP recording is 4:2:0 but there are so many scan lines in a 1920 X 1080 EX frame that you end up with more colour information to work with than many of today's other available 4:2:2 capable cameras that use smaller frame sizes.

[Salvatore Interlandi] "If I shoot with the EX 3 onto cards at 35mbs - 4:2:0 color space and then edit in that codec - could I regain that color space when I out put or go to color correction? "

No. You cannot regain colour information that's not there to begin with, but you can transcode your clips to an "I-frame" 4:2:2 codec like Apple's Pro Res or Panasonic's DVCPRO HD etc. so the colour information you do have available is retained during colour grading and various other re-compression stages before your final delivery.

If you record at 4:2:0 to the SxS Pro cards that is what you will end up with no matter how you transfer the footage to your NLE afterwards. The only way to get the 4:2:2 space is to record to an external device using the EX HD SDI port. Unfortunately in your case, and as I understand it, the EX does not stream 1080p 24 through SDI (according to the EX manual). A future firmware upgrade may change that, which would be great.

Hope this helps.

- Don