[Adam Duguay] "Apparently the Camera that was used to shoot the footage was a high end Panasonic (full size) Camera. Apparently the video information from this camera has a wider color and luminance spectrum (higher then 100 Units of white) and when using a compressed format like the ProRes (HQ) codec, I'm limiting the information that I could potentially take advantage of if I had worked in a 8 or 10 bit completely uncompressed format."
Um, not exactly. We've been working with the Panasonic (full size) cameras for four years now. You lose nothing in the ProRes or ProRes HQ formats. In fact, Discovery Networks lists only three HD formats for their "Gold Level Programming." That is all the programming that gets top billing during Prime Time.
Uncompressed HD
Avid DNxHD
Apple ProRes HQ
In other words, the Apple ProRes codec gives you all the information you need for network broadcast HD. You can use ALL the luminance information from those cameras, which we do all the time here.
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