What is best quality for time in RedRushes

[Michael Neborak]

I usually use a Debayer Quality of half res high, and I have tried it with full res as well. I really don't see any noticeable difference in quality, but the render time is much faster for the half res high. Anyone else have the same opinion, or is using full much better?

Best Regards,
MLN

[MichaelP]

Depends on the source image and detail in it as well as your final deliverable. If presenting on a 60 foot screen you might want the full quality - if only HD, then it will be hard to tell the difference in many cases.

Michael

[Uli Plank]

You'll want a full decode with low-light footage, in particular if the camerafolks used longer exposure times than 1/24th. For anything else, the difference is minimal.

[BigLu]

Just finsihed testing this all week.

I go with a Debayer Quality of half res high. Renders seem to be well beyond 60% faster than full quality Debayer.
The full quality seems to have less noise in the darks and has a slightly smoother finish on edges.
It also treated the skin a touch better.
Due to the fact that we are finishing in 1080p and not going to film I am happy with this setting
If we were going to film I would go to Full Debayer.

So basically the exact same thing all 3 of you have said.

[Ravi Kiran]

We are also finishing our film at 1080p, so would those settings in RedRushes (Apple ProRes scaled to 1920x1080, half res high debayer) be good enough to take the footage into color correction and vfx?

[Graeme Nattress]

Half high is practically perfect for HD use, unless the scene is very low light when a downsampled 4k extraction will be very slightly better.

Graeme