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divantoday at 7:35 AM0 repliesview on HN

While we're on topic, I've been using DaVinci with this camera for a slightly unusual hybrid process. With a good light and lens I shoot slow-mo video (240fps FullHD or 120fps 4K) with shutter speed of 1/1000. Then I can take any frame and save it as a photo directly from Davinci.

I wrote 2 scripts for that:

- first is for keyboard shortcut that automates "Switch to color tab, Grab a still, Save a still to folder, Switch back"

- second for more advanced workflow where I put markers on the frames I like, and then it uses Fusion's Saver node to save images as EXR

This flow is even faster than culling with Photo Mechanic. In both cases I get 10bit PNG or EXR images that I can import into the photo editor. Workflow is far from the perfect yet, as it might need some adjustment when working with Log profile or different FPS (for 2nd script).

But aside of giving me an option of "shooting" video+photos at the same time, it blows my mind that it's practically "shoot photos 240 times per second and choose later", and how good the end result is. The bitrate of video is 280Mbps (4:2:2, 10bit) and while video compression quality is not negligible, the resulting "still photos"'s quality is more than enough for social media purpose. Photo example [1]

[1] https://drive.google.com/file/d/13So6ZuVx3dn2jZCw7cm3LkbzydF...