canon Eos C200 or other Cine camera for action

[Josh Dahlberg]

Hi Richard,

Lovely dog. I have 18-80 and with practice you should be able to get nicely stabilised shots without resorting to software (and that horrible jello effect) - the lens has good IS and it's not terribly long. A monopod may also help you. Software stabilisation is to be avoided.

The Raw Development software is only for preparing the footage - it's not where you do the grade. The type of adjustments you're talking about are to be made in Resolve. When you apply even a strong grade with this you'll find the Raw footage (transcoded to prores) takes it in its stride, whereas the 8bit 420 mp4s start to fall apart with even a moderate grade (banding, macro blocking etc). There's so much more information / dynamic range in the Raw files to work with. To use your photo analogy, it's like applying some heavy adjustments in Lightroom to a jpg vs a Raw file.

Even without a grade, you should be able to see a difference in the rendering in scenes like this one, more organic, detailed grass for instance, and richer tonality in the blacks of your dog's hair.