--I keep seeing Barry Goyette posting about ProRes being "incorrectly" implemented and the absolute need for in camera lens correction. Well in the real world that's not correct. You want as little baked in as possible, you want to be able to make those changes in post. There is no need to waste processor power on in camera lens corrections.
Aw AMG....why you gotta go be like that. I don't remember ever using the word "incorrectly". I may have said incomplete. Which is true. The ProRes implementation on the
Inspire 2 is incomplete -- doesn't include many of the frame rates, resolutions and aspect ratios the camera outputs. It doesn't provide for the lens corrections that are part of the Micro 4/3 system. It doesn't offer it's 4444 version in 12 bit. (if they are so correct...um, sorry.....complete...why would we hear (from DJI) that DJI is in the process of expanding the available options for ProRes..I mean why would they, if it's complete?)
As I've mentioned before, the last time we discussed this, the only place to apply lens corrections is to a raw image, and ideally an oversampled one -- whether that's in post, or whether that's during encoding (as Canon does with their Cinema Cameras, as DJI does with every camera in every codec except ProRes and every still camera made does when processing JPGs and video). Most importantly, for Micro 4/3 cameras and lenses which achieve their compactness through designs that involve "automatic" corrections because the distortions are large, complex,and impossible to correct accurately with available tools in video, any compressed output (h264, ProRes et al) should have Micro 4/3 profiles applied
during encoding. We've had quite a discussion about it over at RCGroups. With samples. Correction of these lenses in ProRes, in post
is time consuming, inaccurate, and destructive to the image. (We have confirmation from DJI that there is a technical limitation to the hardware, but that they are working on some sort of solution to provide corrections, in ProRes, from the camera).
I realize that you shoot an Alexa everyday. I don't know whether you shoot with an X5s. If you do, you know its not an Alexa, it's a Gh4-5, or something **** like it. Just like Panasonic and Olympus apply corrections automatically to their video and still files, so should the X5s.
(and DNxHD, MXF, Cineform and a number of other formats and wrappers, are all considered professional delivery formats, fwiw)