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Atomos Ninja V things to know...

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Atomos Ninja V things to know...

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  1. I have recently invested in a Ninja V to start using it with ProRes RAW on my Panasonic S5

    Surprisingly for me the product is buggy and has a lot of inconsistencies. So I thought of writing a few tips here

    1. Zebra are generally off. They can be off 5% to 10% and in some cases cannot be set for clipping. In general they are over the real value (you can check on the waveform Zebra set to 100% means waveform at 95%...)

    2. False color does not scale it is always on the same range 0 to 109 which means if you shoot a standard video signal or log it never ever shows red unlike other monitors like SmallHD. The solution is to use your own false colour LUT or to use a VLOG to Rec709 LUT and then use false colour on that

    3. There are issues with prores as this format only allows legal range but Ninja writes a full signal. Lately a legalise option has been supplied for users of all products except DaVinci that can be set to ignore the file flags. There is some level of deterioration with this option but is minimal

    4. The monitoring of HDR signals in the Atom HDR is an utter mess. The monitor is just a rec709 10.5 stop screen it does not support display of wide color gamut so when you try and monitor in PQpr HLG it scales the signal and the screen becomes so dark you cannot see a thing. It is better to use your own LUT (see point 2 above) and ignore those settings. 

    I hope this helps prospective and current users of this otherwise pretty decent product

     

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