Editing 5.5k raw video canon 1dx mark iii or r5??? Any problem with replay?

[haring]

Is there anybody who owns the new canon 1dx or r5 who has experience editing raw 4k, 5.5k video on computer? Some people claim that rendering footage and editing is extremely hard because of the computing demand of footage? Any real life experience? Raw is great but useless if computers are not up to the task...

 

[Kino]

I don't own a Canon 1DX or R5 but have experience with 4K video. This camera records a H.265 codec which will probably bring anything but a pretty beefy, new multi-core computer with a 8 Gig graphics card to it's knees.

You could always transcode the raw footage to something like ProRes 444 or 4444 or Avid DNxHR @ 4K and be able to edit the footage, but when you start color correcting or trying to add effects and de-noise the footage, it's going to crawl...

I have a AMD 3990x 12 core with 32 GB of ram and a Nvidia Titan X with 10GB of VRAM and it punks out on 8K Red footage when you hit it with several nodes of color correction and a bit of noise reduction. The card just says "no thanks" and locks up.

I run DaVinci Resolve 16; your results may vary somewhat but it is probably similar to the same demands Adobe Premier and Final Cut X would put on a system trying to play and cut a heavily compressed format like H.265.

You better have one smoking machine if you intend to edit H.265 in native format...

Here's a good candidate; if you have a similar machine to this, you are good.
https://www.pugetsystems.com/recommended/Recommended-Systems-for-DaVinci-Resolve-187/Buy_214

 

[Kino]

I have just found this thread after searching for 4k video editing tips. I have recently purchased a Sony MC2500 and I am so satisfied of the way it records videos. The quality is amazing, the price is quite low for that quality. So, the only thing I want to figure out is where I can edit the videos and if my computer will handle that. And if not maybe I can convert somehow my video. Like it's suggested here https://www.movavi.com/support/how-to/how-to-convert-video.html.

George,

Glad you found a camera you like! Just a tip though, the MC2500 is not a 4K camera, but it is a HD camera. That really doesn't matter if the images you get are what you want. Most people wind up down-rezing the images to HD or lower to stream them anyway, so you'll do fine.

Yes, a 4K or higher image is like a bigger negative, but most end users do not need or cannot handle the extra data load and expense of recording and editing in 4K.

Actually, it helps you quite a bit on the hardware and software cost issue by being HD (1920 x 1080), because this format is usually pretty easy to cut on a modest computer system.

One note of concern; the camcorder records in a highly compressed format of AVCHD, so unless have a fairly new computer with moderately good specs, you will need to convert it to a format that will playback and edit easier on older equipment.

The program you link is probably a good candidate, but how about exploring some Open Source and Free software?

https://itsfoss.com/open-source-video-editors/

Good luck.