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2.0 OVERVIEW OF THE RECORDING OPTIONS IN THE C700
The C700 differs from the companion C300 Mark II in five key respects:
1. In addition to the same XF-AVC codec [4] deployed in the C300 Mark II for on-board
recording of 4K / UHD / 2K / HD the C700 offers an additional option of the ProRes
codec [5]. Both codecs record to two CFast 2.0 memory cards
2. 4K RAW signal output is prepared in a quite different manner to that of the C500 and
C300 Mark II. Operational settings of digital white balance control, and color gamut
selection are not baked-in – but are instead added as metadata to the 4K RAW signal to
facilitate their implementation downstream within the Canon Cinema RAW
Developments software
3. While the on-board compressed recordings entail a choice of the same three Canon Log
functions [6] as the C300 Mark II – the 4K RAW has a different OETF applied that has
been optimized for that particular signal
4. The 4K RAW signal is recorded in a specially designed dockable recorder – see Figure 1
5. That same dockable recorder can also record Apple ProRes as shown in Figure 1
Figure 1 The C700 offers three distinct options for recording – a choice between two on-board
codecs with additional RAW recording capability to a dockable Codex recorder
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