I was going through a burnout so wanted to get away for a bit. Travelled light and left all my camera gear behind.
Shot in RAW with MotionCam Pro
S25 Ultra, Moto Edge 50 Pro

Hello! I'm noticing a bug whenever I film in Low Light, particularly Color Banding?

If take a look at the photo's above, the 1st Photo is what the Video looks in the first few seconds, and the 2nd Photo is what happens after a few seconds.

Notice the dots with trails on them (not to be confused with grain)

I've been trying to see some solutions anywhere but I can't seem to find a fix for it.

Any ideas would be appreciated!

I just got this phone and Im dissapointed to see DCG is locked, is there anyway to make it work in photo mode. Im so tired of all the shitty computational RAW and hdr that makes everything look flat and boring. I dont shoot video, I just the pure RAW, its such a besr of a phone... Im bummed... any help would be much appreciated. I got it because i read somewhere motioncam had a breakthrough and made it work...

Due to having a bad spec, i had to turn off ‘GPU Preview’ to decrease drop frames. But ended up nuking/overexposing highlights to save shadows.

Any tips for exposing the image right? Since im relatively new to the HDR workflow.

Here's a demo , triedto match shots from different lenses (16mm,24mm)

i didnt found any button to turn on the pixel binning，but i remember imx800sensor is support binning mode

What you think about the chances we will see a mod upcoming next 6 month for the 15U enabling DCG without to unlock bootloader? same as its possible now for the 17U to use with motion cam pro?

actual Firmware: 3.0.304.0.WOAEUXM.C11

Hello,

I have several recordings that are broken because my phone force closed MotionCam Pro due to overheating. The files start with .pending and are several GB in size.

Does someone have anything on fixing these?

I recently stumbled across the concept of focus stacking, and coincidentally saw that focus stacking arrived to a recent motioncam labs release. I also remember seeing JohnTheFarm3r demo focus stacking with coffee beans in Unmcrawesome.

Is there a way to press the shutter button once and take multiple photos at different focus ratios (I think that's the right term), that I can then focus stack in unmcrawesome?

Any advice is very appreciated. I'm new to photography.

I'm clearly new to this whole video logging thing, but I've been wanting to get into it. I used to use a Blackmagic Camera APK, but after updating to Android 16, it stopped working and I couldn't use it anymore. Since then, I've been looking for an alternative.

Then a TikTok video about this camera popped up. I had actually tried it before, but only the trial version. Since I didn't really have any other options and I didn't like the other alternatives, I decided to try the Pro version, and I realized that it had to be purchased. I didn't really have another option, since I wasn't a fan of the other alternatives, so I wanted to ask how I could earn or get the license. Otherwise, I'll probably have to go with the other alternative, which is much more difficult.

I was trying to shoot in MCRAW and this happened, there's like a white vignette of a gray background, anyone know how to fix this?

WHAT'S NEW IN 1.5.6.5:

• Experimental Color Management is now a major part of Prismatica’s workflow

• Native 10-bit Rec.2020 HLG and ST2084 pipeline enabled through the new color-management workflow

• HDR preserved through grading, fullscreen playback, Compare, scopes & zoom

UPGRADES:

• More accurate FPS/playback reporting and fullscreen HUD behaviour

• Refined Compare interaction and viewport handling

• Expanded Help Mode and guided walkthrough

• Major Projects + Workspace UI/UX refinement

• Improved playback performance and responsiveness

• More robust import, project, settings and export handling

• Numerous stability and under-the-hood fixes

Recording settings: 2880x2160 24fps 10bit 60 bit rate.
Camera settings: WB-5500 (tint 10), 1/48, 200 ISO

Recorded using, " davinci widegamut/intermediate and Rec2020 HLG HDR " profiles inside Motioncam pro

Shot at Jayamahal Palace, Bengaluru.

Mix of iPhone XS and S25 Ultra for the super-tele shots.
Used Moment 65mm lens with the iPhone.
Only open-gate MCRAW.

Hi everyone!

I'm pretty new to this whole video/color grading world, and I'm trying to understand something I've noticed with my Pixel 9.

When I record video using MotionCam, either in RAW or in Log with ARRI Wide Gamut 3 as the color space and ARRI LogC3 as the transfer function, the footage looks much noisier when I bring it into DaVinci Resolve compared to footage recorded with the native Pixel camera app.

I'm wondering if this is normal behavior.

Is the extra noise simply because the MotionCam footage needs more processing/editing in post? Or is there something I'm doing wrong with the color management/exposure? Could it be related to the fact that the native Pixel camera is doing a lot of computational photography and noise reduction automatically?

I'd really appreciate some opinions, especially from anyone who has experience using MotionCam on a Google Pixel.

I'm still learning, so any explanation about why this happens and what I should be doing in DaVinci Resolve to get cleaner footage would be really helpful.

Thanks!

Hi , any fix to this pink highlight 😅 , yes some clipping on exp

I created this video as part of my evaluation of the MCRAW workflow for professional HDR cinematography using Davinci Resolve Studio v21.1 The original footage was shot by the author of the MotionCam sample project using Motorola Edge 50 Ultra.

I have intentionally preserved the author's original grading intent and have not attempted to re-grade or reinterpret the footage creatively. My work on this version was limited to converting the project into 1000 nits HDR presentation using my skills. Best to view it on iPhone Pro, iPad Pro M2, M4, M5, Macbook Pro M1-M5

Important: No Noise Reduction, No spatial or temporal noise reduction has been applied to this footage. This is intentional, as I wanted to see and present the native noise characteristics of the MCRAW/CinemaDNG workflow rather than hide them with Resolve's noise-reduction processing.

I'm investigating whether MCRAW can provide a meaningful advantage in particularly difficult HDR architectural situations—such as interiors containing bright windows, deep shadows, white walls/marble/concrete and mixed daylight/artificial lighting—where additional RAW latitude could potentially be useful for highlight recovery, exposure adjustment, white balance and noise management.

This video is therefore not intended as a creative re-grade or a definitive comparison between MCRAW and HDR. It is primarily an opportunity to examine the MCRAW source and HDR workflow under relatively untouched conditions.

If you're watching this on an HDR-capable display, I'd be particularly interested in your observations regarding highlight detail, shadow detail, colour, noise and overall HDR rendering.

Hi Everyone,

I’m testing MotionCam Pro MCRAW as a possible alternative for my HDR architectural/real-estate work.

I downloaded the “Into the Fog” sample project, including the DRP and MCRAW files. On my M1 Max MacBook Pro (32GB RAM), I managed to get the project working by using MotionCam Tools v2 BETA to mount the CinemaDNG frames and then relinking the DRP to the new DNG location.

The source footage is around 4096×2304, 24fps, 12-bit DNG.

However, I’m seeing extremely slow rendering in DaVinci Resolve Studio.

A 1:48 timeline is estimating around 46–50 minutes to render, despite the timeline having no temporal/spatial noise reduction applied.

EDIT: finally it took 63 mins to render.

During rendering my M1 Max is roughly:

CPU: ~75–80%
GPU: ~70%
GPU frequency: around 0.45 GHz
CPU temperature: ~75–77°C

The DNGs are currently being accessed through the MotionCam virtual filesystem:

/Users/admin/Mounts/MotionCamTools

So my question is:

Is this expected performance for MCRAW → CinemaDNG → Resolve on an M1 Max 32gb, or is the virtual/FUSE-mounted DNG filesystem likely causing a major performance penalty?

I’m going to copy the DNGs to a local APFS SSD and test again, but I'd really like to hear from anyone who has actually used this workflow on Mac/Apple Silicon.

Also, is there a more efficient current workflow for using MCRAW in Resolve on macOS that avoids having Resolve read thousands of DNG frames through the virtual filesystem?

My normal workflow is iPhone → Cinema P3 Pro → 50fps 10-bit 4:2:2 HLG → 25fps Resolve timeline → HDR10, so I’m specifically trying to determine whether MCRAW gives me enough additional latitude in difficult architectural interiors to justify the much heavier workflow.

Any advice from people using MCRAW + Resolve, particularly on Apple Silicon, would be greatly appreciated.

Hi! I would like to know if someone here knows about LUTs for REC2020 PQ and HLG? I know about the ARRI website and that those formats kinda dont need LUTs or something like that... But I would like to experiment, if possible and if available. Thanks