One new feature of these new systems is the ability to record in H.265. The big advantage of H.265 is that there is about 50% more data being saved over H.264 while still maintaining about the same file size.
While H.265 is preserving more data and thus, can deliever better image quality, none of the top editors (Adobe Premeire Pro / Apple Final Cut X) can edit H.265 files well. To get either package to smoothly edit the H.265 files, we need to transcode (convert) them to something more usable. For our goal of maintaining maximum image quality while providing the smoothest editing experience, we will want to transcode the source files into ProRes 422 LT. While there are higher quality versions of ProRes, they will only cause unneccesary larger files and ProRes 422 LT can handle just slightly more data than we are generating, thus making it a great fit for our use.