Whatever you guys do, new camera, new workflow, new whatever, we need better noise removal. On AVP, looking at anything from even a middistance has that ugly circa-2007 720p blurriness and lack of clarity, 8K or not.
So with new headsets set to match AVP clarity soon, we need 12k-16k resolution, and in the meantime some post-processing in Handbrake. Ideally with software encodes (no intel quicksync and certainly no Nvidia processing as the latter kills fine detail). Using NLMeans light in Hanbdbrake, encoding with a constant rate factor of around 20, with HEVC does an amazing job at removing noise in high quality 8K footage, though its slow as hell. I've done it myself to 5 minute sections on SLR originals on an I9 285k and 64GB of RAM.
But finding a 12k or 16k camera that does closeups well is a much better solution time/faster pipeline wise and will ultimately produce better results, provided such a camera is soon to exist (since Black Mursa failed).
Edit: protip, a worthy experiment, especially on restoration of older 5k and 6k content, is using Topaz Video AI Proteus with light settings (set recover detail to 0, reverse compression to 20, add detail to 30, sharpen to 10, noise removal to 5, deblur to -20), export to prores, highest quality,. Mov container. Then take that output and use the above handbrake settings on H265 main10, with the other factors I mentioned (medium speed is fine and Intel quicksync is acceptable if waiting on Software only is too slow, just dont enable the Nvidia processing, it sucks).
The result is a much much better video that looks basically native 8k.
