Yeah, usually RAW is either the whole sensor (8K in this case) or they could just use a portion of the sensor. RED cameras have that option, but of course it's cropped.
A fireman saving a cat is not a great example. The original inspiration for the idea was the scene from Alien when Ripley saves the cat. That's not her job to do it, but by showing the hero do this in the first scene in which they are introduced, we understand something about their character immediately.
I appreciate what the Institute does, but this interview was a nothingburger.
Great! All the drawbacks of not being full frame, and an opportunity to not use all the the terrific cinema glass designed to cover S35. Perfect!
I'm less impressed with ProRes playback (since it's light to decode) than something like a 4k 60p H.265 codec, which requires more CPU/GPU horsepower and is currently gumming up my edit workflow. Yes I know I can transcode.
If that camera is compressing 8K/30p or 4K/120p video into an H.265 stream, it should ship with a fire extinguisher.