ProRes question

David McGiffert · April 16th, 2009, 10:15 AM

Sorry about the late reply,
Two reasons for exporting a self-contained Q/T for use in Compressor:

1. I like a self-contained Q/T export to save as a master.

2. It probably works just as well to directly export to Compressor,
but I got in the habit years ago when - for some reason that I never figured out -
I could not directly export from FCP to Compressor, Compressor just would not
open.

all the best,

David

Hanno di Rosa · April 16th, 2009, 10:45 AM

with harddrive space being one of the factors where prices drop since decades, I see no reason NOT to work in ProRes. My first 1 GB SCSI drive in 1989 was 1k$ ! now I get 1 terabyte for 1/10.

Pete Cofrancesco · April 16th, 2009, 11:17 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jonathan Levin

Aric.
Pete,

Storage not a problem (yet). I'm wondering. When you say your G5 struggles along with HDV, what exactly is it struggling with? I've been editing HDV (AIC 1080/60) and aside from having to render tiitles, some transitions, I have not really had to much trouble.

The reason I ask is I too am working on a old-ish G5 SP 1.8 set-up.

Aside from the fact that it takes about 20 hours to conform on export.

Jonathan

That's because you are not editing in native HDV, your using AIC (Apple Intermediate Codec).

April 16th, 2009, 10:15 AM	#31
David McGiffert Regular Crew Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Topanga, CA Posts: 139	Sorry about the late reply, Two reasons for exporting a self-contained Q/T for use in Compressor: 1. I like a self-contained Q/T export to save as a master. 2. It probably works just as well to directly export to Compressor, but I got in the habit years ago when - for some reason that I never figured out - I could not directly export from FCP to Compressor, Compressor just would not open. all the best, David

April 16th, 2009, 10:45 AM	#32
Hanno di Rosa Regular Crew Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Tuscany Italy Posts: 38	with harddrive space being one of the factors where prices drop since decades, I see no reason NOT to work in ProRes. My first 1 GB SCSI drive in 1989 was 1k$ ! now I get 1 terabyte for 1/10.