• Blackmagic Design

  MJPG vs ProRez

  Posted by Margus Voll on April 24, 2007 at 7:53 am

  Hi.

  How does those two compare ?

  Can you say that one is superior to other etc?

  I belive both of them are 4:2:2 but is there eny difference ?

  I ask all this because i have plan to swap to mac later this year
  and trying to figure out how it is going to be in my workflow as
  some pc suits will remain.

  —

  Margus

  https://iconstudios.eu

  Luke Maslen replied 19 years ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
• 3 Replies

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  Kaspar Kallas

  April 25, 2007 at 10:51 am

  the primary difference is 10 bit support in pro-rez

  -Kaspar
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  Margus Voll

  April 25, 2007 at 1:41 pm

  Hi Kaspar.

  So they both should run on internal 3 hdd array on MacPro?

  BTW. do you have eny direct email etc?
  I have wondered about it for some time now 🙂

  —

  Margus

  https://iconstudios.eu
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  Luke Maslen

  April 26, 2007 at 3:26 am

  Hi Margus,

  Further to Kaspar’s comment, both codecs will work fine on your 3-disk array. ProRes is supplied with Final Cut Pro so presumably that means it will only be available for the Mac platform. That’s fine as long as you don’t need to share files with Windows users. I think that all of the other compressed, editing codecs in Final Cut Pro are 8-bit whereas ProRes is 10-bit so it has some extra quality if you need it but are unable to use full uncompressed quality because you don’t have enough disk storage.

  Regards,

  Luke Maslen
  Blackmagic Design

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