• Adobe Premiere Pro

  Pro Res Format?

  Posted by Steven Prebble on September 10, 2012 at 9:26 pm

  Hi! One of my music videos I edited is going to be shown on UK TV on some of the music channels. I have been asked by the label to export it to HD PRO RES. Now I can only think they mean apple pro res but I am a windows user and therefore that option isn’t available to me. What would be the next best option? A high res h.264 ?
  Please help! Thankyou so much!

  Steven

  Lenny Greaster replied 14 years ago 3 Members · 7 Replies
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  Lenny Greaster

  September 10, 2012 at 9:34 pm

  With a little effort you can. You can use Debugframeserver, Avisynth and FFMPEG directly from an export – or make an intermediate file (maybe uncompressed) and just feed that into FFMPEG to make ProRes mov.

  Otherwise I would suggest DNxHD as an alternative (download the free Avid codec).
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  Tom Daigon

  September 10, 2012 at 9:37 pm

  If they have requested Prores that is what you must provide them.Lenny has suggested several ways to do it.

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  Steven Prebble

  September 11, 2012 at 8:15 am

  Thankyou so much for those suggestions Lenny! Not %100 sure on how to do those things though. The last suggestion…. if I export from PP in a 1080 hi res whatever format, I can then convert that in that FFMPEG program to ProRes? Is it as simple as that or will there be numerous settings that I will need to change?

  I’m sorry for my stupidity, I never expected a large record label to want to use one of my videos at this stage in my career!!

  Steven
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  Lenny Greaster

  September 11, 2012 at 4:26 pm

  Here’s a quick “how to” for FFMPEG (assuming an intermediate file “source.avi”)

  1. Install FFMPEG (download from https://ffmpeg.zeranoe.com/builds/ I’ll use the 32bit Static (latest)

  2. Place the FFMPEG_32 folder in Program Files
  3. Copy “source.avi” into the same directory
  4. Open a Command Prompt
  5. Type “Set path=C:Program FilesFFMPEG_32bin;%path%” -no quotes, press Enter
  6. Type “ffmpeg -i source.avi -vcodec prores -profile 3 -acodec copy output.mov” -no quotes, Press Enter
  7. “output.mov” will be ProRes 422 (HQ) and in the same directory

  Options
  The path can be set in the ffmpeg script for the source and the output example:

  ffmpeg -i E:Media DriveProjectRendersource.avi -vcodec prores -profile 3 -acodec copy E:Media DriveProjectFinaloutput.mov

  Here are the different ProRes settings:

  PRORES proxy ‘apco’ – 36mbps ffmpeg -i source.avi -vcodec prores -profile 0 -acodec copy output.mov
  PRORES 422 (LT) ‘apcs’ – 75mbps ffmpeg -i source.avi -vcodec prores -profile 1 -acodec copy output.mov
  PRORES 422 ‘apcn’ – 112mbps ffmpeg -i source.avi -vcodec prores -profile 2 -acodec copy output.mov
  PRORES 422 (HQ) ‘apch’ – 185mbps ffmpeg -i source.avi -vcodec prores -profile 3 -acodec copy output.mov
  PRORES 422 (4444)’apch’ – 185mbps+ ffmpeg -i source.avi -vcodec prores -profile 3 -pix_fmt yuv444p10 -acodec copy output.mov

  That’s it! There are a couple of UI’s for FFMPEG and you can write a bat script to batch encode a whole folder. The DebugFrameServer/AviSynth work flow is a bit more complex but easy enough when you’ve done it a few times.

  I hope this is helpful!
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  Steven Prebble

  September 11, 2012 at 4:46 pm

  Wow thankyou so so much for that! That’s so helpful! I have no idea how I would of ever worked that out without your reply!

  Really appreciate the time you took to do that for me!
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  Lenny Greaster

  September 11, 2012 at 5:59 pm

  You’re very welcome! Sorry my back-slashes in all the file paths didn’t come out, I hope that doesn’t throw anyone… should have used the code button, d-uh!
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  Lenny Greaster

  September 11, 2012 at 6:01 pm

  Let’s see if this is formatted correctly…

  Here's a quick "how to" for FFMPEG (assuming an intermediate file "source.avi")

  1. Install FFMPEG (download from https://ffmpeg.zeranoe.com/builds/ I'll use the 32bit Static (latest)

  2. Place the FFMPEG_32 folder in Program Files
  3. Copy "source.avi" into the same directory
  4. Open a Command Prompt
  5. Type "Set path=C:\Program Files\FFMPEG_32\bin;%path%" -no quotes, press Enter
  6. Type "ffmpeg -i source.avi -vcodec prores -profile 3 -acodec copy output.mov" -no quotes, Press Enter
  7. "output.mov" will be ProRes 422 (HQ) and in the same directory

  Options
  The path can be set in the ffmpeg script for the source and the output example:

  ffmpeg -i E:\Media Drive\Project\Render\source.avi -vcodec prores -profile 3 -acodec copy E:\Media Drive\Project\Final\output.mov

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