• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  DVCPRO HD to ProRes

  Posted by Logan Kelsey on May 22, 2007 at 12:04 am

  I’ve been working on a DVCPRO HD project for several months with a bunch on motion graphics. I just did the FCS2 upgrade today and decided to re-render one of the animations to ProRes (just to 422, not (HQ)) from AE as a test.

  This particular animation has a substantial gradient and so I have small amount of banding as DVCPRO HD file. The ProRes version looks GREAT. No banding AND I just plopped it in my DVDPRO HD timeline and it just plays. Awesome – thanks Apple.

  Cheers,
  Logan

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  Graeme Nattress replied 19 years, 3 months ago 5 Members · 6 Replies
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  Jerry Hofmann

  May 22, 2007 at 12:07 am

  10 bit matters!

  Jerry

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  Jeremy Garchow

  May 22, 2007 at 2:02 am

  [Jerry Hofmann] “10 bit matters!”

  Yes it does, and Logan that is great news!

  Jeremy
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  Michael Sacci

  May 22, 2007 at 2:46 am

  Which level of ProRes did you use. I want to go from DVCProHD to the smaller ProRes 422 to keep the file sizes close to DVCProHD.

  Hopefully I get FCS2 tomorrow but won’t be able to install until Thursday afternoon.
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  Jerry Hofmann

  May 22, 2007 at 11:35 am

  Pro Res is larger than DVCPROHD. About twice the size in fact.

  I don’t see any real reason to use Pro Res 4:2:2 unless you’re worried about graphics banding or something… it’s 10 bit where DVCPROHD is 8 bit.

  Jerry

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  Jerry Hofmann

  May 22, 2007 at 11:55 am

  I’m referring to DVCPROHD here to be clear… if you have other formats and you’re mixing them (especially uncompressed HD) then Pro Res makes real sense… I think all of this will shake out very soon… no doubt graphics with gradients would look better though in Pro Res over DVCPROHD.

  Jerry

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  Graeme Nattress

  May 22, 2007 at 4:13 pm

  DVCproHD is great to use if that’s what you shot, or that’s what you’re mastering to. But I’d not use it as an intermediate codec, because that’s what ProRes is designed for. ANd it’s great at it.

  Graeme

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