• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  ProRes and a ref monitor

  Posted by Jay Wolf on February 17, 2008 at 6:10 pm

  I have the Matrox MXO and have transcoded HDV to ProRes to work with Color.

  But now I don’t have a setting for ProRes under Video Playback…?!

  The ProRes footage looks a lot more reddish than the original HDV material.

  Am I overlooking something very simple or…

  is Color going to upgrade ProRes to Uncompressed (8bit) and should I chose that setting?

  G5 Quad, 3.5 Gig RAM, OS 10.4.10, FCS 2

  Sean Oneil replied 18 years, 2 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  Jerry Hofmann

  February 17, 2008 at 6:27 pm

  ProRes can’t be monitored externally directly… that’s why you don’t see a video playback option for it… the MXO will play it back though, just choose HD matching the frame size you’re working with in the ProRes sequence.

  Jerry

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  Sean Oneil

  February 17, 2008 at 10:16 pm

  [Jerry Hofmann] “ProRes can’t be monitored externally directly”

  That’s not a very accurate characterization. Video codecs can never be “monitored directly” without first being decoded to uncompressed video.

  The only reason you would ever see a ProRes video playback option is if you are sending the compressed stream over firewire to an external decoder, like the AJA IOHD – in which case the IO is converting it to uncompressed video. But it does not monitor ProRes directly, as you put it.

  Sorry for the snobby technical correction. But I can imagine numerous people mis-interpreting what you said as some sort of deficiency with the MXO and/or ProRes in general – which is not the case.

  Sean

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