• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Prores 422 vs uncompressed 8 bit

  Posted by John Collins on October 5, 2009 at 4:50 pm

  Im doing some work for a company that is doing live capture through a Kona using uncompressed 8 bit settings. The footage is SD, and we are doing some serious Motion round-tripping for graphics, then rendering it out to output via the kona to an IMX deck. The original file sizes are huge, and the render times(set to same as codec) are enormous.
  My question is would capturing and rendering in Prores 422 lower the file size, and more importantly, speed up the renders? File size is less of an issue as RAID space is vast, but the long renders are killer.

  Michael Gissing replied 16 years, 7 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  Eric Johnson

  October 5, 2009 at 5:26 pm

  Not totally sure about the Render times (though I think they would be), but drive space on SD Pro Res (HQ) is about half that of 8bit uncompressed SD.
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  Michael Gissing

  October 5, 2009 at 10:14 pm

  Prores is also 10 bit. It might be a bit quicker to render ProRes. A simple short test will answer that on your particular system.

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