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  • Safe to use ProRes Proxy for the Web?

    Posted by Josh Williams on September 6, 2011 at 11:47 pm

    I have about 88 hours of footage (4 cameras @ 22 hours each) that I am doing a large multi cam edit on. Not all 88 hours into one piece but many small pieces. So far I have converted it all into ProRes Proxy for editing and I intended to reconnect it to ProRes LT when I was ready for export.
    However since the end products are going to be on a website would it be ok to use ProRes proxy and just export from that? When I look at it after exporting to h.264 720p and uploading to youtube it is really not bad.
    Or am I just going to be shooting myself in the foot by not reconnecting to the higher ProRes LT.
    Am I just being lazy and cutting corners?

    Ron Pestes replied 14 years, 11 months ago 3 Members · 4 Replies
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  • Josh Williams

    September 7, 2011 at 12:00 am

    Or I guess I don’t even need the proxy files right? I can just have everything as ProRes 422 LT and just edit those files.

  • Shane Ross

    September 7, 2011 at 1:03 am

    ProRes Proxy has plenty of quality for web output. Do tests and see for yourself. That’s the best way to judge…YOU look and see what you think.

    Shane

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  • Josh Williams

    September 7, 2011 at 1:15 am

    Yeah. I just tested a proxy vs an LT and I really could not see a difference in most cases. And I think if we are finishing out to 720p for the web we should be good

  • Ron Pestes

    September 7, 2011 at 3:48 pm

    You should be fine with Proxy. Go for it.

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