• Compression Techniques

  FFMPEG supports now 10bit ProRes HQ de- & encoding

  Posted by Andreas Gumm on November 16, 2011 at 9:44 pm

  FFMPEG has build-in 10bit ProRes encoder now!
  So ProRes de- & encoding can be done now under LINUX & Windows!
  https://www.ffmpeg.org

  October 29, 2011

  New stuff in git master:

  planar rgb input support in sws
  libmodplug & bintext output
  g723.1 encoder
  g723.1 muxer
  random() function for the expression evaluator
  persistent variables for the expression evaluator
  pulseaudio input support
  h264 422 inter decoding support
  prores encoder
  native utvideo decoder
  libutvideo support
  deshake filter
  aevalsrc filter
  segment muxer
  mkv timecode v2 muxer
  cache urlprotocol
  many bugfixes and many other things

  Andreas Gumm
  selfemployed media author

  Andreas Gumm replied 14 years, 4 months ago 3 Members · 6 Replies
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  Andreas Gumm

  November 17, 2011 at 11:02 am

  No! FFMPEG is a command line tool only!
  Actually ProRes files can be read on Windows systems if Quicktime 7 is installed! Adobe Premiere, After Effects, Grass Valley EDIUS, Sony Vegas & other NLE systems are using the QT API to read ProRes files.

  Sadly, encoding ProRes with FFMPEG is a seperate extra step!
  So you have to export the whole timeline & feed it to FFMPEG or use the awesome Debugmode Frameserver to do this directly.

  Maybe ffdshow will be able to decode it in future releases!

  Andreas Gumm
  selfemployed media author
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  Jimmy Christensen

  December 12, 2011 at 6:46 am

  Yes, FFMPEG is a command line tool. However it’s based upon libavcodec (which actually is the one which have gotten prores support). Libavcodec is also used in the Linux version of Nuke, so with an updated libavcodec library for the Nuke writer in Linux and you got prores support.
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  Priit Poldmaa

  December 15, 2011 at 6:16 pm

  We have a Windows GUI program for ffmpeg what does include also presets for ProRes.
  It is portable and free.

  It has patchp rocessing, parallel processing and is able to control several more programs like ffmbc, VirtualDub, x264, HandBrake etc.

  AnotherGUI homepage here https://www.stuudio.ee/anothergui

  Regards
  Priit
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  Andreas Gumm

  December 15, 2011 at 7:15 pm

  Wow, a valuable GUI! Works like a charm!
  Would you see any chance to make directshow or VfW codecs work on input just to feed such files to FFMPEG or FFMBC?
  Maybe this can be work by creating temporary dummy *.AVS files or otherwise?
  Another thing, could you place the import button for presets on main screen?
  Thanks a lot, Priit! Great work!

  Cheers

  Andreas Gumm
  selfemployed media author
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  Priit Poldmaa

  December 15, 2011 at 7:27 pm

  VfW and DirectShow files have worked for me as much as I have used.
  Not sure how they are implemented in ffmpeg.
  Do you know what container and audio/video codec does your source have? May be you can put a short sample somewhere to download?

  It depends in source but in some case we use ffmbc instead of ffmpeg but it doesn’t encode ProRes AFAIK.

  We have used also AviSynth files for ffmpeg or VirtualDub input.
  Specially if we needed to encode from Red R3D files for offline editing.

  I will put the Preset Import Button on my TO DO list.

  Thanks for the kind words.
  Priit
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  Andreas Gumm

  December 15, 2011 at 7:45 pm

  Thanks a lot for your fast reply!
  The codec I use is not supported by FFMPEG!
  It’s a proprietary HQ codec from GrassValley, great in quality but not free & not available for programmers! Sadly… 😉

  Cheers

  Andreas

  Andreas Gumm
  selfemployed media author

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