Apple Pro Res Universally Compatible?

[Bob Zelin]

Of course it’s not universally compatible ! It’s an Apple product. There is no codec that is univerally compatible. There is no “easy”, so you don’t have to think about it. This applies to AVID DNxHD, MPEG2, MPEG4 (h.264), and everything else. There is not one single codec (not even .psd) that can be read by everything on the market.

Bob Zelin

[Phil Bates]

Hmm… maybe I was too all-inclusive. Up ’til now, as a stock footage company, we have provided Quicktime flies compressed with PhotoJPEG. It has been accepted by virtually all our customers without problem. Unfortunately, we are having quality issues the latest version of CS5’s PhotoJPEG output. We need an alternative. Other than Apple Pro Res, I don’t have any other options that come close to quality, file size and convenience.

Thanks,
Phil

Phil Bates
http://www.artbeats.com

[Phil Bates]

Thanks Dave, we are in discussion with Adobe now and one of their engineers has our files. We’ll see how it goes.

Phil

Phil Bates
http://www.artbeats.com

[John Heagy]

If you need a compressed 10bit codec that can be read, and therefore transcoded to other formats, ProRes is a good choice. Apple offers a free PC and Mac ProRes decoder. There’s good reason why EVS and Arri chose it.

The below codecs do not allow encoding… for that you do need a Mac and FCP. Really just Qmaster… no serial required.. a little known fact.

https://support.apple.com/downloads/Apple_ProRes_QuickTime_Decoder_1_0_for_Windows

https://support.apple.com/downloads/Apple_ProRes_QuickTime_Decoder_1_0_for_Mac

[Walter Soyka]

[Phil Bates] “Thanks Dave, we are in discussion with Adobe now and one of their engineers has our files. We’ll see how it goes.”

Hi Phil,

Any progress on your Motion-JPEG banding issue? That one really puzzled me, and I’d love to hear how it gets resolved.

Thanks,

Walter Soyka
Principal & Designer at Keen Live
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[Phil Bates]

Hi Walter,
Nothing yet from Adobe. I will post post their response here though.

Phil
https://www.artbeats.com

Phil Bates
http://www.artbeats.com