Apple prores 422 on PC

[Walter Soyka]

[Phil Brough] “I was wondering if there is a way to install a prores codec on a PC so I can output movies from After Effects using the prores codec.”

There is only a ProRes decoder available for Windows — no encoder. You must encode ProRes on Macs.

Avid’s DNxHD is a comparable cross-platform alternative to ProRes 422. I don’t believe there’s anything similar to ProRes 4444.

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[Walter Soyka]

[Dave LaRonde] “Any computer equipped with QT Pro 7.x has both The animation and the PNG codecs, both of which support alpha channels, and both of which can be read on Macs.

It’s a Right Royal Pain for us users that Apple and Microsoft won’t just decide to play nice with each other.”

Hear, hear!

I also frequently use image sequences. TIFF, Targa, and PNG sequences all support transparency, they are about as cross-platform as you get, and they don’t require Quicktime to use.

As a side benefit, you can restart failed image sequences renders where they leave off.

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[Geets Romo]

Sorry to get in on this late – I was wondering if you know what the loss would be like if I render out R3D with the Animation codec from AE to FC for color correction and do the final render there with ProRes4444?

Thanks

Geets

[Walter Soyka]

[Geets Romo] “I was wondering if you know what the loss would be like if I render out R3D with the Animation codec from AE to FC for color correction and do the final render there with ProRes4444?”

The animation codec is 8-bit only.

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[Geets Romo]

Thanks!

Got any suggestions for a top codec to rendering out of AE with?

Thanks

Geets

[John Meyers]

Avid DNxHD for Quicktime formats are the only ones that work for me cross-platform without loss like JPG. They are free to use on the PC and work with greater than 8-bit. PNG series are also effective, but clearly less managable based on the number of files.

[Cem Kurtulus]

are there any updates on this now that it’s been 5 years since the beginning of this thread?

[Walter Soyka]

[Cem Kurtulus] “are there any updates on this now that it’s been 5 years since the beginning of this thread?”

Yes, in those 5 years, ffmpeg has added reverse-engineered ProRes support, a ProRes-compatible QuickTime component has come on and off the market, and a number of Windows-based products have officially licensed ProRes from Apple. The cheapest of these is probably currently SCRATCH from Assimilate.

Of course, there’s always Apple’s hardware-based ProRes encoder dongle [link].

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