Color Grading Deliverables

[John Heiser]

[Jimmy Gallagher] “ProRes 4444HQ which will keep the full quality of the footage? Another person told me a DPX is better?”

Any difference in quality between DPX and PR4444 will be visually negligible if visible at all, and the difficulty of working with DPX far outweighs that difference. Plus, the heavy lifting on the image has already happened in the grading, so unless you’re using deprecated or obsolete 8-bit effects in your final timeline (which would thrash any image you throw at it), the ProRes will be pristine.

John Heiser
Senior Editor
o2 ideas – Birmingham, AL

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