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Free Prores encoding on windows
Since the lack of Prores encoding on windows has come up as an issue several times I thought I play around with ffmpeg a bit.
I know, it’s not as good as the ability to output directly from within your NLE but this might help some people who don’t know how to go about it in general and who need a non-geeky method.
Download a gui here:
https://www.stuudio.ee/anothergui/
It comes with proper presets for ProresDownload ffmpeg for win:
https://ffmpeg.zeranoe.com/builds/Open “Anothergui”, it asks where the ffmpeg.exe is located. Point to it (that’s only done once).
Choose the preset you want, the source file and the output path.
Go.
It also does batch conversions.That’s it, very easy and free. There are lots of other options and deeper possibilities but it’s might be a good starting point for some.
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Thanks Frank, that was very helpful.
Herb Sevush
Zebra Productions
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Wait- FREE ProRes? How did they pull this off? Doesn’t ProRes need to be licensed from Apple?
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Actually, there IS a way to export directly to Prores out of Vegas and Premiere CS5.5
It is a bit more geeky but it works:https://slugco.com/meta/ProResOnWindows/
There is also a special framreserver 64bit built specifically for CS5.5, that’s “Advanced Frameserver”.
https://sourceforge.net/projects/advancedfs/
Mulithreaded Prores encoding is in it’s early stages so it’s not super-fast atm but they’ll add speed with every new build. Curious to see where this goes.
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[Frank Gothmann] “Curious to see where this goes.”
Hopefully Apple will open source ProRes like they did for their lossless audio codec.
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Some guy called “Elvis Presley” reverse engineered Prores and that’s why it’s now included in FFMpeg. It seems that at least in some countries it’s perfectly legal to reverse engineer things and include those to your products. Read more discussion here: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/kgqdd/apple_prores_codec_reverse_engineered/
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Frank, thanks for the tip! I registered just to thank you as I’ve been looking for a working solution to this.
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You guys could try MediaReactor from Drastic:
https://www.drastic.tv/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=58:mediareactorworkstation&catid=40&Itemid=80It’s available as an IO-Plugin for Premiere and features a native
non-ffmpeg ProRes-codec, which in some aspects is even better and faster than the original Apple-thing.Couldn’t be easier 😉 .
Cheers,
MazzePS.: Not for free, but 295 bucks for proper (and legal) ProRes-Export isn’t too much, I think 😉 .
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Thank you mark pigott ..
Is cinemartin gives 4k yet?
I saw an asterisk:
* Will be added on next release and will be free of charge for existing license owners.
I need Prores at 4k for my timelapses…
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