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how to output sequences from Avid to Apple ProRes?
Working on a project in which one of the deliverables is all footage and sequences as ProRes files. We’ll be shooting AVC-Intra and editing on Media Composer 4 on a PC. Is there any way to output from Avid to ProRes? I can’t seem to find a PC version encoder for ProRes, only a decoder. If this isn’t possible, I have access to final cut and compressor running on a mac, so what would be the best way to get everything over to the mac once the program is edited and ready to be delivered? Thanks,
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You have to buy a Mac and FCP to get the ProRes encoder.
Export an uncompressed quicktime from your Avid and take it to the Mac you have access to. Run it through Compressor to get it to ProRes. Check for gamma issues.
Then write Apple and tell them to release a ProRes decoder for Macs and PCs. Remind them that production does not always happen on an FCP island.
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Doesn’t that defeat their goal of selling more Apple hardware?
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[Michael Hancock] “Then write Apple and tell them to release a ProRes decoder for Macs and PCs.”
I assume this was a typo and so this post is a correction (informational only). The decoder for ProRes is built in to the latest versions of Quicktime for Mac. If you have an earlier version, or Quicktime for PC, you can download the decoder separately from Apple here (PC). It is correct however that the only way to encode ProRes is with an FCP install on Mac.
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Oops. Yeah, that should have said “write Apple and tell them to release a ProRes encoder for Macs and PCs.”
Thanks for the correction.
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Michael Hancock
http://www.oswaldcommunications.com
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