ProRes Settings

[Jeremy Garchow]

Carsten, it used to be in the manual, but now I can’t find it. They must have changed something with 6.0.2. I have to dig a little deeper.

Jeremy

[Rafael Amador]

[Jeremy Garchow] “ProRes is 10bit”
Hi Jeremy,
It seems that is like that on capturing. Then, depends if you render in normal or High precission, you get 8b or you keep the 10b. At least there are 8b Prores sequence presets.
That’s not much clear in the “ProRes white papers”.
Cheers,
Rafael

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[David Roth weiss]

[Carsten Orlt] “Also I did tests and don’t see any difference between HQ and not.”

Carsten,

HQ produces file sizes 1.5x larger than that standard Pro Res. That means significantly more information is included per frame/field. However, the questions one must ask when trying to decide whether HQ is worth it are:

1. Is your monitor good enough to see the difference?

2. Are your eyes good enough to see the difference?

3. Is you material good enough to see the difference?

4. Will generational loss be a factor at some point down the road?

David Roth Weiss
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[Carsten Orlt]

David

Thanks the eyes and monitors are doing fine 🙂

I think its more a question about post economics. Why would I waste disk space for more quality that you can’t see and that will never be broadcast? And you need faster CPU’s too…

Unless somebody can tell me the hidden secret (and I do mean facts not theory) why to use HQ for HD broadcast I’m happy to save space and cpu power and get the same result.

Cheers
Carsten

[David Roth weiss]

[Carsten Orlt] “I think its more a question about post economics.”

That’s precisely what I was implying. In cases where the economics of post dictate nothing but the best, go HQ, otherwise plain vanilla Pro Res is great.

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los Angeles

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A forum host of Creative COW’s Business & Marketing, and Indie Film & Documentary forums.