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Prores vs. ProresHQ
Is one 8-bit and one 10-bit? Or just different data rates?
Been reading (seemingly) conflicting info on what bit rate they are…or maybe they can be either bit rate? Is there a place in after effects/FCP/Quicktime player that would tell me what bitrate I’ve encoded to (rendering out of AE and Compressor…)
Besides 8/10 bit difference, any other diff between reg ProRes and HQ?
Thanks all (and for you patience…) – trying to acheive the level of “guru-ness” (“guru-osity”??) I previously had with M100 with my new FCP system…going to take many painful posts, unfortunatley for ya’ll 🙂
Tom
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Tom,
Both flavors of ProRes 422 are 10-bit.
I would point you to Apple’s ProRes422 white paper – it’s very informative. It’s here: https://images.apple.com/finalcutstudio/resources/white_papers/L342568A_ProRes_WP.pdf
Hope this helps.
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[mr.escandon] “Both flavors of ProRes 422 are 10-bit.”
I’ve heard that as well, but what I don’t like seeing is that there is indeed an option for 8-bit prores in fcp.
The HQ version takes up more disk space for sure, but I really can’t visually see a difference between it and the non HQ version. Still though I always use HQ to not take a chance as it takes up so little room compared to uncompressed.
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I think HQ is more intended for when you’re doing color correction or graphics work. The visual difference is pretty non-existent
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What you get depends on how you set the rendering options: 8b or “high precision YUV”.
Rafael
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