R3D to Prores Proxy or Prores LT for edit?

[Shane Ross]

You want the highest quality, yet you choose the two lowest end ProRes types as possibilities? If you want high quality, you want ProRes HQ or (if you have the hard drive space that are fast) ProRes 4444.

ProRes Proxy is the “offline” editing codec…meant to save space and be light on the system for ease of editing. ProRes LT is a lower end codec, very good quality but light on the drive space requirements. Then you have ProRes 422 with is the main codec…then HQ which is meant for 10 bit shooting formats, and 4444 which is the top of the line, and also good for graphics as it can contain an Alpha Channel.

Shane
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[Wooyeon Jo]

is Prores 422 HD same as Prores HQ?

[Michael Jones]

Been working with R3D for almost a year now. A legitimate question remains… is “What is better… ProRes vs R3D when workin in Premiere Pro?” I know the processing tasks are greater without the red rocket and or Cuda Cores vs R3D and ProRes… but I simply wonder if the “Quality” is better if one debayers in Red Cine X rather than editing R3D then exporting to ProRes straight from PPCC to Media Encoder. (Not asking about ProRes Lt vs 444 etc). Hypothetically say, best debayer setting in Redcine X vs ProRes HQ from Encoder.)