SCRATCH gets licensed ProRes output on Windows

[Erik Lindahl]

Telestreme Episode Engine has had it for some time.

[Walter Soyka]

[Erik Lindahl] “Telestreme Episode Engine has had it for some time.”

Indeed, but I’m asking about desktop Windows. I thought Engine required a server edition of Windows. I could be mistaken.

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[Erik Lindahl]

That could be true. But Telestreme does advertise it as their “desktop product”.

That said, Engine is very expensive if you just are looking for ProRes support. The Pro-version + a Mac is virtually the same cost.

[Michael Phillips]

Product price discussion aside, MTI’s dailies system, Cortex has been making ProRes for a while as a desktop product.

Michael

[Craig Seeman]

Cinemartin Cinec does ProRes export on Windows and has for some time.
https://www.cinemartin.com/cinec/
Standard edition only 99 Euro
https://www.cinemartin.com/cinec/buy/

In the USA
https://www.sharbor.com/vendors/CMN.html
and
https://www.adkvideoediting.com/viewitem.cfm?id=7728

[Walter Soyka]

[Michael Phillips] “Product price discussion aside, MTI’s dailies system, Cortex has been making ProRes for a while as a desktop product. “

[Craig Seeman] “Cinemartin Cinec does ProRes export on Windows and has for some time.”

It’s not ProRes encoding that’s a big deal in this story to me. It’s the big shiny Apple logo on the Assimilate web page.

As far as I know, SCRATCH is the first use of an officially-licensed Apple ProRes encoder on a Windows desktop OS. Every other product I am aware of either uses ffmpeg or their own proprietary ProRes-compatible encoder.

Walter Soyka
Principal & Designer at Keen Live
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[Michael Phillips]

You are correct, that is the unique difference in this story. Similar to DNxHD, if not licensed from Avid, it really can’t be called DNxHD but the less enticing SMPTE name of VC-3.

Michael

[Walter Soyka]

[Michael Phillips] “You are correct, that is the unique difference in this story. Similar to DNxHD, if not licensed from Avid, it really can’t be called DNxHD but the less enticing SMPTE name of VC-3. “

I think it’s even a bigger deal than that. DNxHD/VC-3, being a SMPTE standard, seems somewhat more stable than the entirely proprietary ProRes.

CineForm is proprietary, too, but it’s working on becoming SMPTE VC-5:
https://kws.smpte.org/kws/public/projects/project/details?project_id=15

ProRes remains proprietary, but the fact that it has now been licensed on “the other platform” is interesting — and hopefully promising for interchange.

Walter Soyka
Principal & Designer at Keen Live
Motion Graphics, Widescreen Events, Presentation Design, and Consulting
RenderBreak Blog – What I’m thinking when my workstation’s thinking
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[Michael Phillips]

I totally agree but despite that, ProRes is used far more often as a deliverable, arhive, etc. than DNxHD.

Michael

[Gary Huff]

[Walter Soyka] “ProRes remains proprietary, but the fact that it has now been licensed on “the other platform” is interesting — and hopefully promising for interchange.”

Love to see ProRes go the way of ALAC.