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    SD ProRes?

    Posted by Nick Price on January 17, 2012 at 3:33 pm

    Hi
    have been requested to provide various versions of an Full HD ProRes PAL master, including an SD 16×9 version and an an SD 4×3 version. I havent been given more spec than that, so is it worth (or even do-able) keeping the codec as ProRes, or shall i re-encode it as uncompressed 8bit SD

    thanks
    nick

    Nick Price replied 14 years, 3 months ago 3 Members · 5 Replies
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  • Rafael Amador

    January 17, 2012 at 3:42 pm

    Hi Nick,
    Everything Prores.
    Why not?
    rafael

    http://www.nagavideo.com

  • Nick Price

    January 17, 2012 at 3:44 pm

    Hi Rafael,
    OK, Just checking that ProRes wasnt exclusively an HD format.

    thanks
    nick

  • Ryan Holmes

    January 17, 2012 at 9:21 pm

    ProRes can do SD or HD, 4:3 or 16:9.

    Ryan

  • Rafael Amador

    January 18, 2012 at 3:13 am

    As Ryan wrote.
    There is a widely spred myth about ProresHQ is for 2K stuff, but there is no relation between codecs and picture size.
    Prores was designed to overcome the huge file size of the Uncompressed codecs.
    BTW, with the actual price and speed of the storage system, a full Uncompressed workflow in SD is quire feasible. Few years ago that was reserved for rich people.
    rafael

    http://www.nagavideo.com

  • Nick Price

    January 18, 2012 at 1:47 pm

    I think its a myth because no one really talks about it.

    I don’t mind the file size of uncompressed SD myself either…but when it comes to transferring rushes over http://FTP…ProRes makes a BIG difference. Thanks for your help.
    nick

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