To ProRes or not to ProRes?

[Keith Moreau]

Hi Jonathan

It’s good to know that the wrapped MOVs are not giving you trouble in CC. It seems CC fixed a lot of slowdowns on the Mac, something I’ve noticed in the short time I’ve been using it, which is heartening.

Depending on what preferences you ‘clipwrapped’ them, the MOVs could just be the H.264 video stream (which is AVCHD video) with Quicktime wrappers so the Mac Quicktime will play them. However if you choose to in Clipwrap you can actually do a transcode to Prores as well or just keep the MTS video and convert the AVCHD audio to LPCM, which at the time I needed to do to get pluraleyes to be able to properly read the audio.

Other than the H.264 MTS video stream, I’m not sure if there is any relevant metadata in the files. The people at Clipwrap are really good at supporting their products if you have more specific info.

I believe with Prelude or Premiere Pro you can add metadata to video files, to be either stored in the files or in ‘side carrier xml files, if that will help you. I have done a little bit of that in hopes of storing logging info, I know it holds transcription /script data because I have done that. I also believe there are good utilities to add metadata to video files, such as Philip Hodgetts Intelligent Assistance software.

By the way, I have a Podcast about Cinema stuff and Mac Tech, called TechMove (techmovepodcast.com), you can look it up on iTunes, where we talk about this kind of tech and all kinds of stuff. Check it out if you have a moment.

-Keith