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Who’s Played with ProRes So Far?
I’d really like to know more about it. Is the quality as good as they say it is?
Also, can you copy the ProRes QT component to another non-FCP6 Mac? I’ll take that question one step further. If you can do that, is it possible to capture ProRes with FCP5? I know you won’t get any RT effects, but is capture possible?
I have a machine that nobody actually edits on. It’s just an ingest station. I’d rather not pay for an additional FCS2 upgrade if I don’t have to.
Sean
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You’ll have to pay for the upgrade… you could try what you suggest but I doubt it will work right…
I’ve played with it a bunch, and it’s fab…
Jerry
Apple Certified Trainer
Author: “Jerry Hofmann on Final Cut Pro 4” Click here
Dual 2 gig G5, AJA Kona SD, AJA Kona 2, Huge Systems Array UL3D
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It might actually be against the license terms to do this though…i.e. move the codec over…
dunno…
Jerry
Apple Certified Trainer
Author: “Jerry Hofmann on Final Cut Pro 4” Click here
Dual 2 gig G5, AJA Kona SD, AJA Kona 2, Huge Systems Array UL3D
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I hope it isn’t, and I hope they don’t have a problem with it. IMO, this codec is very crippled if it can only be used on computers with FCP6.
Given the fact that you can’t actually edit ProRes on a non-FCP6 machine with RT Effects, I think that is more than enough to motivate people to upgrade. That alone makes ProRes a “special feature” of FCP6. I should still be allowed to create or at least read that format on any Quicktime machine.
DVCproHD was a different story. That codec involved a license agreement with Panasonic. Not the case with ProRes.
It should be noted that Avid does not provide this kind of restriction:
https://www.avid.com/forms/DNxHDinfo.asp
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