Workflow and playback for Uncompressed 10-bit is choppy on my Mac Pro.

[Matt Lyon]

[David Roth Weiss] “BTW, all the great stuff you discovered about FCP time-stamping audio files makes you a techno force to be reckoned with, so I certainly don’t doubt your technical chops one bit. I just think you might be assuming that ProRes is less friendly than it really is.”

Thanks David. Don’t worry, I have a thick skin and am always happy to learn something new 🙂

I realized I was quoting my info based on Apple’s system requirements page for ProRes. But that was for HD playback, so yeah, SD ProRes on non Intel hardware is a different can of worms.

But that being said, this post by Gary Adcock seems to suggest that there are quality losses when playing ProRes on non Intel hardware:

https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/8/1024925

Whereas, I’m pretty sure that isn’t the case with uncompressed 10 bit material.

Matt Lyon
Editor
Toronto