[Daniel Ray]

Hey, everybody, so me and the guys from the VFX house decided to go with ProRes 4444. My computer can handle that kind of codec. But answering your recent posts, I used to own a G4 and ProRes was always friendly to edit in that system but I think, like my situation with my Mac Pro, some G4 and G5 doesn’t have all the necessary processing specs to handle and need certain upgrades. Since ProRes 4444 is still a “compressed” format, I’d still like to upgrade my speed drive to handle 10-Bit Uncompressed or even 12-bit in case I need to work with them in the future. Big thanks, everybody!

[Daniel Ray]

Hi, Joseph, thanks for the detailed explanation, it shed a lot of light on what I’ll need to improve my Mac Pro. Unfortunately, I can’t go with Pro Res 422 because there’ll be a lot of compositing and keying, and this digibeta footage was shot on green screen in 1998. Yep, 1998, so to prevent a lot of artifacting and noise issues, the best route is edit everything through Uncompressed 10-bit. I just gotta upgrade my workstation to ensure I can handle and I wanted to make suer I needed one before purchasing one. Again, thanks for your answer.