[Edwin Street]

Hi,

I use Adobe ImageReady. It’s free and it comes with the 30-day trial version of Adobe Photoshop CS2 but it lasts forever.

It’s basically Photoshop CS2 with some features removed.

It’s a great program and can import/export PSD files, BMP, TIFF and others.

Just do a simple Google search and download it.

[Edwin Street]

Cool, thanks for that. Kind of like layers in Photoshop.

Does ProRes4444 only have one extra layer (Alpha Channel)?

And how can I see this extra channel? Do I need to use Motion or After Effects?

[Edwin Street]

The reason I’m asking is that I may be shooting on RED a little down the track and I needed a 4444 file to get my head around.

As you mentioned it may be my drive speed and Final Cut trying to render it to a lower bitrate. I’m using my internal harddrive though, for this experiment, but I don’t know how many RPM it is.

Yes sequence settings are match to clip settings.

Also, what is an alpha channel? How many channels does ProRes4444 have? and how is this linked with graphics.

[Edwin Street]

Thanks, I normally do use Compressor for this but I was curious as to why it changed the IN/OUT points.

Can you go into detail why Compressor should be used rather than this way if you’re exporting the entire sequence?