[Jeff Fust]

That is a DSLR sequence preset and you cannot edit presets. However, if you switch the first drop-down menu from DSLR to Custom, then the other settings will no longer be grayed out and you can make a custom sequence that has whatever video preview resolution you prefer. Once your settings are correct, then you can save it as a preset so you won’t have to do this step every time.

I agree there should already be a preset for working in Apple Pro-Res and/or other preview resolutions as well, or at least the option to change the setting manually after the sequence is set up, but we all know Apple, Adobe and Avid don’t play well with each other 🙂
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Jeff Fust
Producer/Editor
Pax et Bonum Communications

[Jeff Fust]

Hi Gary,

Very informative post, thanks. I had a couple more specific questions about this.

What do you mean when you say the plain version of pro-res just “allows the 8bit camera file to just float inside the 10bit color space – only adding the extra information to the video file when it is needed, rather than forcing all of those 768 additional levels of gray to be occupied all the time like the PRHQ version does.” Are you saying that the standard Apple pro-res codec would leave an 8bit source in the 255 color map, and would only switch to a 1024 color map if coming from a true 10bit source?

Also, based on my visual tests I cannot tell any difference from a pro-res vs. pro-res hq if coming from an 8 bit source so I agree with you there. But wouldn’t you still benefit from compressing to pro-res hq if you’re going to the color grading process being that there are 1024 gradations of the image available as opposed to just 255?

Any feedback would be appreciated!