[Max Ferrara]

thanks for that command line, will test it

[Max Ferrara]

If it doesn’t work in Windows Player and Vegas fails too, you surely have problems with the system codecs. More exactly, you have a forced codec, probably by accident, which is on the preferred list but fails to load.

Use Windows Media Player Classic Homecinema to see which one is it if you don’t have other tools, it shows the full filter tree for a video, forced and compatible filters too. Even more, it allows color management and 10bit output on compatible hardware.

This is the first time I read about issues with prores on Windows and Linux, or with 5dtorgb, you have to find what’s causing it.

[Max Ferrara]

5dtorgb prores encoding in mov container worked on my system with both sony vegas 11 & 12. in avi container Vegas 12 doesn’t open it, but i can play it in any player including Windows Media Player. I don’t remember if Vegas 11 was able open prores avi, sorry.
You probably have a very old quicktime player for windows if Vegas can’t open them. the bad part is that Vegas is using the Apple Quicktime codec to open prores or other type of .mov files, so you must keep it updated.

The track properties in Vegas shows ” Apple ProRes 422 ” for the video stream.

The new one, Cinec, works too as prores encoder and Vegas 12 opens its files. The current trial is 2 cores limited, if the final is unlimited it should be really fast.

[Max Ferrara]

When you say Sony HD camera I think you are referring to a Handycam, not a professional Sony camera. In that case you don’t need an intermediate compressed or lossless format. Just edit your clips as they are in Vegas. You can set a more than an 8 bit workspace if you use many filters.

If you need to cut them to save hdd space or to create a movie from images (you can just import that project in another project, no need to render it) then you can use an mp4 compression with at least 24mbps and it’ll be just fine. As far as I know, no Handycam records better than that.

Cineform and 5dtorgb are good at resampling the red channel, so you can use them for that task if you need that feature, otherwise there’s no need.
Or you could use Prores or DNxHD but it wouldn’t help you either.
Use 5dtorgb, Zeranoe FFmpeg or Cinemartin Cinec as free prores encoders and import back in Vegas when done. It’ll also be slower to edit than your source.

[Max Ferrara]

Hi, i was reading this thread today and just wanted to remind you that the following is really not true.

“No. There is no way to get there from a Windows computer period. It is a proprietary Apple format that can only be created on a Mac.”

there are both freeware or opensource Prores codecs as well as commercial ones.

5dtorgb has a free version for win x64 which encodes Prores in an avi container which plays on Mac if needed. Also FFmpeg supports Prores and it actually encodes faster than the Apple codec, check reduser forums for more benchmarks on this. Another codec is called ffmbc.

One new codec is Cinemartin Cinec, which is offered as free trial at this time. There’s a commercial codec as plugin for many programs called Drastics MediaReactor Workstation.