Sooooooo.........
That's a speedy tour through what COWs have been saying, and in some cases NOT saying, about ProRes 422. Here are a few more tidbits
Name: David Roth Weiss
Date: May 28, 2007 at 11:09:02 am
Subject: Re: I've been staring at the FS2 box for weeks now.
I don't think the potential of ProRes422 has been explored and realized yet. I believe it may ultimately be recognizd as the hot item to come out in FCS2 and I think that by this time next year, if not sooner, many of us may well be working in ProRes422 most of the time.
And now you know why.
As I mentioned in the beginning, part 2, covering Color and HDV, is on its way next week. Here are some previews:
Name: sirmausalot
Date: May 29, 2007 at 5:01:25 am
Subject: Re: HDV editing in Final Cut Studio 2 - for graeme
...After a bit of consideration, I'd suggest capturing and editing in native HDV and doing all effects in Pro Res 422. According to the manual, this should be easy to set up. This workflow will give you the most efficent use of disk space, highest quality picture, and good rendering times.
Name: Graeme Nattress
Date: May 21, 2007 at 4:36:39 pm
Subject: Re: HDV editing in Final Cut Studio 2
And that's why I'm so pleased about ProRes, so people can now use it as a properly designed, full raster, high quality intermediate codec and stop using DVCproHD which was never designed for it.
And there's my boy chawla....
Name: chawla
Date: May 23, 2007 at 10:30:05 am
Subject: have you actually tried this? Its WILDLY messed up
...every single clip of every single HDV sequence I've passed to Color from an HDV sequence and then rendered out in ProRes and then sent back has been consistently out of sync with the original clip. by like 20 frames on average. When Color renders, its flubbing which frames to send back somehow. And if I only render some clips and not others, the not rendered ones are fine on return (which makes sense seeing as how Color hasn't had its dirty little hands on them yet). And nope, it ain't the the DF/NDF thing, I'm only working with 720P24 and rendering to same in ProRes which also ain't DF.
Will chawla find a solution for his ProRes problems in Apple Color? What mysteries of HDV workflow will we uncover?
How many more ProRes threads are going to show up in the coming week?
For all of this and more, tune in next week!!
In the meantime, I'll end with the rest of Wayne Carey's quote that began our tour through The COW's collected ProRes wisdom thus far:
Name: Wayne Carey
Date: May 29, 2007 at 8:39:54 am
Subject: Re: I've been staring at the FS2 box for weeks now.
Something to keep in mind, guys....
Apple's ProRes 422 is AWESOME!
BUT, if you have been working in a format like DVCProHD or another high compression format, ProRes 422 does cost you much more drive space than you are used to using. If you are already an editor using Uncompressed 8-bit or 10-bit, then the transition will be very painless and easy.
Do some tests, manage your media and play with it before you start a project that uses ProRes entirely.
Good advice for any new workflow, and all the more important for new technologies.
See you next time!
