Help me understand Prores.
Help me understand Prores better and how or where is the best to use it.
I shoot on a Sony Z1, capture from camera edit HDV on timeline. I Do a bit of color correction using Magic Bullet and adjust levels, some fades, titles and lower thirds(supers). I then would render out to mpeg-2 for DVD burning. I have read so much about Prores I’m back to where I started… clueless Why would I want to use prores/ what benefits would I see? Nick |
This question gets asked a lot, there should be a sticky thread for ProRes. Jason said it best so I'll just quote him.
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Thanks Pete,
Great post from Jason. I wonder how much resoultion is lost in capturing prores. I see some editors edit in HDV and then render out to prores, this is what I dont understand. Why would you render out to prores 422 if the next step is to encode for DVD? Nick |
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The other option is to transcode to Apple Intermediate Codec (AIC) upon capturing. Some people with better Apple post production knowledge than mine could explain to you the disadvantages of AIC as compared to ProRes apart from the format supported being much more limited. However, I can point out to you the advantages:
-Smaller file sizes than ProRes, thus saving you some disk space but still 3-4x the sizes of the original HDV footage -Editing faster than ProRes, most Apple notebooks and iMacs can handle it very well with no issues. -Transcoded clips or files can be exported to and edited in Final Cut Express and iMovie to save you time and money for certain tasks as both NLEs don't support ProRes. I've done much of my work acquiring the footage in HDV and outputting the finished videos on SD DVDs using the AIC workflow and the results have been fine. I think compressing the final output (from AIC to MPEG-2) is more critical to the quality of the DVDs than the use of AIC or ProRes. Someone may have a different view, though. Wacharapong |
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