I've been so Mac centric I've not had to deal with ProRes in a PC world for a long time. It has been my understanding for quite a while the best way to export ProRes out of avid is to do a video mixdown to prores and then export that same as source. This bypasses any involvement in the QT engine that is notorious for slight level/gamma shifts. I'm assuming this is still true.
I'm helping out a post sup on a new show and they don't seem to have the ProRes codec on their systems. I'm not sure if they are PC or mac but sounds like PC to me. Wouldn't any mac have ProRes Codec available or is the the difference between reading ProRes and writing? I know without a QTPro license I could not export from QT 7Pro. All my macs have FCP7 installed so they got the QT 7Pro license. Is it possible that a new mac could not have the ability to write a ProRes file unless somthing like compressor etc... is installed. In such a situation be it PC or Mac would an internal video mixdown to ProRes exported same as source to a .mov create a proper ProRes QT? That's the impression I've gotten over the years. If this is correct then it appears Avid can write a prores file internally or render to prores without the need for the QT codecs. Am I understanding this correctly?
John Moore Barking Trout Productions Studio City, CA bigfish@pacbell.net
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this is the Avid-L2
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