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Cobra44Magnum Posted at 2017-4-20 05:27
I bought the ProRes license and have used it for multiple flights. However, unless you need the 5K resolution or are going to do some heavy post-production work, I wouldn't buy it. I bought mine because of the possibility of some commercial work. Even then, I found that some prospective customers want H.264 or H.265 because the end result will be highly compressed and they won't be doing much color grading/correcting. Don't get me wrong, it looks great and is nice to not have to transcode to an editor-friendly format but the files are huge (actually limited to 4GB each but there are MANY 4GB files) and the end result for my content is not that much (if any) different. I take H.265 files from my X5S and transcode them to ProRes with Brorsoft before using them in FCPX. In Vegas Pro 14 I have it create proxy files to edit with.
Anyway, I'm definitely not bad-mouthing the ProRes solution but it adds quite a bit of cost to the equation and may not garner any additional benefit. It depends on the intended use of the files.
That is exactly what I wanted/needed to know. Thanks brotha. I'm gonna hold off, indefinitely. Maybe one day but no time soon. Anyway, thanks again. |
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