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Mastering codecs revisited

By On September 2, 2008 · Leave a Comment

A lot of folks were excited by the release of the Windows ProRes 422 decoders for QuickTime last week. It does solve a workflow issue for editors needing to get ProRes material into third party Windows applications, but it doesn’t allow for roundtripping.

The lack of a Windows encoder is only part of [...]

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ProRes 422 – After Effects gotcha

By On June 19, 2007 · 4 Comments

Previous testing of the ProRes codec comparing it the Avid DNxHD codec yielded some unexpected results when Adobe After Effects was used to generate test media. While the Avid codec made the round trip from Media Composer 2.7 to After Effects and back without issue, the ProRes codec showed what appears to be an YUV [...]

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DNxHD vs. ProRes 422 redux

By On June 10, 2007 · 5 Comments

In a previous post on another blog I did a quick and dirty comparison of Avid’s DNxHD and Apple’s ProRes 422 codecs. The test was somewhat flawed in that I compared the codecs within Adobe After Effects CS3. This forced a YUV to RGB conversion. In that test, DNxHD outperformed ProRes. In essence [...]

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