Cross-Platform ProRes decoder released - Apple sucks less!

[Bruce Allen]

Free cross-platform ProRes decoder:

http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/appleproresquicktimedecoder10formac.html

http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/appleproresquicktimedecoder10forwindows.html

Good grief...

All that they need to do now is give you an offline mode, alpha channels and encode functionality for free and they'll have caught up to where Avid is now.

Bruce Allen
www.boacinema.com

 

[Steve Freebairn]

This is a big step forward for apple, I'm glad they finally did this. I agree with Bruce though, you'd think when Apple ripped of DNXHD, they'd at least rip all of it off and include alpha and such.

 

[Nils Ruinet]

Great, thanks for letting us know.

 

[Miguel "Macgregor" De Olaso]

Almost as good as being able to open RED QTs in a PC...

 

[Noah Kadner]

Finally! ProRes is a lovely codec and now cross-platform? Very nice. :weight_lift:

-Noah

 

[John Tissavary]

I'm excited, but only a little. This is a decoder, not a codec - I do not believe encoding is part of the deal.

Still, a huge improvement; kudos to Apple.


regards,

John T.

 

[Dylan Reeve]

I don't see, technically, why you shouldn't be able to use DNxHD natively in FCP - but you can't, sadly. That is an improvement in some ways, but I still want to be able to generate ProRes from AE in Windows.

 

[laguun]

Apples Prores sucks a little bit less now indeed. As long the encoder is missing no one will be able use it to author. Simply stupid tactics.

At least the Management should be clever enough to sell the encoder part. Closed codecs, even Apple and Sony understand that, are a thing of the past.

 

[Jay A. Kelley]

Prores

8 or 10 bit 4:2:2; and my source files are 16 or 32bit 4:4:4?

no thanks.. Next please...

Jay

 

[Greg M]

its an offline codec Jay.

 

[Scott Simmons]

its an offline codec Jay.

Well not really as it's most certainly being sold by Apple as a finishing codec, just compressed!

The funny thing is that even though ProRes doesn't offer all the bit depth and color space that RED footage "really" requires I'd bet that at this point in time over half of all RED jobs convert to ProRes and stay there.

 

[Jay A. Kelley]

its an offline codec Jay.

I don' t do "offline"

But then, I don' t edit in 4k either!!

Truth be told, 3K is my best friend...

Jay

 

[Obin Olson]

prores is a sucky codec, I am so happy Red is making an importer for adobe of NATIVE r3d...

looking at NATIVE r3d files in all the high resolution glory will grow on you faster then expected.

 

[Kaku Ito]

I already decided to stick to Cineform.