ProRes 422 or ProRes 422 HQ for the 1DC?

Geko — Fri, 04 Apr 2014 14:07:55 GMT

Has anyone done some testing to determine if there is any gain in using the ProRes 422 HQ codec for transcoding the 1DC 4K C-Log footage (over the ProRes 422)?

Re: ProRes 422 or ProRes 422 HQ for the 1DC?

richardgerst — Tue, 08 Apr 2014 21:32:37 GMT

I have done some minimal testing. Most of the time I cannot tell a difference for the short conceptual / music video type web output work I am doing.

My expereince is that if I have a shoot where I had literally no light and tons of noise- eg a single lamp at night at 28k+ ISO and the image is falling apart- then when I go to HQ at high res- then compress to 720p or 1080p, the noise and grain appear a bit better than the lower quality codecs.

For nearly everything else I cannot tell a difference for my own purposes- but if theatrical / big screen projection are your goals as a final desitnation- it may very well be a different story and workflow. So please reach out to others who are working for that level.

Phillip Bloom has a nice post about how he handled some of this (before Premiere was better handling the 1DC) here-

go most of the way down when you read his post- it is a terrific and helpful about how he did the video as well as some basic workflow-

(in the question section #20 from me is where I ask a newbie question about output - haha)

hope this helps!

http://philipbloom.net/2013/03/11/bittenbythefrost/

Re: ProRes 422 or ProRes 422 HQ for the 1DC?

Janekong — Tue, 09 Dec 2014 03:23:03 GMT

If you want to import them into some edit software like FCP. then I suggest you ProRes 422. This will much faster to render and convert in your fcp.

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