The target data rate is approximately 147 mbps at 1920x1080 and 29. Lc experience or existing holdings, the civil rights history project in. Avidqualified video codecs for pro tools 11, 12, 2018 and 2019 pro tools 2019. Target data rate of approximately 220 mbps 1920 x 1080 at 60i higher quality than apple prores 422 apple prores 422 the apple prores 422 codec provides the following. Just to clarify something, the difference between prores 422 and prores 422 hq has nothing to do with sd versus hd. Apple prores 422 hq the apple prores 422 hq codec offers the utmost possible quality for 4. This is like 422 hq but with 66% of the target data rate and file size. Before this update, bmpcc could record in prores hq or raw, but now, it can record also in apple prores 422, apple prores 422 lt and apple prores 422 proxy. Prores was first developed as a codec to be used in final cut pro x. Quick links audio drivers pro tools updates how to videos avid product.
Apple prores 422 hq is the highest datarate version of the prores. The apple prores 422 hq codec offers the utmost possible quality for 4. Prores 422 uses a variable bitrate compression scheme in which complex scenes are less compressed than basic or static scenes, so the quality is distributed as needed to maximize the efficiency of the codec for the best possible image. Prores 4444 xq is supported on os x mountain lion v10.
Prores encoder for windows and mac convert video to prores 4444 422 duration. The regular version of the compressor will produce quicktimes with a maximum data rate of 145 mbps at 1920x1080x60i. A big part of that ultimate quality is determined right at the time of capture, by the capture codec we choose to use. Choose the version of prores best suited to your project 4k. Apple introduced the prores 422 video codec for final cut studio 2. So, in my mind, unless youre viewing your material overlayed on another version of itself with a difference mode applied and the gamma ramped up, its gonna look almost the same, but use less space. For 1080i, the prores 422 data rate is 145mbps, and theres also an hq setting with a 220mbps rate. I get the difference between 422 422lt and 422 proxy. Apple prores 422 hq is a higherdatarate version of apple prores. Theres no question we all wish to make the highest quality films possible using the various cameras available to us. Comparison of istent procedure recorded using prores hq against same surgery recorded on a medicapture mvr lite h. Prores 422 hq offers even greater headroom to preserve the quality of even the most demanding, complex material with no visible artifacts. Apple prores 422 is a highquality compressed codec offering nearly all the benefits of apple prores 422 hq, but at 66 percent of the data rate for even better multistream, realtime editing performance.