{"id":146,"date":"2009-08-03T10:59:28","date_gmt":"2009-08-03T17:59:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wellys.org\/wellysblog\/?p=146"},"modified":"2009-08-03T10:59:28","modified_gmt":"2009-08-03T17:59:28","slug":"fcp-7-and-prores","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.wellys.org\/wellysblog\/?p=146","title":{"rendered":"FCP 7 and ProRes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">FCP 7 introduces a 3 new HD codecs for production work, ProRes 4444, ProRes 422 (LT) and ProRes 422 (Proxy). With these additions, this brings to five versions of HD codecs \u00c2\u00a0available for production work. I did a simple comparison of Flip H.264 transcoding to all 5 versions, knowing full well that I wasn&#8217;t starting with the best source material.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The only version where I could see a difference was with ProRes 422 (Proxy). There were artifacts and a loss of detail. LT looked great, with no perceptible differences on up to 4444. Which means given the source, the best I could use is LT. That said, I did have striking differences in gamma between the new codecs looking identical to the source material and the &#8220;older&#8221; codecs, 422 and 422 (HQ) being much darker and losing details in the shadows.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I&#8217;ve tried to understand the gamma shift issue regarding H.264 and QT&#8230; this looks to add more confusion to the mix.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">For me, going forward, \u00c2\u00a0I&#8217;ll transcode the Flip to ProRes 422 (LT) then use it in FCP. I still need to test using ProRes 422 (LT) in iMovie.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FCP 7 introduces a 3 new HD codecs for production work, ProRes 4444, ProRes 422 (LT) and ProRes 422 (Proxy). With these additions, this brings to five versions of HD codecs \u00c2\u00a0available for production work. I did a simple comparison of Flip H.264 transcoding to all 5 versions, knowing full well that I wasn&#8217;t starting &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wellys.org\/wellysblog\/?p=146\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;FCP 7 and ProRes&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[14,17,33],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pvRD1-2m","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":118,"url":"http:\/\/www.wellys.org\/wellysblog\/?p=118","url_meta":{"origin":146,"position":0},"title":"iMovie 09 and Flip Ultra HD","date":"June 21, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"There seem to be a few questions as to the compatibility of the Flip Ultra HD and iMovie 09. \u00c2\u00a0The Flip Ultra HD and iMovie work great together! 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