Reports from the Field
A walk through ProRes flavours

A short presentation on history, usage and challenges of this popular video codec by Reto Kromer, followed by an informal Q&A session and light refreshments. The point of view of the audio-visual archive is adopted. Most probably, this meeting will be bilingual German and French without translation.

Thursday the 3rd of May 2018, starting at 10 o’clock sharp, at our company AV Preservation by reto.ch in Écublens (a suburb of Lausanne, Switzerland).

The admission is free, but an inscription is required, as the places are very limited in our small facility.

Topics

The ProRes 422 family
  • ProRes 422 HQ
  • ProRes 422
  • ProRes 422 LT
  • ProRes 422 Proxy
The ProRes 4444 family
  • ProRes 4444 XQ
  • ProRes 4444
The New ProRes RAW flavour
What do we know yet about the new Bayer-based formats, presented by Apple on the 4th of April 2018? Is it an alternative to the CineForm RAW (VC-5) video codec for movie film scanners?
From QuickTime to Matroska (or Material eXchange Format)
As Apple discontinued the support of their proprietary QuickTime (.mov) container, archives should re-wrap their ProRes 422 and 4444 files into Matroska (.mkv) during the next data migration. Such files can be normally played with the VLC media player. And, in a near future, the Material eXchange Format (.mxf) container should offer another possibility to re-wrap ProRes 422 and 4444 files.

Notes

  • Once again on the ProRes flavours is a kind of sequel of this meeting.
  • We are very unhappy that our generosity is often betrayed, as many of our materials are distributed without naming their origin. Increasingly, others are even shamelessly claiming authorship of our work, which is just disgusting behaviour. And that’s the very reason why some resources are no longer freely available, but have been moved to password-protected parts of our website.

2024-02-09