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It was for me at least. I've found a solution for encoding ProRes on Windows.. it's not the MOST elegant, but it's strides above other solutions with command line prompts. You'll need to render out a "master" render from AE before you transcode it to ProRes. For what it's worth, I render my masters at QuickTime - PhotoJpeg - 98% quality. This codec seems to keep the image pristine while also keeping file-size SUPER SMALL. Here's a quick tutorial on converting your master render to ProRes. To localize this "program" make a new folder somewhere on your PC, Inside that folder, make a folder called FFMpeg. Go to this page http://ffmpeg.zeranoe.com/builds/ and download the latest 64-bit or 32-bit version (I'm using 64-bit - http://ffmpeg.zeranoe.com/builds/win64/static/ ) It'll download a .7z file. it's basically like a zip file. (I use WinRAR) and un-zip it into that folder called FFMpeg we made. Then, go download this program called "AnotherGUI" under step 2 of this page: http://www.stuudio.ee/anothergui/ Unzip that file into the first main folder you made (not the FFMpeg one, but the parent directory of it) Then run AnotherGUI.exe It'll ask you if you want to load sample presets.. click yes, then OK. Now click Add Source at the top, and go add your source video. then where it says Preset in the main program window, click that and go find FCP and choose the ProRes version you want (Double click it) Once you're at this stage, just make sure your output path is where you want it with the top right button. And check the output file-name in the right column on the main screen. make sure it's not going to try to overwrite the original. Don't include a file extension on this column. What's nice is you can import image sequences or batch multiple video files all at once. Works with everything I've thrown at it. When you click the "Go button", the first time it'll bring up a dialog box asking you where ffmpeg.exe is.. go into that FFMpeg folder we created earlier, then go into the "bin" folder and select the "ffmpeg.exe" file. You should only have to do this once. If you want to get advanced, you can click the "edit" button under the Preset and mess around with settings in there.. on the second line of the edit screen's area, with all of the variables shown, there's one that says -vcodec prores -provile:v 0 If you change the profile number you can have all versions of ProRes. For different flavors of ProRes replace NUMBER with a number from zero to 3 where: 0 : ProRes422 (Proxy) 1 : ProRes422 (LT) 2 : ProRes422 (Normal) 3 : ProRes422 (HQ) Here's a page with more info if you want to dive into the advanced stuff with the edit window. http://transcoding.wordpress.com/2012/01/29/prores-ffmpeg/ Anyway, That's it! I just found this last week, after a client of mine needed ProRes files for final delivery, and I offered to send master files for them to convert at their studio. It wasn't a big issue for them, but in the end, it'd be much more professional and nicer to just be able to provide them straight from my end. > mike cardeiro > Monday, February 11, 2013 9:20 AM > > The decoder may be free, but the OP is talking about encoding, which, > as far as I know is not free on pc. Personally I am getting tired of > everybody I deal with assuming that pro rez is no problemo for me. I > recently needed to upload a commercial spot for a station and the > specs said they wanted prorez, and the instructions sent from the > station talked about how to do this from your final cut project which > would all be well and good if I wasn't editing on Avid! sorry to rant > but it is Monday morning. > > Mike Cardeiro > Editor/Animator/Compositor > D4 Creative Group - Philadelphia, PA > > http://www.michaelcardeiro.com/resume/ > http://www.youtube.com/user/mcardeiro > > +---End of message---+ > To unsubscribe send any message to --------------080903010209060904070506 Content-Type: multipart/related; boundary="------------050701050300020503010908" --------------050701050300020503010908 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit OK, this is probably very big for a lot of you. It was for me at least.


I've found a solution for encoding ProRes on Windows.. it's not the MOST elegant, but it's strides above other solutions with command line prompts. You'll need to render out a "master" render from AE before you transcode it to ProRes.  For what it's worth, I render my masters at QuickTime - PhotoJpeg - 98% quality. This codec seems to keep the image pristine while also keeping file-size SUPER SMALL.


Here's a quick tutorial on converting your master render to ProRes.

To localize this "program" make a new folder somewhere on your PC, Inside that folder, make a folder called FFMpeg.

Go to this page http://ffmpeg.zeranoe.com/builds/ and download the latest 64-bit or 32-bit version (I'm using 64-bit - http://ffmpeg.zeranoe.com/builds/win64/static/ )

It'll download a .7z file. it's basically like a zip file. (I use WinRAR) and un-zip it into that folder called FFMpeg we made.

Then, go download this program called "AnotherGUI" under step 2 of this page:
http://www.stuudio.ee/anothergui/

Unzip that file into the first main folder you made (not the FFMpeg one, but the parent directory of it)

Then run AnotherGUI.exe

It'll ask you if you want to load sample presets.. click yes, then OK.


Now click Add Source at the top, and go add your source video.

then where it says Preset in the main program window, click that and go find FCP and choose the ProRes version you want (Double click it)

Once you're at this stage, just make sure your output path is where you want it with the top right button.

And check the output file-name in the right column on the main screen. make sure it's not going to try to overwrite the original. Don't include a file extension on this column.


What's nice is you can import image sequences or batch multiple video files all at once.

Works with everything I've thrown at it.

When you click the "Go button", the first time it'll bring up a dialog box asking you where ffmpeg.exe is.. go into that FFMpeg folder we created earlier, then go into the "bin" folder and select the "ffmpeg.exe" file. You should only have to do this once.

If you want to get advanced, you can click the "edit" button under the Preset and mess around with settings in there..

on the second line of the edit screen's area, with all of the variables shown, there's one that says -vcodec prores -provile:v 0
If you change the profile number you can have all versions of ProRes.

For different flavors of ProRes replace NUMBER with a number from zero to 3 where:
0 : ProRes422 (Proxy)
1 : ProRes422 (LT)
2 : ProRes422 (Normal)
3 : ProRes422 (HQ)

Here's a page with more info if you want to dive into the advanced stuff with the edit window.

http://transcoding.wordpress.com/2012/01/29/prores-ffmpeg/

 
Anyway, That's it!  I just found this last week, after a client of mine needed ProRes files for final delivery, and I offered to send master files for them to convert at their studio. It wasn't a big issue for them, but in the end, it'd be much more professional and nicer to just be able to provide them straight from my end.










Monday, February 11, 2013 9:20 AM

The decoder may be free, but the OP is talking about encoding, which, as far as I know is not free on pc.  Personally I am getting tired of everybody I deal with assuming that pro rez is no problemo for me.  I recently needed to upload a commercial spot for a station and the specs said they wanted prorez, and the instructions sent from the station talked about how to do this from your final cut project which would all be well and good if I wasn't editing on Avid!  sorry to rant but it is Monday morning.

Mike Cardeiro
Editor/Animator/Compositor                
D4 Creative Group - Philadelphia, PA   
           
http://www.michaelcardeiro.com/resume/
http://www.youtube.com/user/mcardeiro

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