Pro Ress is a video compression format for use in post-production that supports up to 4k.
MPEG STREAMCLIP
Earlier this week, I spent some time converting all the HD footage that's on my hard-drive to be able to edit with, without losing all the quality in the footage itself. The footage is for a documentary we're shooting on another module and the process I'm currently undertaking I feel is highly relevant to this module. We have been taught that we should do with any HD footage we shoot, as doing so will allow it to work more efficiently during the edit, without losing any of the HD quality.
Before doing this, I discovered that the picture quality was highly pixelated and the whole process of editing was intensely sluggish.
The pictures illustrate the process I undertook, and due to this being the first time I've ever converted HD footage before, I wasn't expecting it to be such a long process. However saying that, perhaps one of the reason for it taking such a long time was because all the footage was streaming through my USB 2.0 hard-drive.
When I had completed converting the footage, I was left with the original footage, and the converted footage. The software is now on my laptop, however for some reason the 'Apple pro ress 422' option is not there... the version on the Uni iMacs is the same version I'm currently running on my laptop, and there is next to no information on forums on how to solve this issue, so for now I'll have to stay in the editing suite whilst converting any HD footage.
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