Miraizon Prores

My guess is without QT installed none of the ProRes will work. If QT completely dies or becomse corrupted because Apple disables it then ProRes on PC may be over. I really expect Abobe to make a deal with Apple some day.

I'll ask them about that too.

I was curious myself how the Footage Studio ProRes works ... and almost tempted to uninstall Quicktime from my machine and see if it still works. I might just do that ...

For what it's worth, yes, Footage Studio ProRes does come up as ProRes on a Mac.

Another option:

http://nofilmschool.com/2015/06/gopros-cineform-now-industry-standard-codec

Cineform is cool, but ... do all the stock agencies accept it? Nothing worse than having to re-encode just for one agency or other ...

I haven't tested it in a while though.

One of my biggest problems is 4K in Cineform or PNG just take far too long to render and save. Both MiR ProRes and P JPEG render and save rather quickly. I can't afford to spend 15-30 minutes rendering and saving a 4K 30 second clip that long.

I import the footage, mess with it (sometimes for hours) render to uncompressed .avi, import into Footage Studio, render to ProResHQ, and render to 300mb/s h.264 for upload. I'd love to eliminate the Footage Studio step. Hell, I'd love to eliminate the h.264, but if I didn't, my files are uploading at a rate of 2 or 3 a day at best. But that's internet issues, not codec issues.

Between last post and this one I remember some kind of "issue" with Cineform ... not rendering right out of After Effects ... but that was a while back. (crashed, or something ... sorry can't remember what the problem was , I got bored and did somthing else)

Has anyone tried the free, open source editor Shotcut? It seems that it can also export to ProRes, but I am not able to judge quality and performance.
https://www.shotcutapp.com/

I was kinda excited about it for a short time, but found the interface to be absurd, and bothersome. There were also errors, I think, but I might be remembering that incorrectly. Third party is a PITA, and because I have tried both ShotCut and 4K Footage Studio, I can say with some authority that the latter has the clear edge (actually very easy to use and great results)

Hoping to hear back from the email to the other Windows ProREs Encoder guys tomorrow ...

https://windowsprores.com/

Are not responding to the email I sent last week. I do not take being snubbed lightly ... in my experience, such usually means they either have something to be ashamed of, have a bad product, or do not take customer service seriously.

Occasionally I find it was because they were in labor, or busy with something that could not be helped. But usually I find that they are not willing to answer hard questions BEFORE I give them money ... such means that they will likely say "We have "real professionals" using our product and they are happy ... you are not, so you are beneath our consideration." Which, for the record, is what Miraizon basically told me.

I wrote again, shorter. Hope to hear from them soon.

Best option to get high quality ProRes422 HQ is to buy an old mac, mac mini, iMac or whatever you find and and use it as a batch network render machine. You can easily set up a watch folder and it will render any project or file that is saved inside that folder. Since Adobe let's install their software on 2 computers, you can install Adobe CC on the mac and the other one on your main PC. In my opinion this is the best workaround to get real ProRes.