Codec Quest: Perfect cross-platform, cross agency render codec?

Okay I will admit ProRes is very nice Codec, but why doesn't the buyer just download the h264 and transcode? After all most of the argument for h264 is it is what the camera shoots natively in. Tome it's like shooting in jpeg and taking the file to TIFF or PSD to edit in. No one would edit in jpeg but it doesn't mean its not a good storage or transfer file type.

Cinec is a standalone product.

Cinec has my ears perked (haven't seen the price yet) : http://www.cinemartin.com/cinec/plin/

4K Footage Studio already does the conversion from (anything) to ProRes on Windows ... better than Miraizon, but it's a standalone, which is a pain.

Going Hackintosh (which I've considered) would basically be a standalone route, unless I used the Apple boot to also edit, which would make sense. I'm just trying to unify my system, not spread it out over more apps.

Pizza dough? Good one!~

Unfortunately the plugin comes a a bundle along with the standalone version and better not look at the price.

"What I wonder about is why can't ProRes be generated nicely from AE or Vegas if Footage Studio can do it so well? "

Missed this.Apparently prores exporting through windows is a grey area.Standalone products use a frontend and various flavours of 32-bit ffmpeg decoder libraries (haven't heard about 64-bit support yet),so implementation in a suite that uses it's own libraries for it's engine makes this complicated.Plus plain luck of support for these endeavours and perhaps possible legal issues?
Unless apple allows licencing of prores through windows we will be stuck with workarounds and apple isn't going to do that.That's one of their selling points for their machines why should it be allowed to be licenced on windows and linux?

Yes - staggering. Gold is too much for my purposes, but giving up the advanced h.265 encoding is a tough one. I don't think I can even justify the cost of the Pro package ... drat.

That thing with Apple is actually one major reason I'll never buy an Apple product.

I'll probably end up making an animation preset (or a custom LUT) just to counteract the funky PJPEG color/gamma thing and call it good. If I am working on one of my primo clips that I think deserves the attention, I'll continue to render out Uncompressed Master from AE, then transcode that to ProResHQ in both resolutions for delivery to agencies using 4K Footage Studio. Royal PITA, but there you go.

http://videohive.net/forums/thread/h264-or-photo-jpeg-for-stock-footage/81971?page=2

Interesting conversation about codecs here.

Nooooooooooo ...

News: In a very thorough apparent suicide, an Alaskan videographer hacks his own head off with chainsaw after gouging his eyes out with a bit of plastic believed to be from a smashed PC-based computer. Preliminary findings suggest that he was under the influence of PJPEG (Photo-JPEG), a powerful yet imperfect codec believed to cause great confusion in some of its users. Similar intoxicants such as Prores and h.264 have also been shown to induce an almost religious fervor if used to excess. Authorities are considering strong measures to curb the proliferation of these drugs, but public consensus shows a contempt not unusual in that most queried believe that as usual, the government actions are "too little, too late". The man, as yet un-named, except for the strange moniker "Mizamook" is survived by his wife Michele, who is not too distraught: "At least I don't have to listen to him babbling about codecs anymore" she says.

hahahha I love it.

RIP Miz.

Indeed ... and he just sold a Miraizon clip ... if only he knew ...