Big news for codec nerds – the major free video tool is adding support for Apple’s ProRes format. Spotted on the ffmpeg news feed:
FFmpeg now has a ProRes decoder in master git.
We want to support more raw or 10bit or broadcast codecs. We need samples of the following codecs. If you have some, please upload them to our trac.
Codec name / isom or fourcc
Avid DS Uncompressed SUDS
Avid 1:1 10-bit RGB Packer AVrp
Avid AVC-Intra AVin
Pinnacle TARGA2000 dvr1
Pinnacle TARGA Ciné YUV Y216
BlackMagic Design Vr21
Digital Voodoo DV10 HD10
Media-100 844/X Uncompressed v.2.02 MYUV
Media-100 iFinish Transcoder dtmt dtNT
Accom SphereOUS v.3.0.1 ImJG
Abekas ClipStore MXc J2K Compressed v.3.0.2 HDJ1 HDJK
BitJazz SheerVideo Pro v.2.6.7.6 Shr0 Shr1 Shr2 Shr3 Shr4 Shr5 Shr6 Shr7
BOXX v.1.0 bxrg bxbg bxyv bxy2
LiveType Codec Decompressor pRiz
Cineon DPX 10-bit Y’CbCr 4:2:2 D210 C310 DPX cini
Radius DV YUV PAL/NTSC R420 R411
For people working with ProRes heavily in their workflow, I’d be curious to hear how far along the project is and how it’s working. And if you can help…
And if someone is crazy enough to use ProRes live, well, I’d be curious to hear about that, too!