Encoding to ProRes

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IceMajor
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Encoding to ProRes

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Description of problem or question: How do I encode to ProRes?




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Hi, I wanted to encode my videos to ProRes since I've got them in MPEG-4 AVC. I've heard it's useful to get better quality when there's a lot of effects put on the video + it's also more convienient when editing. However, I have no clue how to do it. I've been googling and messing around in the software itself, but I was unable to find the solution.
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Re: Encoding to ProRes

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Re: Encoding to ProRes

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Encoding them again with a lossy codec isn't going to improve quality.

For convenience when editing you could use one of the Production presets in HB.
IceMajor
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Re: Encoding to ProRes

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mduell wrote: Sun Dec 19, 2021 4:28 pm Encoding them again with a lossy codec isn't going to improve quality.

For convenience when editing you could use one of the Production presets in HB.
User on Reddit told me something else. He compared it to saving a .jpg file as .tiff. Even if you say, it's not going to improve quality, I'd still like to test it and verify on my own.
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Re: Encoding to ProRes

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HandBrake doesn't encode to ProRes though.
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Re: Encoding to ProRes

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Hi IceMajor,
You can use DaVinci Resolve (free version) to transcode your MPEG-4 AVC to ProRes. The big difference between ProRes and the file format you have now is that in ProRes there is no mathematical relationship from one frame to the next. Each frame is an images compressed on its own. Because of that, scrubbing a timeline in a video editor is super easy and fast. If you put your MPEG-4 AVC directly in the timeline, each frame is calculated according to what the previous ones were, in a group of picture (GOP) and that takes a lot of processing power, especially when trying to scrub backwards. The quality may or may not be better, depending on your settings, but the ease of use is worth the time it takes to transcode before editing.
You can watch a video on youtube on how to transcode your media in Davinci Resolve, it's very simple.
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