#PRORES CODEC PRO#

#PRORES CODEC PRO#

I can still remember how the legacy Final Cut Pro on my old Mac was struggling with H.264 footage while having no problems with other, less compressed codecs. It was not supposed to be the common editing codec вЂ“ and for good reason: The high compression rate required powerful hardware to decode the footage when editing. Initially, H.264 was primarily meant to be a delivery codec for a finished edit. Most of us will be familiar with video codecs like H.264 (AVC) and the more recent H.265 (HEVC) but while these have now become ubiquitous вЂњall-in-oneвЂќ codecs for capturing, editing and delivery of video content, this wasnвЂ™t always so. But no, iOS/iPadOS didnвЂ™t support ProRes on a system level so LumaFusion couldnвЂ™t either. Years ago I purchased the original Blackmagic Design Pocket Cinema Camera which can record in ProRes and I was really looking forward to having a very compact mobile video production combo with the BMPCC (that, unlike the later BMPCC 4K/6K was actually pocketable) and an iPad running LumaFusion for editing. ProRes is a high-quality video codec that gives a lot of flexibility for grading in post and is easy on the hardware while editing. One of the things that always surprised me about AppleвЂ™s mobile operating system iOS (and now also iPadOS) was the fact that it wasnвЂ™t able to work with AppleвЂ™s very own professional video codec ProRes. ProRes logo and iPhone12 Pro Max image: Apple.

Prores codec