Apple Releases ProRes QuickTime Decoder 1.0
The Apple ProRes QuickTime Decoder software allows both Mac and Windows users to play Apple ProRes files through QuickTime. Apple ProRes is a visually lossless format that provides uncompressed HD quality at SD data rates.
It is an excellent choice for mastering and can easily be transcoded to distribution formats like H.264. With new support for playback on both Mac and Windows computers, Apple ProRes can also be used for review and approval of Final Cut Studio sequences.
The update is available in a Mac version weighing in at 369 KB and requiring OS X 10.4 or 10.5 and a Windows version weighing in at 273 KB and requiring Windows XP (SP2) or later. Both versions also require QuickTime 7.5 or later.
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I already posted Apple should provide file format standardization guidelines and SDK and services for camera vendors so essentially every image ever captured can be ingested seamlessly into Apple.
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Apple ends up using this format to provide HD downloads through iTunes for Apple TV and eventually everything else, obviously with DRM. Very exciting if you ask me!
Well this obviously means Apple is going to refresh every hardware product they make.
Brilliant comment! I think it also explains those weird fingers we have seen coming out of apple recently.
PREDICTION!Apple ends up using this format to provide HD downloads through iTunes for Apple TV and eventually everything else, obviously with DRM. Very exciting if you ask me!
Nope. This is first and foremost a production format. It is much larger than h.264 and not practical to deliver files with. It's is 6-10 times smaller than uncompressed (we use it at work) but h.264 is much smaller. I don't see Apple moving away from h.264 anytime soon. It is great news for mixed environment studios though. Now Pro-Res can be used on ALL machines even if they are Windows.
Brilliant comment! I think it also explains those weird fingers we have seen coming out of apple recently.
Aw, you're just jealous 'cause you can't do the Vulcan symbol as well as Steve can. :p
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