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    Curious to know if anyone has a way to transcode prores w a red rocket in redcine x on a windows machine like the one beyond super wrangler. Does anyone have a workaround for transcoding prores on a windows machnine?
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    Does the Super Wrangler convert to ProRes? If it does Apple must have given them the OK because they're tied to very specific hardware. But other than those few exotic solutions you're out of luck. Apple won't let you.
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    high class systems and software can transcode pro res on pc. But i assume they have to pay a large sum to apple to do so. DNXHD is free, cineform is cheap.
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    Wait so dnxhd is compliant with final cut studio? Does it act like prores when it comes to rendering? I was going to transcode dailies to h.264 but ive heard that it's problematic for offline roundtrip back to raw workflows? Help!
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    Yes DNxHD works with Final Cut Pro.

    You can use just about any Quicktime Codec you have installed on your Mac with Final Cut.

    DNxHD gives good results. I prefer ProRes, but that is being very nitpicky, DNxHD is very good and in most applications is indistinguishable from ProRes.

    There is already another thread on a similar topic here:

    http://reduser.net/forum/showthread....971#post591971
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    Quote Originally Posted by Eric Ulbrich View Post
    Wait so dnxhd is compliant with final cut studio? Does it act like prores when it comes to rendering? I was going to transcode dailies to h.264 but ive heard that it's problematic for offline roundtrip back to raw workflows? Help!
    do u mean dailies or just for your offline edit? h264 is terrible to edit with, you'll be rendering ever other second just trying to put a crossfade in. Pro res is made for FCP, FCP is optimized by it, I would stick with that. The term dailies usually means a lower resolution method of viewing your footage and or cut. For viewing purposes it should affect your online cut at all depending on what your offlining with.

    If you are going to edit, i suggest staying with something uniform, and what the software you are using works best with. Pro res would be it, DNXHD is what Avid works best with, and is nice because it's a free visually lossless codec in many different flavors that can go cross platform, cross NLE, because the guru's at Avid were nice enough to release the DNX codec package to be open like that.

    Maybe if you explain the purpose of needing to encode pro res on PC that would help since now you are mentioning FCP I am confused.
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