jfk Posted November 7, 2018 Report Share Posted November 7, 2018 Customer is encoding a video for WATCHOUT. Playback will be solely one 1920x1080@29.97p file, which, even with ProRes codec, should be well within the capabilities of the Show Sage Show*Server used for playback. Customer's question: The encoding tools available offer ProRes Proxy, ProRes LT, ProRes Standard, and ProRes HD - which would be the best choice for WATCHOUT encoding? Can anyone assist with answering this? Note: the customer does not have the server in his possession yet, the movie is being prepared for pre-sale testing in Show Sage's shop. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dchristo Posted November 7, 2018 Report Share Posted November 7, 2018 ProRes 422HQ has been working good for me on Show Sage machines, encoded with Adobe Media Encoder. --D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erik Rönnqvist Posted November 7, 2018 Report Share Posted November 7, 2018 Proxy is lowest quality, really intended for preview purposes only. LT is better, Standard even better, and HD best quality (of the 4:2:2 formats, that is). For editing, you should really use the highest quality, but for playback purposes Standard should be good enough in almost all cases. I doubt there are many people that would be able to spot a difference between Standard and HD in a playback blind test, given that the videos are encoded using the same encoder, and that the screens are identical. /Erik Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jfk Posted November 7, 2018 Author Report Share Posted November 7, 2018 Thank you Erik, really appreciate the insight. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wiesemann Posted November 7, 2018 Report Share Posted November 7, 2018 We had success with ProRes (standard) 25fps, 6480x1080. That was an earlier WO version 6. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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