DNxHD and ProRes Codec Components

[mark williams]

Will this work with Edius 5.51 http://www.miraizon.com/products/codecsoverview.html

[GrassValley_SL]

What is the idea behind wanting it?
EDIUS supports Avid DNX an Prores natively.

[GrassValley_SL]

Yes I was just going trough it.
If Prores is needed it would make sense.
It should be accessible via quicktime.

[Andreas_Gumm]

Not tested yet,
but it seems that this is the missed solution to create QuickTime ProRes files straight from the Edius timeline!
I assume that this has been developed with the help of ffmpeg, libav or ffmbc libraries.
Anyway, thanks for sharing this.

Andreas

[mark williams]

Not tested yet,
but it seems that this is the missed solution to create QuickTime ProRes files straight from the Edius timeline!
Andreas

This is the application I had in mind. Now to figure out if it will work with 5.51.

[Andreas_Gumm]

This adds ProRes encoding on PC, but I am not sure if this is a licensed version.
If QT component is based on licensed Apple code than its nice add-on to QT on Windows.
I would first drop an email to them asking if it's Aple approved/licensed version.

Even if it's not originally licensed from Apple it's very welcome & helpful.
Sadly I can't find a demo version.

Andreas

[Andreas_Gumm]

If this is based on ffmpeg than Apple won't be happy about it. And this company is selling it, so they will have Apple after them sooner or later.

Maybe, but it's the same with Cinemartins Cinec!
So I will buy a license as soon as possible...

Apple could react to this with the next QT-"security" update to ignore the component.

Andreas

[Jerry]

I just upated to QT 7.7.5 and Cinec 2.0 is still working.

[Andreas_Gumm]

Yes,
because CINEC is not a QuickTime component!
The QuickTime API is not used with CINEC.

Andreas

[PaulTV]

so, has anyone tried this out? I see there is no trial available :-(

Paul :-)

[Andreas_Gumm]

I have exported now a full HD 1920x1080 25p clip with embedded 5.1 audio.
It simply works straight from the timeline, but it is really slow!
The 2 minutes clip took 6 minutes to export.
The codec of the exported clip will be identified as 'Miraizon ProRes 422 (HQ)' in clip properties.

So at the end I'm really really happy with it. Hopefully they will fasten up the encoding speed.

Andreas

[Zorro]

Good news, Andreas!

[Andreas_Gumm]

Good news, Andreas!

Indeed!
Hopefully Apple himself reacts in that way that they extend their official ProRes support also for the Windows world.
For now, I'm really happy with this solution.

Andreas

[Andreas_Gumm]

The codec can receive & encode at 10 bit.

Andreas

[Zorro]

Looks like quite solid implementation, but you still have no guarantee that you can get 10bit out of Edius. GV passes (I think) r4fl format (Y'CbCr 32-bit floating point 4:4:4:4, superblack support) to QT component for 10bit support. Plugin supports only v210 or v216 on input for 10bit encoding. It may work or may not- needs testing.

The plugin also supports QuickTime ‘v410’ for 10 bit 4:4:4 video.