Hi All,
If I want to export using ProRes422 or ProRes4444 from Blender on a Mac, do I need FFmpeg or QTKit installed? When I select QuickTime in the Output panel, none of the ProRes codecs are visible, even though they’re available for other apps on my Mac.
If I do need FFmpeg or QTKit, is there an easy way to install or do I need to follow the dev guide to build Blender for OSX?
Thanks,
Ian
none of the ProRes codecs are visible, even though they’re available for other apps on my Mac.
Only codecs built into blender are available.
Render to a lossless format and convert to PreRes in something like Quicktime
Blender uses ffmpeg, and ffmpeg can prores. It’s just not exposed in Blender UI. I working on a patch to enable it. The version ffmpeg in Blender is 0.10 and has only the standard prores 422 - when blender uses ffmpeg 0.12 i plan to implement 422 - 444 and better control over it. (Not sure about 444 - in quicktime those are seen as 422? with ffmpeg 0.12)
I recommend to have a look at ffmpeg - it’s a command line tool - and very mighty.
No idea when my patch will be ready - it’s just a couple of lines changes (maybe 5 ;-), but since it’s my first “coding” in C i have to check it. If you want i can provide you a 2.67 build with ProRes enabled.
The nice thing about 444 is that it supports an alpha channel. The 422 does not.
I will see if i can enable 444 with ffmpeg 0.1 in Blender - i would like Blender to have ffmpeg 0.12 - since it has a better ProRes Encoder.