DCI 4K cinema dailies from a RED camera for an indie film. ProRes 4444 (profile 4) at 300 Mbps preserves the wide color gamut and alpha channel, PCM 24-bit audio for sound design, MOV as the Final Cut Pro / Resolve interchange format.
| Video Codec | ProRes |
| Bitrate | 300M |
| Resolution | 2160p |
| Audio | PCM |
| Container | MOV |
ffmpeg -i input.r3d -c:v prores_ks -profile:v 4 -b:v 300M -c:a pcm_s24le output.movProRes 4444 (profile 4) supports an alpha channel, making it essential for VFX compositing. ProRes 4444 XQ (profile 5) doubles the data rate for even higher quality but only Apple silicon and recent Intel Macs can decode it in real time.
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