[Herb Sevush] "Is this only true for conversions to ProRes, or even when shooting to ProRes?"
well since you cannot shoot to prores.....
actually think of it this way,
capturing from a true 10bit source - "LIVE" output from a camera, HDcamSR, high end frame sequences - go with PRHQ
HDV and DVCPROHD - you will not see any difference in the encode to plain ProRes until you get to the 5 or 6th generation of re-compression.
Herb it is all about using the bits in the best manner- if you have lots of CPU power (Octo w/ oodles of RAM) you are not going to see much, if any playback issues. However if you are on an older machine- the RT benefits from using standard vs PRHQ are amazing.
Chances are you are not shooting with native 10bit camera, standard ProRes is smaller in size and easier on the CPU to Process than the HQ version. Less hassles for you and your computer.
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