Re: Aquisition Straw Poll

The visually lossless, 10-bit compressed nature of ProRes makes it an absolute no-brainer, especially if you plan on upgrading to HD anytime soon. You may like to consider that for SD work, you would see no advantage to ProRes HQ over the standard ProRes format. Another new key advantage (for 7.0 users) is the life-changing ability to render alpha-containing graphics from AE or Motion and use them unrendered in a timeline. No more animation codec renders ever. I love this more than cake.

I would caution that some shared storage solutions, like Editshare, do not support ProRes yet, and this support has caused a couple of projects I've been aware of recently being finished in DVCProHD (old tech IMHO).

As for space, an hour of Uncompressed 8-bit SD in PAL land is 70Gb. An hour of ProRes is 18Gb (give or take). It will also playback on smaller, cheaper storage options.

In an all FCP enviroment, I would not consider anything else.

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