https://wellys.org/wellysblog/tags/flip/ Recent content in Flip on WELLINGTON ROAD Pictures Hugo en-US Mon, 03 Aug 2009 17:59:28 +0000 https://wellys.org/wellysblog/posts/fcp-7-and-prores/ Mon, 03 Aug 2009 17:59:28 +0000 http://www.wellys.org/wellysblog/?p=146 <p>FCP 7 introduces a 3 new HD codecs for production work, ProRes 4444, ProRes 422 (LT) and ProRes 422 (Proxy). With these additions, this brings to five versions of HD codecs  available for production work. I did a simple comparison of Flip H.264 transcoding to all 5 versions, knowing full well that I wasn&rsquo;t starting with the best source material.</p> <p>The only version where I could see a difference was with ProRes 422 (Proxy). There were artifacts and a loss of detail. LT looked great, with no perceptible differences on up to 4444. Which means given the source, the best I could use is LT. That said, I did have striking differences in gamma between the new codecs looking identical to the source material and the &ldquo;older&rdquo; codecs, 422 and 422 (HQ) being much darker and losing details in the shadows.</p>