Let’s hope it can become a system-wide feature, or at least added to Blackmagic’s Resolve and Avid’s Media Composer.

That being said, I love that Apple has finally opened their ProRes codecs up to the Adobe Creative Cloud.

Well, that day is now over and, in my opinion, leads me to believe that Apple is less concerned with keeping their professional clients than ever before. All the while, most would keep that older Mac just to export ProRes files while using the more powerful and updated Windows PC to do their daily tasks. A lot of customers, who had given Apple the benefit of the doubt and stuck around for a year or two longer than they probably should have waiting for a new Mac Pro - allegedly being released in 2019 - began to transition over to Windows-based platforms. Unless you purchase an iMac Pro or MacBook Pro, you have been stuck using a 2013 Mac Pro to export or encode your files to ProRes specifications. No more being tied to AMD for ProRes exports.Īpple seems to be leaving their creative clients in the dust. Have you wanted to use those two or three Nvidia GTX 1080ti graphics cards that you can’t stuff into a Mac Pro? Well, now you can. But, starting today, you can export native ProRes 4444 and ProRes 422 from your Adobe Creative Cloud Suite apps like Premiere Pro, After Effects, and Media Encoder. The only other way would be to have a Cinedeck in your hands and output your files in realtime through it. Previously, the only way to export ProRes from a PC was to use a knock-off reverse-engineered codec that would mimic the process - creating footage that would often fail QC checks at networks - or be in possession of a high-end app like Fusion, Nuke, Nucoda or Scratch.

I can’t overstate how big of a deal this is.

Listen up post pros! You can now natively export ProRes from a Windows 10-based PC for $20.99 with the latest release of Adobe’s Premiere, After Effects and Media Encoder.

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