Apple provides more details on their ProRes 422 video format

Apple Inc. has posted on their website a white paper on its new Apple ProRes 422 video format. The company claims that this format has been designed to reproduce as much of an artist’s original vision on the screen as possible.

Apple adds on this format: “With ProRes 422 inside Final Cut Studio 2, there is now a better choice for ensuring that all creative work maintains its original, pristine color and detail — from capture all the way to final viewing.”

The document released by the company comes loaded with information related to history of video editing on the Mac platform. It also showcases the new features introduced by this new format.

The company said that this new format features uncompressed HD quality at data and storage rates lower than uncompressed SD. It also features performance comparable to or better than the existing HD codecs in Final Cut Pro.

Apple further said: “For years now, Final Cut Pro editors have relied on HD formats such as DVCPRO-HD and HDV for native, real-time multistream editing. The efficiency and image quality of these workflows are excellent for content that originates with and can be finished natively in these formats. But such formats were designed under significant camcorder engineering constraints, so they limit the full quality that can be carried in an HD signal.”