Why I Export EVERY VIDEO in ProRes

I started exporting all my videos in ProRes for my editing workflow in Adobe Premiere CC 2019. Here's how to export in ProRes and why I do it. Now that Windows supports ProRes, why not try?

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[AustinNewman]

Would love to hear your results with this new workflow! What results did you get from this trick?

[AeBlues]

that's a solid workflow. have you tried using Smart rendering? in the sequence settings, if you set your preview files to be prores422, render in to out as you work or when you are done, make sure all is green bar, then when you export simply check "use previews" and your export will be super fast because it's using the cached preview. no extra layers, no need to update your prores file again and again and what not. it will also make your editing more efficient and easier as you work. one last bonus - if you render a prores out of the preview prores (the settings match 100%) and the settings are the same - it will take 2 seconds to render.

[jdajayi]

This video has saved my laptop's life cuz I was definitely going to throw it against the wall one day working with premiere pro

[SpareTimeIsMine]

I used this trick for a HUGE animation I did in after effects, then brought it back into Premiere after exporting in AE with ProRes to do motion on it. Using ProRes to get it from one stage to another is super valid.

[bkkdavidg]

I usually export to H264 for YouTube, because the ProRes file was about 10x larger. ProRes 422 definitely has its advantages though.

[clipdump]

This is really interesting. I'm at that stage where new info is coming at me so much at high volume and velocity, so thanks for taking the time to make it all clear. It's a major help.

[jonathanmini]

Big thank you! After 15 export attempts getting errors going straight to h264, this is speeding my life up! Thanks

[ADRIAN]

Same here bro and I’m glad that you made a video about it. Speaking of video..THE QUALITY YOUR VIDEO HERE IS WORLD CLASS!!!

[cineoitoum]

Man! That's a great tip. I am a editor for years. I did this one time, but never took this as a workflow method. This is really a better and quicker way.

[alicegoldenvalley]

Thanks for saying that uncompressed is the best quality, a lot of people don’t say that in these kinds of videos.

[LaurenceYatesAU]

Something I noticed when I was prerendering my timeline in a similar way was that the underlying tracks were still considered during the final render. I have a shortcut set to disable selected clips because even turning off the track visibility didn’t remove them from the render process – but this was several PrPro versions ago.

[otakulensphotography]

I missed this six months ago brother! Thanks so much it actually saved me a lot of time rendering. I wanted to try this on a final project and it was great

[andreika]

wonder if ppl realize that prores is a mere set of compression options and a container. abs the same IQ + decoding speed can be done in h264, h265, ... + mp4 (or mov etc). if you create custom h264 profile (actually, weird thing, accordingly to nvidia published tests, h265 seems to be encoded even faster than h264 on the latest nvidias), i frames only, 100-200 Mbps bitrate, main profile, 444 color (bevare, nvidia doesnt offload 422 h264, only 420 or 444), closed gop at your timeline fps, it will be rendered by your gpu, on a decent gtx it'll be decoded way faster than prores and you can encode to this mezzanine format on gpu as well at ~10 times than prores

[techtiptricks]

Prores is now available by default with CC 2020 "ON WINDOWS"

[agotime]

Wow buddy I loved that. Your specialty i have seen is minimalistic and easy to understand. Great work. Keep on making these 👍

[hermannpernell]

iDealshare VideoGo also helps to convert video to Apple ProRes or convert Apple ProRes to mp4, mpg, avi, mov etc

[KorokuGaming]

The layering the exported PRORES HQ file on the top of the timeline for the fine cut is a neat trick. I like it, very clever.

I'm a dirty youtube gaming editor that works primarily with h264/h265 files (sometimes with proxies if the timeline feels laggy) but I think that this method might actually help me to get a higher quality end result without increasing overall encoding time much and keeping the project neat. Thanks.

[Exclaim-Studios]

This is such an awesome tip, I straight up liked & subscribed from it! I don’t know how I didn’t think of this earlier, but I’m really glad I found your video. Thanks! Keep up the great work. 👌🏼

[zgravity]

Oh my gosh! What an idea! This will save a ton of time!

[DiegottlosenCharmeure]

prores export here on my pc for 4K50fps stuff = 5-7.5 fps renderingspeed
h265 all-i nvenc export for 4K50fps stuff = 45-60 fps renderingspeed

so if i want to export in real good quality (even for big screen cinema) you can use prores hq (or even qx 444) without a second thought at all. if you have hardware encoding at your hand and you do youtube stuff, go for h264/h265.