Any good software solutions for ProRes on PC (without wasting tons of resources)?

[Parabola]

So I'm considering buying a FS700/Odyssey7Q combo and am trying to figure out what I can do with the compressed ProRes files that the 7Q will spit out. I see myself shooting in the 4K2HD mode quite a bit, so I would be dealing with ProRes a lot, but the workflow seems discouraging. Editing the ProRes files in PremierePro and being limited to using only 4 of the 72GB of RAM in my computer is just ridiculous (seriously, will Apple ever make a 64 bit version of Quicktime for PC??rogar-Angry(DBG).

So other than choosing to accept the fact that my system will run comparably to something built in 1997 while editing any ProRes footage, is my only other option to transcode to something that doesn't use this ***** ******* Quicktime codec? Well, or buy a different recorder...

Surely I can't be the only one on a PC surrounded by Apple media, am I? What are the rest of you PC guys doing? Anyone using FFMPEG to transcode into something usable? If so, do you find it adds a lot of time or too much hassle to your workflow to have to transcode pretty much everything you shoot before you can edit it?

Appreciate any suggestions.

 

[msorrels]

No video codec system loads the entire media into ram, Quicktime on a Mac doesn't use all your memory, it only uses a small amount for the current and most recent frames. And the 32-bit Windows version works the same way really. While having a 32-bit process acting as a server for the Quicktime data does hurt Windows a little bit, it's not because of the memory limits on 32-bit processes, it's more because of the extra overhead shuffling that data around entails. But even it isn't that bad. Certainly not bad compared with the pain of having to transcode every file. Even if Apple did produce a 64-bit version of Quicktime for Windows and every piece of software you use updated, I doubt you would even be able to tell it happened.

But you can try transcoding the footage into something like Cineform and see how that works. But I'd at least try it with the native Quicktime files and the Cineform versions first before assuming that Quicktime will be a problem. I suspect you'll find that things are about the same for either file format.