ASSIMLATE open beta of SCRATCH® v8 with officially Apple licensed ProRes on Windows.

[Gary T]

http://www.assimilateinc.com/products/scratch

[h=2]ProRes on Windows [/h] [h=2]Apple-licensed ProRes software encoding on Windows[/h] Finally, what everyone has been waiting for. Windows users get:
• True ProRes 442, HQ, LT, Proxy and 4444 encoding
• The correct bit depth - 10 or 12 bits per component
• Optimized for FCP
• Officially licensed from Apple.
No more slow, buggy, reverse-engineered solutions with missing features. Windows users now have full ProRes encoding parity with Mac users.






An interesting development!

 

[KahL]

Now that is REALLY good news!!!!

 

[Mark Williams]

The price is ridiculous.

 

[WayneMann]

I would love to have some of the crack that they are smoking. I must be missing something, but having Prores export capability on my PC with Adobe Suites ain't that important.


Wayne Mann
www.HeliCamHDmedia.com

 

[maarek]

I would love to have some of the crack that they are smoking. I must be missing something, but having Prores export capability on my PC with Adobe Suites ain't that important.

Not if you're just working for yourself but other clients and production houses tend to require prores for many things. Also it works great as a 4k codec which DNxHD doesn't support (atleast in AE)

 

[Vultch]

It does look a tad expensive, $5000 for a single yrs licence. Anybody using it care to explain its advantages.

 

[Gillvane]

It does look a tad expensive, $5000 for a single yrs licence. Anybody using it care to explain its advantages.

Am I missing something? Why wouldn't you just buy a Mac for that price and use that if you need prores?

 

[Vultch]

Am I missing something? Why wouldn't you just buy a Mac for that price and use that if you need prores?

My mistake... I should have said $5000 for a yrs licence for the Scratch editing/compositing software.

 

[David W. Jones]

Yes having a Mac Mini for $600 to spit out ProRes would be a cheap as dirt solution compared to this.

 

[WayneMann]

A new Mac Pro is looking better and better.

Wayne Mann
www.HeliCamHDmedia.com

 

[snowblindfilm]

So for one year of subscription $5000! They even managed to beat Adobe in ripping people off! Good job!

 

[Matt Gottshalk]

Scratch is used for dailes/grading/and conform for on-set as well as post for F65/F55/Red shoots.

it is a high-end tool probably out of reach for the workflow of most dvxusers.

 

[Gary T]

Yeah, if you're busy making hundreds of dollars an hour working, five thousand year for a license isn't bad. Having said that I hope this is the start of a trend. It would be awesome if DaVinci Resolve 11 included ProRes export on the PC. Of course at this point that's just wishful thinking.

Gary

 

[zijital]

it is a high-end tool probably out of reach for the workflow of most dvxusers.

Then this thread is less at fault from Scratch & more at fault for the OP for making it appear as just some Windows software that can do ProRes.

But from the interest on this thread it really seems like there is a lot of interest in "official" ProRes on a Windows box. Probably many people might pay $100 or $500 for just a plugin for Adobe / Avid to encode to ProRes.

 

[Robert Ruffo]

You can pay a lot less than $400 and get SGO Mamba - it does Windows Prores, plus it does a thousand other very, very cool things.

 

[Vultch]

Out of curiosity, because I really don't know Scratch or Mamba, what can these pieces of software do. Are they cousins of Autodesk Smoke? or is it challenging Nuke.

i.e. if I had say for example Premiere or FCPX plus DaVinci, what can Scratch do that this set up could not.

EDIT, I see Mamba is a piece of compositing software nodal based like Shake...

 

[maarek]

Out of curiosity, because I really don't know Scratch or Mamba, what can these pieces of software do. Are they cousins of Autodesk Smoke? or is it challenging Nuke.

Scratch is a high-end color grading solution.

 

[kurth]

Scratch is used for dailes/grading/and conform for on-set as well as post for F65/F55/Red shoots.

it is a high-end tool probably out of reach for the workflow of most dvxusers.

Yes, this site is called "dvxuser" for a reason. People, and I don't imagine there's many individuals, a few inhouse feature businesses maybe, that would be interested in paying 5k a year for renting software. What I find distasteful is this new business model. Soon they'll not sell cameras and computers but rent them by the day.

 

[David W. Jones]

Yes, this site is called "dvxuser" for a reason. People, and I don't imagine there's many individuals, a few inhouse feature businesses maybe, that would be interested in paying 5k a year for renting software. What I find distasteful is this new business model. Soon they'll not sell cameras and computers but rent them by the day.

Well, years back I used Silicon Graphics workstations, and the software was leased. A fully decked out Mac Quadra 950 was so expensive that there were rental boutiques for doing desktop print work. And as a matter of fact, unless you had the pocket for a $100,000 camera rig back then, you rented the camera. This model has been around for a while.

 

[NC17z]

Hi Everyone,... I've run into this problem numerous amount of times for broadcast... Some will only accept ProRes 1080i Files... Used to have steal my wife's MacBook Pro in order to pull it off...

NOT ANYMORE!

http://www.cinemartin.com/cinec/ $99.00 and $149.00 (I've used the Trial)... This one doesn't use all of your available CPU's if you are hyper threading...