I have some stunning footage that was imported into a project using iMovie which resulted in use of apple intermediate codec which I believe is a lossy format. If I create a new sequence and change the project and sequence codec to apple pro res 422, can the resulting exported footage be improved in any way?????? Not a technical person so excuse if this is a ridiculous question.
Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8), Dual 2.8GHz Quad Core Intel Xeon
Sorry, no. Once you converted to AIC, that information was lost. Just changing it to ProRes doesn't make that quality loss re-appear. If you converted the original source to ProRes, yes, you would gain quality back. But converting already converted footage...no. All you will do then is add a layer of compression.
Sorry, no. Once you converted to AIC, that information was lost. Just changing it to ProRes doesn't make that quality loss re-appear. If you converted the original source to ProRes, yes, you would gain quality back. But converting already converted footage...no. All you will do then is add a layer of compression.
Go ahead and use your AIC footage as any quality loss is extremely minimal and you are unlikely to notice any difference.
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