Prores Raw footage

BloodyPerfect wrote on 1/7/2025, 7:48 AM

I've received footage from Atomos Ninja V that shot in prores Raw. I did google before and saw that is supported as of pro 19, but when I tried to use, there is no video track. I've been doing some hunting to see what's up and I've found youtube videos using this footage without issue on 19, but it is not working for me. I enabled the quicktime plugin. I downloaded some new codec pack I found recommended somewhere, but when I drop the footage in, I get 4 audio channels and no video. I see that it wasn't originally supported, but then it was as of a specific build, but with the newest Vegas Pro 19, it is not working for me.

I'm willing to pay and upgrade if that's the issue for the newest version, but will that fix the issue? Should it be working for me?

If I try to open in VLC I receive this error, "VLC could not decode the format "aprn" (No description for this codec)"

Thoughts/suggestions?

Comments

RogerS wrote on 1/7/2025, 8:41 AM

ProRes Raw isn't supported in VEGAS at this time and was never fully implemented.

QuickTime is for older file formats and codec packs are unlikely to help. Hopefully there's other Windows software that can load it.

Marc-Goder wrote on 1/7/2025, 9:34 AM

Nur Premiere Pro unterstützt zur Zeit Pro Res RAW mit Windows.

Es gibt einen Pro Res RAW in DNG Konverter.

Aber die Hersteller wollen für jeden Kamera Typ, den man verwendet, eine extra Lizenz.

Andere Konverter habe ich bis her nicht gefunden.

BloodyPerfect wrote on 1/7/2025, 2:55 PM

Any work around solutions? I've found 'Raw Converter' so I am thinking might buy that and convert them. Or, I see it works with Premiere Pro, so potentially downloading their free 7 day trial and render into a different format? I need to use the footage, preferably with as little quality loss as possible. Suggestions/thoughts?

RogerS wrote on 1/7/2025, 5:22 PM

If you can do basic color correction on the raw and then export to ProRes, MagicYUV or another intermediate format there won't be quality loss.

Howard-Vigorita wrote on 1/7/2025, 6:06 PM

@BloodyPerfect What I do is to use vp19 build 458 which I think was the last Vegas release to contain its PRR-beta implementation. I then usually render it out of vp19 using Magix MainConcept hevc @ 240mbps for editing in a more recent vp. I don't believe I ever had to enable the Quicktime plugin.

RogerS wrote on 1/7/2025, 6:42 PM

Doesn't 458 require workarounds to even open as it is affected by the VEGAS startup bug?

Former user wrote on 1/7/2025, 7:08 PM

@BloodyPerfect What I do is to use vp19 build 458 which I think was the last Vegas release to contain its PRR-beta implementation.

@Howard-Vigorita Didn't Apple reject Raw implementation in Vegas due to quality issues, and as such wouldn't want to use it, have you done any quality tests ?

Howard-Vigorita wrote on 1/7/2025, 11:13 PM

@RogerS Yes, I forgot about that. Had to turn off internet access (wifi) to get vp19 b458 to load all the way. It does the call home to reauthorize if necessary as well as any registration on a new install before it hits the problem code so you can do that 1st while online. Once it got fully loaded the 2nd time around, I was able to turn wifi back on.

@Former user Not sure what happened between Apple and Vegas but they apparently gave up on it after b458. I just fired b458 up again and in fact did not have to install or enable qt. No real way to use prr as a reference since the tools cannot read it but, fwiw, I was able to compare transcodes with each other: