This ffmpeg command: ffmpeg -i input.avi -c:v prores -profile:v 3 -c:a pcm_s16le output.mov There are a plethora of free GUIs for ffmpeg for those unfamiliar with the command line. ffmpeg is a command line tool, which means that it can be automated. If you don't use Adobe CC aps or want a free, open source tool, ffmpeg can encode video using ProRes, and runs cross-platform.

This could be called 'visually lossy'.As of December 2018, Adobe Creative Cloud aps, such as Premier, After Effects and Adobe Media Encoder give you the ability to encode in ProRes without any post-hoc conversion.

Depending on the data rates and the profiles, you will *see* compression artifacts not later than in the third generation, sometimes in the second. With interframe codecs, the image is always completely recompressed.

I don't worry about generations though if I stabilize and denoise my clips and re-import them before making the Resolve-roundtrip (don't have Studio and don't have the Neat plugin for Resolve). Surely after some generations compression artifacts will show, I don't know when. Now ProRes is not uncompressed and it's lossy, though 'visually lossless'. Therefore he recommended to use DV (an intraframe codec as well) only as acquisition codec and to encode to *uncompressed* immediately before any further changes were made (referring to changes to the pixels, not simple cuts). I think it was an own chapter with capital letters: He said in order to maintain quality you should never recompress. You probably read the book DV Rebel's Guide by Stu Maschwitz. Also, just look at the clip and see if it's what you wanted?

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