Apple has announce ProRes QuickTime Decoder

Written by IT News on 2:45 AM

Apple has released the first ProRes QuickTime decoder for Mac. According to the company, this tool will allow QuickTime to play Apple ProRes files. With the help of the codec, Final Cut users benefit from the "lossless, uncompressed HD video on SD throughput." Apple ProRes QuickTime Decoder allows both Mac and Windows users to play Apple ProRes files through QuickTime; it is the first version of the codec, which contains the Windows compatibility.

From Apple's Support section of the site ...
If Apple ProRes Decoder QuickTime 1.0 for Mac

Apple ProRes QuickTime decoder software allows both Mac and Windows users to play Apple ProRes files through QuickTime. Apple ProRes is a visually lossless format that provides uncompressed HD quality at SD data rates. It is an excellent choice to control and can easily transcoded to distribution format as H.264. With new aid to work with both Mac and Windows computers, Apple ProRes can also be used for review and approval of Final Cut Studio sequences.

QuickTime is a multimedia framework developed by Apple. It is capable of handling various formats of digital video, media clips, audio, text, animation, music and various types of interactive panoramic images. It provides essential support for the program as iTunes, QuickTime Player (which can also serve as a helper for the browser to play media files that might otherwise fail to open) and Safari, it is available for Mac OS, Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows.

As for Final Cut Studio, professional video and audio production suite for Mac OS X has been developed by Apple; it includes six applications, and several smaller applications used in video editing. There are three additional applications are included: a text animation software, some tools that are specific to film processing and a distributed processing tools.

Apple ProRes Decoder QuickTime 1.0 for Mac requires Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) or Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) and QuickTime 7.5 or later.