Prores4444

Hello

As a Mac user, I would like to see the ProRes4444 export option—an everyday mastering quality codec everyone supports.
Keeping the bit depth and colour fidelity is important. XQ is often too heavy, resource-intensive and takes much more space. Please give us ProRes4444 fit with full bit depth and alpha.

I have seen tweaks for the video-encoders.json file, but all instructions are for Windows. Plus, I am not comfortable tweaking Java scripts without any deeper knowledge. Is TVAI using some custom ffmpeg compilation?

The 4. “4” just means, that there is also an alpha-channel. I Don’t know if TVAI support alpha-channels. And the PR444 just make sense if your source have that format too. Just to blow up from a lower source doesn’t make sense.

Yes, ProRes4444 can support alpha. If a file has alpha information, it is really important to retain this.
ProRes4444 does make sense since I am using the format for 90% of cases. Keeping the bit-depth and colour fidelity is a must.

Regards

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Is this similar to how some videos hosted on DeoVR like:
AXG-Vision, for example have alpha channels used or something similar that helps DeoVR remove the background while still having a separate streaming file with the actual background still intact?
[AXG-Vision mostly does just Pop music groups as 2D but with background removal as the ‘Passthrough’ feature this can be tested out without a VR HMD though.]