Some Thoughts on ProRes RAW and ProRes RAW HQ
Just before NAB 2018, Apple announced ProRes RAW and ProRes RAW HQ, a new video codec aimed at professionals. When ProRes was originally launched it supported the YCbCr color space with 4:2:2 and 4:4:4:4 chrominance subsampling. ProRes is popular as an intermediate codec for transcoding video from the camera for editing or as a mezzanine codec for storing high quality edited video before transcoding to a delivery format. The 4:2:2 version is preferable for general purpose compression at high quality and 4:4:4:4 for applications such as chromakey or when on screen text and graphics will be added.
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