Introduction

How to encode your content to ProRes

Details

The encoder behave differently based on 3 options:

• -qscale < value > or -cqp < value >

Specify a fixed quantizer that will be used for every frame. This is a VBR encoding method.

• -profile < name > :
• proxy
• lt
• std
• hq

If bitrate is not specified, the bitrate will be automatically chosen based on video resolution and will be similar to the apple encoder for the same profile.

• -b < bitrate >

Specify an approximately constant bit rate to use during encoding.

444 encoding: add -pix_fmt yuv444p10 to your commandline options.