fcpx and prores question

one system i use frequently is a v5 fcs system. being v5, we have no prores capability in rendering a project. i
had been planning on bringing all of our systems into line with each other by upgrading everything with the new
final cut release. then came all of this turmoil about lack of features and compatibility. this prompts one question
for me: if i upgrade the v5 system to fcpx, does prores render capability come with it? or, is that now obtained
in another way? is there any way other than an upgrade of final cut to obtain prores rendering capability? if i
upgrade to get prores with fcpx, will my v5 fcs be able to make use of it? i guess it prompted more than one
question.

thanks,
BabaG

After you download FCPX you run software update and you get to download the additional codecs. I have no idea if ProRes would become available with FCP5, almost certainly not for editing, but possibly for exporting.

All the best,

Tom

back in the day when i had both FCP5 and FCP6 on my system,
i got acces to the ProRes codecs in FCP5.
yes, i could create ProRes timelines!
i did quite a bit of Compositing in a FCP5 project using ProRes timelines

there was a gamma shift in the image between playing and not playing:
from memory, when not playing the image got a bit darker.
i wasn't doing any Colour Correction, so it wasn't a problem

i have no idea if the same thing will work with FCP5 an FCPX


nick

Interesting. Thanks for that Nick.

All the best,

Tom

If the codec is installed on the system you should be able to access it in older versions of FCP. However, be aware that there will be no RT support so you'll have to render everything.

Also, FCPX requires you to have ProKit 7.0 and at least OS X 10.6.7, which could cause problems with older versions of FCP.

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