Can Avid Media Composer export ProRes on Windows PC

As far as we know, ProRes codec is exclusive to Apple systems with Final Cut Pro. If you work on Avid Media Composer on a PC setup, you may find that it's hard to export ProRes codec. Well, fortunately we've worked out the solution to enables you obtain ProRes codec from Avid on Windows. Learn details now.

Although Avid Media Composer can't export ProRes on Windows directly, there are some 3rd party companies like Brorsoft Video Converter can help you export Avid Media Composer to ProRes 422, 4444 in Windows PC. This video converter is especially designed for Windows users to export ProRes 422, ProRes 4444 videos. With it, you will be able to export and save your video in Apple ProRes- the widespread and a wordwide "must have" format on Window 10/8/7/NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista, to deal with production, vfx, film companys, tv, spots agencies and media distributors. Of course, with Brorsoft Video Converter you can also convert any movie source/video clips to common video formats like MOV, AVI, MKV, WMV, MPG, FLV, etc without quality loss.

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Steps to Export ProRes from Avid Media Composer

STEP 1. After editing your videos in Avid, export uncompressed preferably QuickTime from Avid Media Composer.

Choose the sequence you want to export. Click on File > Export..., and choose Send to QT Movie, which enables you to get Quicktime codec.

STEP 2. Launch the ProRes converter for Windows, and you can either click "Add" button to import your videos files, or directly drag and drop the files into this program

STEP 3. Choose PorRes as output format. This Windows ProRes encoder offers optimized ProRes formats including Apple ProRes 422(*.mov), Apple ProRes 422(HQ) (*.mov), Apple ProRes 422(LT) (*.mov), and Apple ProRes 422(Proxy) (*.mov). Choose one as you need.

Tip: If the default settings do not fit you requirement, you can click "Settings" icon to and enter "Profile Settings" panel to adjust video size, bit rate, frame rate, sample rate and audio channels.

STEP 4. After all necessary, hit "Convert" button to start encoding videos to ProRes with the best quality. Now you can use the ProRes files anywhere you want them.