In surprise move, you can now export Apple ProRes from Premiere Pro on a PC
posted Tuesday, December 11, 2018 at 2:09 PM EDT
This is one of those "never saw that coming" moments that are few and far between in the photo/video industry. In a shocking move, Adobe now offers support for exporting Apple ProRes on the Windows platform with today’s updates to the Adobe Creative Cloud video apps. The apps that can now do this export regardless of PC or Mac operating system are Premiere Pro CC, After Effects CC, and Adobe Media Encoder CC. The updates are available right now via the Creative Cloud desktop application.
From Adobe:
"Apple ProRes is a codec technology developed by Apple for high-quality, high-performance editing. It is one of the most popular codecs in professional post-production and is widely used for acquisition, production, delivery, and archive. Adobe has worked with Apple to provide ProRes export to post-production professionals using Premiere Pro and After Effects. Support for ProRes on macOS and Windows helps streamline video production and simplifies final output, including server-based remote rendering with Adobe Media Encoder."
With the latest Adobe updates, ProRes 4444 and ProRes 422 export is available within Premiere Pro, After Effects, and Media Encoder on macOS and Windows 10. You can feel free to wager on what this means for Mac/PC relations and perhaps the future of Final Cut, but we'll leave it at this: The ability to export to one of the industry standards of video regardless of your operating system is an absolutely excellent move, and we're happy to see it.