The sizes for Prores are the same as DNxHD for the same video/sound quality. If they send you the full version of their 1 hour long DNxHD file between 12 and 17 GBs in size (depending on the bit rate they choose). The quality of DNxHD I mentioned is their equivalent of a proxy quality.
An example 1 hour of 1080p DNxHD 36 at 29.97 FPS with audio at 48Khz / 24 bit is 4.46 GB. You will quickly see how impractical it is for many of us to have clients sending ProRes or DNxHD files to you over the internet. If you want to see how big a video file is in ProRes or DNxHD download a copy, it’s free, of AJA’s DataCalc for iPhone. Sending 20 minute reels of a movie scene in Prores or even DNxHD as a placement video to a sound editor or designer or composer over the internet is impractical to most. They also need to get to work on H.265 (if they haven’t already) which will be rolling out in video authoring apps and YouTube VERY soon, like this year. Steinberg, as they have acknowledged, does still need to improve H.264 performance. Will be adding the codec to my Nuendo install.
Thanks for posting up and mentioning the video playback is smooth and installation went well. I just upgraded flawlessly to 8.0.15 and installed the DNxHD license… it looks stunning now! The video is smooth as butter, and editing goes without any hickups or errors.
