Apple Pro Res 4444

@Rob37444445z5ve 

I have not been able to reproduce this.  

Movies exported from Motion on two of my Macs using ProRes 4444 work as expected on the Premiere Pro side;  however, with the deprecation of QuickTime as a system driver for time based media, QuickTime moves area now supported at the appliction level rather than system driver level.  So... something wonky could be happening.

@Fergus H to your attention ...

I just ran into this today as a client that edits in Premiere can't open a ProRes 4444 file I've sent them that was exported from Motion. 

@Douglas371127185nhm - where are you seeing "Apple Animation" as an option in Motion? I'm running Motion 5.7 for reference. 

I solved the problem by opening my ProRes 4444 file in compressor and exporting an OpenEXR Image Sequence, then importing that to After Effects and rendering out a "Lossless with Alpha" file. That works in Premiere.

What a pain. Did Apple break something in Motion exports of ProRes 4444, or did Adobe break something? Either way, ridiculous and needs to be fixed.

I just had the same problem but found that if I created an Apple Animation file instead that worked just fine and included the alpha as well. Wish Adobe would fix this.

Thanks Warren! I also tested your file and it does work, but for some reason mine doesn't. I did the same operation and same format in AE and it now works, but not in with particualr motion file.

I just imported the mov that Warren links, and it works fine on my PC.

Neil

@defaultxprws99n0njq 

Hello:

I just exported a ProRes 4444 movie from Motion and it imports into Premiere Pro as expected.

I'm running the following software:

• Apple Motion version 5.6.3
• Premiere Pro 23.2.0 (Build 69)
• macOS Big Sur version 11.7.3

However, I would expect the rendered movie to import into any currently available version of Premiere Pro (macOS or Windows).

The Motion project (.motn) and rendered ProRes 4444 file (.mov) may be downloaded from here for testing on your end:

• defaultxprws99n0njq - Import ProRes 4444 from Apple Motion
  

I have included a screen shots below for reference (including the Export Movie dialog box from Motion) below.

-Warren

Hmmm... nothing has changed about file format support for Apple ProRes.

It's been awhile since I've exported ProRes 4444 from Motion, but I'll give it try and report back.

Back before Apple deprecated QuickTime, we could simply change the .motn extension to .mov and the file imported into After Effects or Premiere Pro.  It's really unforunate that we lost that functionality.

Thanks for the details. Always helps.

Thnaks Neil. Adobe does take Pro Ress 4444 but not from Motion (I think)