Lightweigth Pro res media player on Windows?

Report · Feb 27, 2019

Hi

Now we finally have Pro Res, what do you use to playback Pro Res on Windows.

If we don't use quicktime, which was slow anyway...

VLC does not scrub easily.

I don't really want to waste resources having Premiere open.

I would like something to recommend to clients.

I am sure compositing packages or 3d packages come with or recommend a professioanl format player...

Any tips?

THEN is there one that will playback over decklink?

Tris

Report · Feb 27, 2019

smallest and simplest media player that I use for most of my clips is MPC (media player classic) and it works perfect with ProRes.

Report · Feb 27, 2019

Great

Does it scrub smoothly

This is the main thing I have not found in Mac PC switching.

Seer previews miost things but is sketchy.

I know Fusion used to have one.

Scratch Play seemed great until they decided to charge for it.

Prelude might work if you didn't need a bit of set up each time and pretend to be ingesting.

Otherwise it decklinks as well.

Seems the decklink ones are like £1000 but hopefully someone will find a way.

I'll just get into the habit of using Premiere and see if it slows things down much.

I am on a laptop with 4 processors and I need them for rendergarden

Report · Feb 27, 2019

Nope

maybe it doesn't work with none standard formats but it seems to hang on opening them crash playing portrait 1080x1920 off a Samsung 840 Pro SATA SSD nvidia1080

I would like to set something as default player, double click and it platy straight away!

Report · Feb 27, 2019

Got the Black Edition working but it doesn't scrub so might as well stick to VLC

Guess it is hard to get frame accurate scrubbing outside of Premiere on windows, yet quicktime was fine with it on a mac.

Any more tips would be appreciated.

I was using Media through a Transcoders aardvark payer but again a bit clunky to get things in and out, though highly recommend Wayne Norton's work.

Maybe there is a scope app that has playback as well.

Report · Feb 27, 2019

Also JKL would be a plus!

You used to be able to just drag a clip onto a FCP icon and it would play.

Premiere on windows seems to make me import footage first.

I know this is the AE forum, but is ther eanything that can open a file direct?

At home with a 4 x ioFX raid I can play everything in real time in AE but that doesn't work everywhere...

I don't think the microsecond latency is there yet in single nvme drives

Report · Feb 27, 2019

If you want to check FOR SURE that everything done in AE will work, import the files into Premiere Pro and check them.

Screw the players.

Report · Feb 28, 2019

There must be a scrubbable player though.

Clients don't have Premiere...

There is probably a way to optimise them so they scrub.

I have tried a trial of professional ones in the past.

Report · Feb 28, 2019

tristansummers wrote
Clients don't have Premiere...

Okay, isn't that why clients hire you in the first place... to make stuff that WORKS?

The last time I saw a viewer that remotely resembled a professional viewer was in Quicktime Pro... which, unless you have a legacy machine, is dead. Even then, QT Pro didn't display alpha channels properly.

The professional-grade viewers are in professional-grade software. Why? Because pros don't NEED viewers, they've got the software!

Report · Feb 28, 2019

HI

I am a pro and I need a lightweight player!

I need a way to click a file and scrub through it.

Which in modern cpu, disk and gpu device world should not be hard.

Scratch Play was it but it got bloated and paid for

Really Adobe should have one.

Really Windows should have one.

There is a lot of different professional player software for many different purposes and a full blown video editor is not the most efficient way of playing back a file.

Sometimes it is just plain QC software, with io device support or scopes or VU meters.

Sometimes it is VJ optimised, sync optimised. gpu optimised etc.

Quicktime was fine on a mac, but always dumb on a PC. Slow and misinterpreting.