Anybody using Apple Compressor with Pr?

[Jim Curtis]

Seems like buying Compressor for $50 and getting access to the ProRes 444 codec makes a lot more sense than transcoding my footage using Adobe Media Encoder and wasting 25% of my drive space using ProRes 4444, since my footage doesn't have an alpha channel, and those files are HUGE!

Is anybody doing this, and have any caveats, upsides, downsides, or success stories they can share?

Mac only, obviously.

[excited_Genie16B8]

Switch to DNx in the MXF wrapper.

[Jim Curtis]

Good idea.

I don't see an export option for DNxHR in MXF OP1a Format in Premiere (although I do see lots of other codecs).

I do see a DNxHR codec using Quicktime Format.

Do you happen to have a link or tip for doing this in Pr, AME, or Ae?

Is there a good reason to use MXF instead of QT?

[Meg The Dog]

In your first post you mentioned ProRes 444. I'm not sure I've ever heard of that flavor of ProRes. It's not listed in the Apple List of ProRes codecs:

About Apple ProRes - Apple Support

and does not appear as an option in Compressor running on my machine:

MtD

[excited_Genie16B8]

You're using version 12.1.2?

MXF is a wrapper, plain and simple.  QuickTime is a Multimedia Framework.  It needs to be installed, needs updating, has bugs.  It's not good.  MXF just...works.