What now seams like decades ago, Apple introduced ProRes 422. This professional codec provided a 10Bit compressed workflow that allowed for high edit editing, without taking up massive amounts of storage space. About a year later Apple introduced the rest of the ProRes family, ProRes 4444, ProRes 422 (HQ), ProRes 422 (LT) and ProRes 422 (Proxy). These codecs allowed for more flexibility by either increasing quality or saving data while maintaining quality. One of the major benefits to ProRes is that is was also supported by many third parties as well.
With the introduction of Final Cut Pro X, the ability to work in these codecs was limited. While FCPX supported files using other flavors of ProRes, you could not set a project to utilize them. With the recent update to Final Cut Pro 10.06.6, the option to used them in the project has been added. See image below:
This table shows all of the ProRes codecs and their data rates based on frame size:
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Frame dimensions
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Frame rate
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Apple ProRes 4444 data rate
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Apple ProRes 422 (HQ) data rate
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Apple ProRes 422 data rate
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Apple ProRes 422 (LT) data rate
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Apple ProRes 422 (Proxy) data rate
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720 x 486
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23.98 fps
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75 Mbps
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50 Mbps
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34 Mbps
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23 Mbps
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10 Mbps
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720 x 486
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25 fps
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79 Mbps
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52 Mbps
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35 Mbps
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24 Mbps
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10 Mbps
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720 x 486
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29.97 fps
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94 Mbps
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63 Mbps
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42 Mbps
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29 Mbps
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12 Mbps
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720 x 576
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23.98 fps
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88 Mbps
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59 Mbps
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39 Mbps
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27 Mbps
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12 Mbps
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720 x 576
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25 fps
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92 Mbps
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61 Mbps
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41 Mbps
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28 Mbps
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12 Mbps
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720 x 576
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29.97 fps
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110 Mbps
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73 Mbps
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49 Mbps
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34 Mbps
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15 Mbps
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960 x 720
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23.98 fps
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113 Mbps
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75 Mbps
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50 Mbps
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35 Mbps
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15 Mbps
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960 x 720
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25 fps
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118 Mbps
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79 Mbps
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52 Mbps
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36 Mbps
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16 Mbps
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960 x 720
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29.97 fps
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141 Mbps
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94 Mbps
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63 Mbps
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44 Mbps
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19 Mbps
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1280 x 720
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23.98 fps
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132 Mbps
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88 Mbps
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59 Mbps
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41 Mbps
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18 Mbps
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1280 x 720
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25 fps
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138 Mbps
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92 Mbps
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61 Mbps
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42 Mbps
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19 Mbps
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1280 x 720
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29.97 fps
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165 Mbps
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110 Mbps
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73 Mbps
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51 Mbps
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23 Mbps
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1440 x 1080
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23.98 fps
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226 Mbps
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151 Mbps
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101 Mbps
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70 Mbps
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31 Mbps
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1440 x 1080
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25 fps
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236 Mbps
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157 Mbps
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105 Mbps
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73 Mbps
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32 Mbps
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1440 x 1080
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29.97 fps
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283 Mbps
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189 Mbps
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126 Mbps
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87 Mbps
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38 Mbps
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1920 x 1080
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23.98 fps
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264 Mbps
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176 Mbps
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117 Mbps
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82 Mbps
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36 Mbps
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1920 x 1080
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25 fps
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275 Mbps
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184 Mbps
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122 Mbps
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85 Mbps
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38 Mbps
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1920 x 1080
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29.97 fps
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330 Mbps
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220 Mbps
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147 Mbps
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102 Mbps
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45 Mbps
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2048 x 1152
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23.98 fps
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302 Mbps
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201 Mbps
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134 Mbps
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93 Mbps
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41 Mbps
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2048 x 1152
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25 fps
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315 Mbps
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210 Mbps
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140 Mbps
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97 Mbps
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43 Mbps
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2048 x 1152
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29.97 fps
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377 Mbps
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251 Mbps
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168 Mbps
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116 Mbps
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52 Mbps
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