ProRes "Baked" Workflow
Please Provide:
1) ProRes422HQ or ProRes4444 file (based on the camera’s chroma subsampling)
2) An H.264 offline reference file
3) An EDL of the timeline
Exporting the video file from Premiere:
- Ensure all media is linked to camera original / highest quality (no proxies)
- Make a copy of your locked creative timeline, call it “projectname_4color”
- Remove all temp color & LUTs (see example below)
- Remove all superimposed text/titles (you will lay these back over the eventual colored file.)
- Remove any dips to black (to prevent quantization/banding, these will be recreated after color.)
Important boxes to tick in the “video” export tab for Premiere users:
- Use Maximum Depth
- Use Maximum Render Quality
- Export an EDL of the timeline (will be used to re-slice the timeline)
Removing temp color & LUT's in Premiere
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premiere export settings
![](https://cdn.myportfolio.com/32c3eed9-b5bc-485d-b5f1-31771219234d/c55ba08e-d340-4169-b3e5-d8b6443df461_rw_1920.png?h=0aa4c68a7f4a734b6629981460f5175b)