XMedia Recode MOV codec question

[low-fat-al]

I am new at using XMedia Recode. I am converting Uncompressed AVI (Lagarith) to Uncompressed MOV to edit video on a MAC. I see I can convert to ProRes using XMedia Recode, which is fine, but.... I was thinking of using PNG instead because it is lossless unlike ProRes which is lossy. I didn't see that in the list of Codecs of choice. Animation was the only one. Animation tends to be huge in comparison to PNG. Is there a way to add in PNG in the list by editing the "mov.ini" file in the format directory?

Any experts out there with insight would be greatly appreciated!

[johns0]

Thread moved to the mac forum where you can get more help.

[Ai Haibara]

...except XMedia Recode is a Windows program.

[low-fat-al]

Which is why I didn't post it here... sigh.....

[johns0]

Thread moved to video conversion,please edit your original post since its not a mac you are using.

[aedipuss]

iirc xmediarecode is based on ffmpeg which just recently implemented the mov encoding and i don't believe png was included at all. since you are already in the yuv color space prores422hq is probably your best bet if the mac can't handle lagarith or huffyuv.

[low-fat-al]

Yeah. I think I will stick to ProRes when I need to convert an AVI to MOV for editing on a MAC.
Thank you all for you help.