Newbie at using FFMPEG - DVD Rips to ProRes with AAC Audio?

[Brainiac]

Hi all,
My head is about to explode. I've just started using the latest build of FFMPEG (with AnotherGUI frontend) and so far I thinks it's great!

What I'd like to do is convert home movie dvd rips and convert them to ProRes (for a friend who's on a mac and I am on a PC, he wants to edit the rips). I've worked out how to set resolution and aspect ratio, but the audio conversion part is cloudy. I do not have the files yet, but audio would be either ac3, wav or mp2.

So what command line options should I be looking at? There's so much stuff on Google that I am getting very confused as to what command line options I should be using.

Thanks in advance.

[smrpix]

Best to use ProRes in a mov container with PCM (wav) audio.

-c:v prores -profile:v 0 -acodec pcm_s16le (Proxy)
-c:v prores -profile:v 1 -acodec pcm_s16le (LT)
-c:v prores -profile:v 2 -acodec pcm_s16le (422)
-c:v prores -profile:v 3 -acodec pcm_s16le (422 HQ)

https://wideopenbokeh.com/AthenasFall/?p=111

[Brainiac]

Best to use ProRes in a mov container with PCM (wav) audio.

-c:v prores -profile:v 0 -acodec pcm_s16le (Proxy)
-c:v prores -profile:v 1 -acodec pcm_s16le (LT)
-c:v prores -profile:v 2 -acodec pcm_s16le (422)
-c:v prores -profile:v 3 -acodec pcm_s16le (422 HQ)

https://wideopenbokeh.com/AthenasFall/?p=111

So by doing so will my friend have any issues with Final Cut Pro 7 or Final Cut Pro X importing the files?

[smrpix]

So by doing so will my friend have any issues with Final Cut Pro 7 or Final Cut Pro X importing the files?

Send your friend a short test file to try.

I don't keep track of Apple's current philosophy on non-Apple generated ProRes. It's possible they will need Quicktime 7, not just QTX.

[Brainiac]

Thanks, smrpix.