What is the best way to convert ProRes (.mov) to MP4?

Date October 10, 2016 Author Catherine Category Video Tips

If you are a amateur filmmaker, you must be familiar with FCP X/6/7. It will be cool to produce your personal film under the help of FCP. You might get many fans on YouTube when you share the FPC video on this video sharing site. One point is that FCP X/6/7 and some other NLE softwares output video in ProRes MOV format with large size which is not friendly to YouTube. Moreover, when you play these ProRes (.mov) files on PC, you probably get failure, as well. The best way to use Apple ProRes files is to compress large ProRres MOV files to MP4 in smaller size with lossless quality.

With video transcoder, it will be an easy task to convert ProRes (.mov) to MP4 for uploading to YouTube, FaceBook, Vimeo, Instagram and playing with WMP on PC. Pavtube iMedia Converter for Mac is such a video converter that can help you reduce ProRes MOV files and shift format to MP4 extension. As a top-ranked video decoder/encoder, it supports to input various video formats inlcuding MP4, MOV, ProRes, AVI, M2TS, VOB, VRO, ISO, XAVC, AVCHD, MXF, etc and export MP4, MKV, MOV, M3U8, H.265, 3GP, etc video in 4K/HD/SD resolution. It is also a video editor, which allows you to edit your ProRes files during converting it to MP4.

Main Features in Compressing ProRes(.mov) Files into MP4s

– Convert Apple ProRes 4444 XQ,  ProRes 4444, ProRes 422 HQ, ProRes 422, ProRes 422 LT and ProRes 422 Proxy to MP4 format.

– Compress 1080p ProRes files to 720P MP4, 540P MP4, 480P MP4, 360P MP4.

– Encode Apple ProRes files to H.265/HEVC MP4 and H.264/AVC MP4.

– Create 3D SBS MP4, 3D TB MP4 out of Apple ProRes files.

– Adjust video aspect ratios and crop video black area during converison.

– Trim interesting part footage from your Apple ProRes files.

Free Download Top Mac ProRes to MP4 Converter: 

  

Steps to Compress Large ProRes mov Video Files into MP4s

Step 1: Install the program on Mac and run it. Drag the Apple ProRes files to the software. Or you can also click “Add” button on the top of the main interface to import video to the program. It supports batch conversion and joining multiple video clips into one file. 

Step 2: Choose H.264 MP4 format. You can click Format bar and choose H.264 HD Video(*.mp4) from Common Video as the output file format. If you want to put your ProRes .mov videos on portable devices, you can also directly select a format from decent device preset like iPad. 

Step 3: Customize settings for MP4 video. Click the format image icon to reveal the drop-down format list. Select MOV as the output format, and then click the “Settings” button to manipulate video & audio parameters as per your needs:

CodeC: Click arrow to choose drop down options. or just let it as defaulted.
Resolution: There are many options. 240*160, 320*240,480*320,480*368,640*480, 1280*720 etc. 
Frame Rate: Set it to slow down or speed up your playing speed. Generally, value above 20 makes little difference.
Bit Rate: You can choose from 256 to 2000kbps as per your needs.

Note: If you want to trim a fragment to upload to YouTube, you can click "Edit" to find "Trim" icon. This icon allows you to decide where to start and where to end when converting the selected movie, so that unwanted scenes will be cut out after conversion.

Step 4: After all settings, click the “Convert” icon to start transcoding Prores to MP4 immediately. 
Once the conversion finished, get the output files by clicking the Open button.

Then, you can upload your converted Apple ProRes to YouTube or play your Apple ProRes files on PC without any hassle.

You can solve the following problems in this way:

* My requirement is to convert ProRes LT video files to mp4 files that will play on PC workstations.

* I am trying to output from FCPX some 1920×1080 ProRes 23.98 footage 48kHz audio for the web in which I would like to end up with an H.264 wrapped in an mp4 container outputted

* I have a 120MB .mov file that I want to compress to less than 25MB in .mp4 extension so I can email it using Gmail. 

* I tried Handbrake and it tried, but the pans became quite jerky. Is there a tool that does a better job of converting Apple ProRes format to H.264 on a PC? Or is there some setting in Handbrake that might fix the jerky pans? I tried a quality setting of 12, which still created a large file at 43 Mbps, but still jerky pans.

* A client has sent me some ProRes files. I need to be able to pass these through HandBrake 0.9.4 CLI for batch encoding to MP4. Usually they send me DVDs or DVD images and so this is not a problem, but now… 

The ProRes files have a much higher bitrate than DVD spec so it would be nice to preserve that, but I can’t think of a very good way to do that with an intermediary format. Currently trying test batches by using QuickTime to export the ProRes stuff to DV / DVCPRO and feeding that to HandBrake. Another option would be exporting to uncompressed AVI, but that will probably result in huge files which will a) take forever to process, and b) bottleneck the whole thing on the transfer speed to the external hard drive storing the video files.

I’m sure somebody out there is more clever than I am. What’s the optimal way you would make ProRes (422) into a format HandBrake can read? Any help greatly appreciated.

* I created a video at 1280×720 using Flash and exported it as .mov file and it turned out to be 430mb, so I converted it to .mpg, but it was still 31mb. So I converted it to .mp4 and got the size down to 6mb, but it was too pixelated… is there a way to compress the video under 10mb without pixelation?