ProRes is a compressed and encoded format. In order to become ProRes, it needs to be uncompressed and decoded at some point. uncompressed and unencoded is easie

ProRes is a compressed and encoded format. In order to become ProRes, it needs to be uncompressed and decoded at some point. uncompressed and unencoded is easier to work with on the rendering side, but much heavier on the data side. Ask your AI about the DPX file format.