Hi Kurt, ProRes 422 can be configured easily. If you need a different picture size, you can add a resize filter to the ffmpeg string.
Have a look at page 31, everything should be there!
Thanks for pointing that out! So to recap for any other half-brained people like me out there using
FCP 7 on
Mac OS X 10.6.8 (and perhaps myself in the future)
To set up
Prores 422 HQ encoding with audio settings adjusted from page 31 here:
1) Make sure MLRawViewer is working well as it is.
2) Make hidden files visible in finder by either using the terminal or an application. Lazy as I am, I used the latter.
3) Go to your user directory. Then go to the hidden directory '.mlrawviewer' in there are the configuration files. You can made an alias of this directory and made it visible by removing the dot in front. Now you turn off showing hidden files and still have easy acces to the configuration files.
4) Open ffmpegWithAudioConfig. Make a copy of the standard Prores 4444 code for future reference (or just delete the file if you mess up and it will be regenerated). Insert this code for Prores 422 HQ encoding WITH audio that gets accepted by FCP7 (at least in my current testing)
-f mov -vf vflip -vcodec prores_ks -profile:v 3 -pix_fmt yuv422p10le -acodec pcm_s16le %s.MOV5) Save the configuration file.
6) Render out your files as would otherwise.
In my test files this generated perfectly accepted FCP 7. The code on page 31 made me render audio (known ffmpeg bug).