Apple ProRes

Writable

other

ProRes is a lossy video compression format developed by Apple Inc.

Identify it

Extensions	`.mov`
PRONOM	`fmt/797`
Wikidata	`Q47246311`
Library of Congress	`fdd000528`

Not sure your file is this? Identify it from its first bytes, in your browser.

Open it

ImageMagickOpen sourcereads and writes · ImageMagick License
Q2596578Open sourcereads · GNU General Public License, version 2.0
Media Composerreads · proprietary license
SpaceClaimreads

Convert it

To	With	Fidelity	Command and losses
Portable Network Graphics	ImageMagick	Lossless	`convert in.mov out.png` Pixels kept; some metadata, colour profiles or layers may be dropped.
Tagged Image File Format	ImageMagick	Lossless	`convert in.mov out.tif` Pixels kept; some metadata, colour profiles or layers may be dropped.
GIF 89a	ImageMagick	Lossy	`convert in.mov out.gif` Reduced to 256 colours.
JPEG File Interchange Format 1.02	ImageMagick	Lossy	`convert in.mov out.jpg` Lossy compression.
WebP	ImageMagick	Lossy	`convert in.mov out.webp` Lossy compression.

Sources

From Converters (FFmpeg, ImageMagick, Pandoc, LibreOffice), Just Solve the File Format Problem (File Formats Wiki), PRONOM, Wikidata. Updated 2026-10-24.

Improve this record JSON