Daniel, thanks so much for releasing new version of Voukoder Pro and keeping Prores AW in it.
I did codecs test for personal workflows. I tested different encoder performance on a detailed 30 seconds 29.97 fps footage 4:2:2 10 bit shot on Sony A7 s III converted to uncompressed 4:2:2 10 bit file. There was a human running into the ocean with lots of movements and splashes to make footage more challenging to encode. I tested the PSNR, bitrate, editability.
I found that Prores KS underperforms the original Apple codec in PSNR while keeping the samish bitrate as original one.
Prores AW is on pair (or even better) with original Apple encoder and has higher bitrate.
Also Prores AW is much faster then Prores KW on my Legion 5 Pro i9 13900HX, 64GB RAM, RTX 4070.
Long story short. I think it is worth adding different profiles for Prores AW like you did for Prores KS. They may be added with "-profile" command. It has rate-control for 4 profiles: 0 - apco, 1 - apcs, 2 - apcn, 3 - apch.
I will share my encoder tests in attached image. And there's also a comparison between Prores AW LT and Prores KS LT PSNRs for a batch of 10 different files (4:2:2 10 bit). You can see KS version underperformance in quality:
Prores AW LT:
Average batch PSNR: 50.2116. MIN frame PSNR in batch: 43.97
Average files PSNRs: 45.68 47.01 52.83 54.13 48.46 44.62 46.75 55.94 49.46 53.84
Prores KS LT
Average batch PSNR: 47.9347. MIN frame PSNR in batch: 38.6
Average files PSNRs: 41.75 44.70 50.54 53.20 45.73 39.64 42.71 56.19 47.54 53.04
