Are ffmpeg prores files reliable enough to be used in production/broadcast environment? Recently I'm transcoding a lot of material that I wish to use in broadcast and production environment where they use all sort of macs and apple software.

I'm not very fan of apple computers and I already own various pc to carry out normal jobs.

What I wonder about is.. is ffmpeg or ffmbc or libav good in producing prores? I mean good enough (producing high compatible files) to make me not in the need of use an apple only for produce pro res files for my customers ?

What documented glitch, issues or problems people who use my ffmpeg prores on final cut or other apple softwares can experience ?
I've had no problems producing prores 422 HQ .mov files with ffmpeg on my Windows machine for Mac-encumbered clients, including delivery to TV Networks for broadcast. I have had some problems with prores 4444 but only when the files have alpha channels, however that bug seems to have been fixed recently.

I don't know if anyone has done any head to head tests with the results you get out of ffmpeg vs a native apple app or something like adobe media encoder. That would certainly be worth doing.