Emmy, one of the most famous awards in the television industry, is also awarded in technical categories. This year, Apple was also among the companies awarded the Emmy Engineering Award.

Apple was awarded for the ProRes video codec, commonly used in the television and film industry, most often at the post-production stage. The technology was first introduced in 2007 with the launch of Final Cut Studio 2. During the award ceremony (which was completely online due to the COVID-19 pandemic), Peter Chou, Mitchell Oslick, Ken Lin and Greg Wallace from the team responsible for video applications at Apple spoke about ProRes. Other companies awarded this year's Emmy for technical achievements included Evercast, HP, Sohonet, Teradici, CODEX, Epic Games, RE:Vision Effects and Sound Radix. The whole transmission of the technical Emmy awards can be viewed below (the excerpt about Apple and ProRes starts from 13 minutes).