Mailing List AE-List@media-motion.tv ? Message #41460
From: <TSassoon@aol.com>
Subject: Re: [AE] best codec for cross platform sharing
Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2011 17:57:18 -0500 (EST)
To: <AE-List@media-motion.tv>

In a message dated 12/27/11 1:44:53 PM, steveo@practicali.com writes:

if sony has indeed developed a NEW SR codec that isn't h264 that would be interesting


Let me get this straight. Are you saying Adobe should come up with some entirely new visually lossless codec completely free of patent encumbrance and neither low bitrate nor high bitrate but perfect for whatever it is that you do? And it has to be more original than Sony, MPEG, SMPTE, ISO, Fraunhofer and whoever else could come up with, or you're just going to yawn at it from utter boredom?

Here's a tip for you: use AE's Cineon Converter utility to convert Lin-Log with zero Softclip (highlight rolloff), and save as QuickTime Photo-JPEG at around 90-95. Now you have what is effectively a 10-bit file that's completely x-plat compatible (Mac, Win, Lin, Irix, OS2, etc.), inverts back to linear and/or can hold out of range black or white values (you can premult and use the old "matte on super-black" trick), is pretty close to visually lossless, and is available to you right now at no cost.

Other than that, perhaps you'd like to buy some of my hen's teeth and unicorns?



Tim Sassoon
SFD
Santa Monica, CA

 
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