Return-Path: Received: from spike.lmi.net ([66.117.140.17] verified) by media-motion.tv (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.2.10) with ESMTP id 5095610 for AE-List@media-motion.tv; Tue, 04 Jun 2013 20:03:11 +0200 Received: from [10.0.1.32] (c-71-198-249-239.hsd1.ca.comcast.net [71.198.249.239]) by spike.lmi.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3316C15405A for ; Tue, 4 Jun 2013 11:12:50 -0700 (PDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1085) Subject: Re: [AE] AE to QT Color Problem From: Brendan Bolles In-Reply-To: Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2013 11:12:49 -0700 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <5EF2C5DD-F790-4C2F-B49B-148A93DBB219@fnordware.com> References: To: "After Effects Mail List" X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1085) On Jun 4, 2013, at 4:30 AM, Robert Kjettrup wrote: > But everytime a client asks for an QT h264 i just encode an MP4 and = there is no problem for them to play it back. And telling them to use = VLC to view it too if they are a bit computer savy, and there is no = gamma issues. This seems like a good solution to me - leave QuickTime out of it all = together. And there are many other MP4 players to choose from in = addition to VLC. Another movie format I've been checking out is WebM, an open source = format sponsored by Google. It will soon support 4:4:4, alpha channel, = depth channel, and maybe 10-bit. Seems like it could be a good open = source replacement for ProRes if it gets wider adoption. You can = currently play WebM directly in Firefox, Chrome, VLC, and others. They have a companion still image format, WebP, which supports lossless = compression too. Unfortunately, the movie format doesn't currently do = lossless. Brendan