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| I'm on Macs. I use ProRes with Quicktime and it's awesome, but it's reportedly not too Windows-friendly, without hacks. DNxHD is 10-bit, 4444, and free, but not versatile, since it's restricted to a set of frame sizes and frame rates. e.g., you can't make a 300x300 pixel pre-render for use as an element in Ae; you're stuck with PAL, NTSC and HD frame sizes and rates. I think Avid made it much more complicated than necessary. I discovered one that looks interesting, called "UT Video." It seems to have the right specs: It's free, alpha support, 4444, but it's only 8-bit, which is a downside. I've looked at Cineform, but it's not been totally stable for me, and it's not free, which means it's not universal. A lot of people recommend QT Photo-JPEG at 92% quality. No alpha. Not sure of the bit-depth. There's also QT PNG, but I don't use it, because ProRes is more efficient. It supports alpha. Wasn't Adobe working on a Cinema PNG format? For BMD cameras? What's up with that? All these I mentioned aren't lossless, although most are visually lossless. Some lossless codecs shouldn't even be called "codecs" because there's no compression and decompression taking place. It's a term akin to "married bachelor." It's a contradiction. I'm interested to read other insights on this as well. On Jul 18, 2013, at 9:54 AM, Louai Abu-Osba wrote: > Hey All, > > I'm generally curious what everyone is using for a lossless codec these days. > I'm also specifically looking for a Windows friendly, resolution > independent lossless codec in either an avi or mov container. > > -louai > > +---End of message---+ > To unsubscribe send any message to <ae-list-off@media-motion.tv> |
