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| Oh Brendan, I'm so happy you're on this that I'm going to skip all the way home. On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 4:21 PM, Brendan Bolles <brendan@fnordware.com> wrote: > On Jul 18, 2013, at 12:17 PM, Stephen van Vuuren wrote: > >> It’s not a Mac vs. PC. It’s the utter lack of cross-platform professional codec that all companies share responsibility for. > > > OK, I'm trying to keep my mouth shut about an unfinished, un-annouced thing, but I can't do it. > > I've recently made open source plug-ins for the WebM and Ogg Theora formats. You can read about and download them here: > > http://forums.adobe.com/message/5465653 > http://forums.adobe.com/message/5475472 > > > These are basically open source movie formats to compete with H.264 in the HTML5 standard. > > But upon looking into Ogg, I saw that it supports a series of other codecs: > > http://www.xiph.org/ > > > One very interesting codec is Dirac, which was made by the BBC. It supports lossy and lossless compression, 16-bit even. It uses wavelets like JPEG 2000, so it also appears to do the auto-proxy thing you can do with JPEG 2000. > > I plan to add some other codecs as well, such as PNG and OpenEXR, so you'll be able to render linear float to a movie format. > > But the key is that this is an open movie format and I'm releasing the plug-ins as open source. You can already see the code for the WebM and Theora plug-ins on GitHub. So you will not have the Microcosm problem, or even the problem with QuickTime being a closed format. It will be completely open for people to port to any platform. > > > Now, I still have a lot of work to do on this project! But for now you can try out the Theora and WebM plug-ins and give me feedback (you'll have to render your AE project through Media Encoder). > > BTW, WebM's new codec, VP9, should be adding some features that may be useful to us, like alpha channel support and maybe even lossless/10-bit. > > It has always bothered me that people were storing their pixels in proprietary formats. I've made plug-ins for a variety of still image formats, and now I'm going after movies. Stay tuned. > > > Brendan > > > +---End of message---+ > To unsubscribe send any message to <ae-list-off@media-motion.tv> |
