From: "Stephen van Vuuren" <AE-List@media-motion.tv>
To: After Effects Mail List <AE-List@media-motion.tv>
Subject: RE: [AE] Lossless movie format
Thread-Topic: [AE] Lossless movie format
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Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2014 17:52:20 +0000
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I know most everyone here knows this stuff but for the Kickstarter....

//RANT ON

The utter failure of the industry to provide a lossless, cross-platform, ac=
curate and playable file format for video and film post-production is one o=
f the major headaches of post-production.

The hours, days, weeks - probably months if you add it all up - wasted on n=
ot being able to write ProRes files on Windows, dealing with years of gamma=
 shift issues on QuickTime on Macintosh including have major companies crea=
te workarounds in their codes.

Microsoft has sorely neglected the AVI file format to make in near irreleva=
nt in the modern age. Apple abandoned QuickTime Pro years ago. Avid's codec=
s have failed to incorporate digital cinema and other important standards. =
Adobe has missed an opportunity to provide a solution to a long-standing in=
dustry issue.

Some small developers have tried and failed to create formats suffering fro=
m poor performance and many of the other problems that plague current forma=
ts.

MOX will be open, modern, supporting the worlds of global broadcast, web, d=
igital cinema (DCI compliance) and digital archiving - finally allowing us =
to read and write to a single format that can be read and opened on any pos=
t-production system without worrying about errors, gamma shifts, proprietar=
y systems and the like.

We've suffered long enough under piles of 16-bit TIFF image sequences - bri=
ng us MOX!!!

//RANT OFF


stephen van vuuren
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-----Original Message-----
From: After Effects Mail List [mailto:AE-List@media-motion.tv]=20
Sent: Monday, June 09, 2014 1:15 PM
To: After Effects Mail List
Subject: Re: [AE] Lossless movie format

On Jun 8, 2014, at 12:05 PM, Louai Abu-Osba wrote:

> I hadn't realized this picked up again. I'm so beyond excited. I think MO=
X is a great name and I love the proposal.


Thanks for the encouragement, Louai.

I have a question for everyone: what have been your past struggles with exi=
sting file formats that you hope to solve with MOX?

In other words: let's hear your rant about QuickTime/AVI/OMF/etc.


Your responses will help me with the Kickstarter video and other messaging =
blah blah blah.


Brendan


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