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, accurate and playable file format for video and film post-production is one of the major headaches of post-production.

The hours, days, weeks - probably months if you add it all up - wasted on not being able to write ProRes files on Windows, dealing with years of gamma shift issues on QuickTime on Macintosh including have major companies create workarounds in their codes.

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

Some small developers have tried and failed to create formats suffering from poor performance and many of the other problems that plague current formats.

MOX will be open, modern, supporting the worlds of global broadcast, web, digital 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 post-production system without worrying about errors, gamma shifts, proprietary systems and the like.

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

//RANT OFF


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Sent: Monday, June 09, 2014 1:15 PM
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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 MOX 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 existing 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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