From: "Brendan Bolles" Received: from spike.lmi.net ([66.117.140.17] verified) by media-motion.tv (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.2.10) with ESMTP id 5499310 for AE-List@media-motion.tv; Wed, 11 Jun 2014 20:04:41 +0200 Received: from [10.0.1.10] (c-71-198-249-239.hsd1.ca.comcast.net [71.198.249.239]) by spike.lmi.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 817A61540B1 for ; Wed, 11 Jun 2014 11:04:40 -0700 (PDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1085) Subject: Re: [AE] Lossless movie format In-Reply-To: Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2014 11:04:39 -0700 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: References: To: "After Effects Mail List" X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1085) On Jun 11, 2014, at 2:06 AM, Py Fave wrote: > and one important thing is that the format could be improved later > while keeping compatibility with older files , > and that older software can read newer files (discarding information > that it can't interpret) The MXF container should provide the ability to embed pretty much any = type of metadata, and allow programs who don't understand it to just = skip it. A bigger challenge will probably be finding applications who can read = and write that metadata through the same path they use for video I/O. I = think Nuke is pretty good in this regard though. Brendan