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 5499544 for AE-List@media-motion.tv; Thu, 12 Jun 2014 01:18:38 +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 9719715402F for ; Wed, 11 Jun 2014 16:18:37 -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 16:18:36 -0700 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <42011DA1-A813-45A3-9AA3-82A5D4E94C60@fnordware.com> References: To: "After Effects Mail List" X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1085) On Jun 11, 2014, at 3:30 PM, Robert Kjettrup wrote: > What im asking is not to have the virtual conversion of files of this, = but would it be possible to have some way to access into the MOX = container and see the file sequence of the movie, and be able to update = only part of it, much like we do now with image sequences, but just it = all is contained in the MOX wrapper? Could this be possible to have the = MOX act as a virtual folder accessible from the filesystem? or is this = just way too complex and maybe need support from the filesystem itself = (as far as i know the dps-velocity had its own filesystm on its video = drive) Hey Robert, unfortunately I don't think the virtual folder thing is = possible without filesystem support. Most filesystems support hard = links where one file is actually pointing to another file, but as far as = I know it is always the whole file. There is no way to point to just a = piece of a larger file. On the Mac, you could use packaging to store an image sequence in a = folder and give it the appearance of a single file. That could be very = nice, but of course it wouldn't work cross-platform. I think it may be possible to overwrite just one piece of a MOX. The = MXF container supports some level of cuts-based editing like you have in = QuickTime. I'll have to dive in there to see how feasible it is, and = then there's the problem of getting applications to actually support = that feature. > GrassValley has a DNxHD/ProRes/CineForm/Dirac(?) flavour of their own = called HQX that is quite comparable in quality to those others, but is = without many of the restictions of them, and they made it free for all = recently. Yes, I am aware of HQX and it seems like a really good codec. You can = download the codec for free, but it is not open source and I feel like = Grass Valley has no intention of making it so. Once we get this project = going, I suppose it wouldn't hurt to ask them though. Brendan