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Libavcodec (or huffyuv) codec in Final Cut Pro?
Hello,
I am trying to find a good format to store captured video game footage in a lossless codec. On my PC, I have them saved with the Huffyuv codec.Is there any way possible to get Final Cut Pro 5 to use the Huffyuv codec or, more precisely, to get Final Cut Pro 5 to use the open-source libavcodec library (libavcodec includes Huffyuv), which is actually available for Mac OS X (unlike the actual Huffyuv codec)?
Of course, I am always up for a lengthy conversion to something else, but I would prefer these videos to remain lossless until they are compressed for release. On my PC, I am using VirtualDub for compression/recompression. Another issue with loading these files in FC 5 is the rendering time. I have many of these videos compressed in MPEG-4 (With Xvid) and after applying a DivX trick to FC 5 Pro, FC 5 can read the files, but it takes a long time to render. I would prefer to have quicker rendering times with another codec like Huffyuf. Any suggestions this way? (Note: The codec must be available on both Mac OS X and PC)
Any help is much appreciated. Mind you, I cannot test your solutions the Mac OS X 1.4 with Final Cut Pro 5 that I am using is not at my disposal until Monday.
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Wow…I haven’t heard of any of the codecs you are talking about. Since they aren’t anywhere on the list of what FCP supports, I don’t see them working with FCP. You’ll need to transcode into a codec FCP supports.
Capturing stuff on a PC, then transferring to FCP is never a smooth process.
Shane
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Thanks. Do you have any recommendations on a lossless codec supported by Final Cut Pro?
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Personally – if you want to be solidly cross-platform like this, I’d encode to Photo JPEG at 75% It’s part of quicktime on both platforms and the quality should be good enough.
-Simmie
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There is an article in the VERY soon to ship Creative COW Magazine about how Film Roman (The Simpsons, etc.) uses the BitJazz SheerVideo codec to do just this very thing. They work cross-platform and online using FCP with their cell animations coming over the internet from Korea from artists working on PCs.
To keep everything lossless and accessible, they use the BitJazz SheerVideo codec that is supported by FCP.
Sign up for the magazine at https://www.creativecowmagazine.net — it’s free.
Best regards,
Ron Lindeboom
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I do believe Perian “The Swiss Army Knife” has support for this codec. I am working with that same one on a PC and when I look at the inspector window, I see the Huffyuv codec listed with a (Perian) listed right next to it.
Hope this helps.
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