quicktime codecs

[Alex Harding]

Thanks Dave that’s a really concise answer.

One question, what do you think of the apple intermediate codec for this kind of thing?

I have final cut so pro res is an option, although it worries me slightly that other people’s machines might not be able to read it. Hmm.

Thanks,

Alex

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[Alex Harding]

Ha!

Well that’s pretty damming. Thanks for the advice that’s all very helpful.

Pro res it is!

Cheers,

Alex

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[Kevin Camp]

[Dave LaRonde] “don’t overlook the tried-and-true codecs like PNG and Animation”

those codecs are also standard qt components for both mac and pc, so they don’t require a specific platform or fcp, just quicktime (or even quicktime alternative).

same goes with quicktime photo-jpeg, which for quality-to-file-size ratio is a good way to go for video without a key (hence why many stock footage companies use it for their footage).

Kevin Camp
Senior Designer
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[Walter Soyka]

[Alex Harding] “I have final cut so pro res is an option, although it worries me slightly that other people’s machines might not be able to read it. Hmm.”

ProRes decoding is supported on recent versions of Quicktime for both Windows and Mac. While you need FCP to encode ProRes, any Quicktime application should be able to read it.

Apple released separate installers for the ProRes decoder for Windows and ProRes decoder for Mac a couple years ago, but I think they are now included in Quicktime.

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[Alex Harding]

excellent news, thanks