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Christopher Sosa
April 22, 2016 at 9:16 pm in reply to: quicktime problems for adobe cc

[Walter Soyka] “Not a direct answer to your question, but we’ve been using CineForm/MOV as our mezzanine codec. Adobe apps write it directly without QuickTime, and it supports alpha.”

Thanks Walter, but with this QuickTime security issues my companies IT department is probably going to remove it from our systems. So ideally another container file that works with DNxHD would be best. MXF looked promising but I can’t get that alpha to work.

Now I did read a post that stated you could uninstall QuickTime and reinstall just the codec by choosing “only 3rd party apps”. I haven’t tried it yet but it would be great if it’s that easy.

here’s the thread.
https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/2/1072242#1072246
Christopher Sosa
April 22, 2016 at 12:21 am in reply to: quicktime problems for adobe cc

Has anyone had luck with exporting DNxHD MXF with an alpha? Right now we use the .mov wrapper but I can’t seem to get an alpha to come over in AME CC.
Christopher Sosa
May 13, 2015 at 11:21 pm in reply to: Final Bit Depth in Broadcast work?

Your correct, I was just confused on the end results bit depth rate vs the bit depth of my source material.
Christopher Sosa
May 13, 2015 at 3:35 am in reply to: Final Bit Depth in Broadcast work?

Oh… so just realized that’s talking about the audio channel. Can we pretend like I didn’t ask that questions?
Christopher Sosa
May 13, 2015 at 3:25 am in reply to: Final Bit Depth in Broadcast work?

Here you go! Actually, in this example it shows 16bit U but this is the exact file I output for from my end.
Christopher Sosa
May 13, 2015 at 3:08 am in reply to: Final Bit Depth in Broadcast work?

Yes, that does make sense thanks again. Now I do have one last question and I think I’m good. I’ve noticed when I take my uncompressed MOV back into After Effects it recognizes it as being a 32bit U color depth. But if I’m understanding what’s going on it should be a 8bit color depth. Does this have something to do with the metadata retaining what the original comp settings were or am I missing something when I’m rendering. And thanks again Walter I really appreciate you clearing this up. I can’t seem to find any information online that explains it.
Christopher Sosa
May 13, 2015 at 2:29 am in reply to: Final Bit Depth in Broadcast work?

Okay, well that clears up a lot thanks so much for the awesome response. Now when I render out my MOV as Animation codec does it render out the mov with a 8bit color depth? Essentially tone mapping my 32 bit comp into a 8bit video file? Not sure if I said that correctly.