[Tom Sefton] “I’m really very curious at this case, as it seems as though if Apple lose the motion to strike, they are left with the option of buying red or writing them a big cheque to continue with their plans”
I don’t think this really affects Apple directly at all UNLESS they have future plans to implement a RAW codec into the iPhone.
More immediately it affects any camera manufacturer who wants to record a compressed movie file of a Bayer-pattern RAW signal in-camera at 23.98fps or faster. As long as you are recording to an external device (Atmos or Codex, for instance) or an uncompressed RAW (like ARRIRAW) or an image sequence (like cDNG), then you are generally OK, AFAIK.
So, Apple’s interest would be in getting camera manufacturers to adopt ProRes RAW in-camera, since the patent would seem to impede that.
– Oliver
Oliver Peters – oliverpeters.com