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[Oliver Peters] “AFAIK, that’s not Animation codec”
Sorry. I was wrong. Yes, it is Animation. The Adobe issue gets back to Adobe dropping support for QT7. So it was probably a CC update and not a Win10 update that did it. I’ve found a few forums that suggest rolling back to a slightly earlier version of the CC app to get through this.
– Oliver
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[Shane Ross] “it said QUICKTIME RLE format…which googling got me to ANIMATION.”
AFAIK, that’s not Animation codec. It’s a much older format. So it’s doesn’t surprise me that it isn’t supported. I believe Animation .mov is still supported in Windows, since that’s an old version of QT anyway on PCs. Is he sure that the Windows update didn’t actually wipe out QT or the older libraries?
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[Shane Ross] “It’s being able to WORK with these formats. “
I presume these were wrapped as .mov and not .avi (since it was a Windows user). I’d bet .mov. Have you or this person tried to bringing the files into Media Composer or any Adobe application? Going forward, that’s where the support will come from.
– Oliver
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[Andrew Kimery] “but it is possible to skate too far ahead of the puck”
Look, I personally have no interest in 8K or 16K. However, the Japanese are already venturing into those areas. So it’s not 2023. The point is, if you are going to rework the pipeline, you want as much potential headroom as possible. I suspect FCPX and the 2019 MP will be fine with 16K projects. But it seems to me the pipeline issue may bite them sooner than later.
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BTW – I realize no one here wants to hear this, but with Apple focusing on 8K video with a 16-bit float pipeline, they are already behind the eight-ball in terms of where the industry could be headed. For example, Avid is being re-coded as 32-bit float with 16K project sizes possible. Also an uncompressed version of DNx and ACES workflow support.
– Oliver
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Shane, the issue is that Apple opted not to support these codecs in AVF and by extension the QT Player app. They did for DV, but not the others. So it really has nothing to do with the fact that these are 32-bit. Merely that Apple opted to limit the amount of work required on their part. While inconvenient, and in some cases hard to justify, you have to draw the line somewhere, I suppose.
This mainly affects these codecs if they are wrapped in an .mov wrapper. Apple left it up to others to write the necessary modules. This is what Avid, BMD, and Adobe have done for DNx wrapped as .mxf. Depending on the codec in macOS, QT will ignore some and convert (transcode) others. Get a professional player tool if needed, like Switch. Don’t rely on QT.
– Oliver
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[Bill Davis] “But, Shane, this is NOT an Apple thing and it’s not even an actual codec issue, per se.
It’s a OS issue. “Incorrect. This is a choice issue. Apple could have added the ability to interpret these codecs into AV Foundations, as the did for the DV codecs. They chose not to.
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ProTools should be able to work with H.264. What are the specs of the file? Data rate, FPS, size, wrapper? Alternative codecs would be Apple ProResProxy or Avid DNxHD36.
– Oliver
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[Bill Davis] “As such, I’d expect this approach would have an extremely long life expectancy.”
This may be different, but as products go, that hasn’t been the track record.
– Oliver
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[Mark Suszko] “The Fusion software seems to be limited to pulling files from the camera directly, and all I have are mpeg 4 files that were transcoded and archived onto our server.”
It doesn’t have to be from the camera, but the card’s folder structure has to stay intact. This is especially true with their 360 files, as there is a front and a back image file.
– Oliver
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