Cineform Mac OS X Public Beta released

[Tim Dashwood]

http://www.cineform.com/products/Dow...TrialStart.htm

[Jason Nolte]

What does the cineform codec offer?

[Daniel Patton]

Thank you Tim!

I wonder if we can use existing clips captured from Cineform on the Wind-blows platform in FCP now?

[Tim Dashwood]

Originally Posted by Daniel Patton

Thank you Tim!

I wonder if we can use existing clips captured from Cineform on the Wind-blows platform in FCP now?

Apparently not yet, but I'm trying to find a cineform clip somewhere to download and test.

I haven't had any luck using the codec to export from MpegStreamclip. All I get is a white screen in Quicktime player.

[Daniel Patton]

I have a bunch of clips from the PC side, we use Aspect HD for all of our shoot to edit. I might be able to locate a small file to upload if you want to try it.

[Tim Dashwood]

Originally Posted by Daniel Patton

I have a bunch of clips from the PC side, we use Aspect HD for all of our shoot to edit. I might be able to locate a small file to upload if you want to try it.

Anything would be great. You can throw it in my .mac public folder if you want.
"timdashwood"

[Tim Dashwood]

It appears that avi files captured with AspectHD on XP can be directly opened in Quicktime on OS X when the Cineform codec is installed.

I haven't done direct comparisons yet, but from what I can tell the image seems to have many more compression artifacts than I'd expect from what I've read.

I plan to capture the same bit of footage on AspectHD and as m2t. I'll convert the m2t to AIC as well and see if the problem is just in the source HDV.

[Daniel Patton]

That's Great news Tim!

I was out of the office shooting most of last week so I didn't have a chance to try anything out, but from what I was reading I was starting to have serious doubts anyway. The documentation on the Cineform site kind of gave the impression that the Mac version might only read the Cineform files in the MOV/Quicktime format, since thats the wrapper used during Mac/Cineform encoding.

Have you output anything or is the artifacting maybe only visible in the preview monitor in your NLE? The reason I ask is that Aspect HD can look like crap in PPro2.0 during preview but looks fine on final output. It's easy to see that the realtime preview for Aspect HD in Premier is a lower quality setup to speed up editing.

[Chuck Spaulding]

Originally Posted by Daniel Patton

That's Great news Tim!

Have you output anything or is the artifacting maybe only visible in the preview monitor in your NLE? The reason I ask is that Aspect HD can look like crap in PPro2.0 during preview but looks fine on final output. It's easy to see that the realtime preview for Aspect HD in Premier is a lower quality setup to speed up editing.

The quality of the output during playback from the NLE is adjustable, it depends largely on which graphics card your using. I have the FX540 with analog component HD out to a 42" plasma and initially I wasn't that impressed with the quality of the picture. After Cineform support told me how to adjust the graphics card things looked much better.