On Fri August 10 2007, mark carter wrote: > * what file formats do the "pros" use? Is there a wide range, or is the > scope restricted?
I can speak to this question, but not really answer it. I operate a studio in Northern Virginia near Washington, DC. I edit principally on two platforms, DPS Velocity and Sony Vegas. The Velocity is a real real time hardware board with the capability to handle two video streams of extremely high quality, and two graphics busses, all in real time (it can handle much more but once you exceed the real time capabilities, it renders); it has 3D DVE processor, and can handle single transitions in real time - it has a huge library of transitions built in, all of which are key-framable, and can have all parameters tweaked; that hardware card encodes to mjpeg -- it can encode at all sorts of compression levels and goes all the way up to uncompressed; the Sony Vegas workstation is completely different - it will handle any codec I have installed on my machine, with a very few exceptions. Final Cut Pro uses Quicktime wrappers and can handle codecs that are installed on the machine. In other words, just in the limited part of the professional world in which I dwell, there are multiple formats in use. There's also MX, DVCPro (various flavors), HDCam, XDCam, BetaSX and on and on -- what I'm saying is that there is no small set of formats in use by pros -- there are many out there, and interoperation between them is a battle we have to contend with every day. Sony Vegas is a software only NLE, and Cinelerra is loosely following the same model - meaning, that it handles multiple formats and seems to be heading towards more -- from my perspective, in the world I have to operate in, I think that's a good thing. Proxy file editing is a good thing, but, just being able to throw a bunch of different files on a timeline and let the software figure it out in render is extremely important as well. Different projects have different requirements. -- Claude Jones Brunswick, MD, USA _______________________________________________ Cinelerra mailing list Cinelerra@skolelinux.no https://init.linpro.no/mailman/skolelinux.no/listinfo/cinelerra
