----- Original Message -----
Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2006 4:27
PM
Subject: RE: Quicktime-cleaner/procoder
procoder
A ref movie is just a
movie that "refers" to the original files on the capture site. You can't
transport and have it play on another machine unless that machine has both the
codec for viewing the files, and a clear path through a network to the drives
they are on. The great thing about ref files is that they are a quick
way to enable another piece of software to encode for it's own purpose without
having to actually export a movie from DS, and then re-encode it. For
instance, I export a ref file of a finished show, then make it an asset in
Adobe Encore DVD authoring software. Then once I've finished the
authoring stage, Encore only has to encode the files to vob. Instead of
spending 10 minutes or so exporting a quicktime from DS, which is then going
to be re-encoded by Encore to play on a DVD(probably several more minutes), I
just pump out a ref file and Encore is the only encoding needed!
From: owner-ds(at)Softimage.COM
[mailto:owner-ds(at)Softimage.COM] On Behalf Of michael
thomas
Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2006 2:18 PM
To:
DS(at)Softimage.COM
Subject: Re: Quicktime-cleaner/procoder procoder
After reading your post a second time I realized that you were talking
about "ref" movies, I haven't been using those, I have been doing standard
exports. WOW.. the ref movie is a much better way to do this! fast, fast,
fast!! The AVI ref worked fine, but the QT will
not work as a ref file or a standard export.
Also it appears that the compression will have to occur here on the DS,
we tried sending the ref movie across our network for someone else to
compress, but had no success.
Thanks for waking me up to ref files!!!
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2006 2:05
PM
Subject: SV: Quicktime-cleaner/procoder
procoder
Yes, but it works every single time. It
takes longer because the audio needs to be exported as a file, only the
video is referenced.
Rune
I can create AVI's and send them to cleaner for compression, but the
export time seems to be substatialy longer, and when you have 40 spots to
export, compress and post to the web, that extra time sure adds up.
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2006
11:33 AM
Subject: SV:
Quicktime-cleaner/procoder procoder
Why do you use quicktime ref and not
avi?
Rune
I posted last week about the problems I was having with
quicktimes exported out of DS not working in cleaner or
procoder.
Well, I have an interesting observation to share.
Quicktimes exported from projects created BEFORE qfe3 work just
fine in Cleaner or Procoder, Quicktimes exported from projects
created AFTER qfe 3 qive an error message(General QT errror) when
loaded into Cleaner or procoder.
Michael
