Re: platform independent video codecs

Date : Tue, 11 Mar 2008 17:38:57 -0700
To : XSI(at)Softimage.COM
From : "Alan Fregtman" <alan.fregtman(at)gmail.com>
Subject : Re: platform independent video codecs
I know it's for the web, but I don't suppose FLV is an option?


On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 11:42 PM, digimata <digimata(at)digimata.com> wrote:
>
>  You should find what codec MAC  version of the audio will play and then
> match it on the PC side.
>  You can also try re-encode as Mpeg1
>  If you have Adobe Premiere CS3, you can also add visible running timecode
> to help your audio guy
>
>  Leo
>
>
>
>  Matt Lind wrote:
>
> Can anybody recommend a specific video codec that works on both PC and MAC
> and can be accessed by the capture tool in XSI?
>
> Our audio guy needs short movies from the animators so he can do his sound
> sync work.  Trouble is, the software he's using (Wise) can only load
> multiple movie files in the same session if they're compressed with
> identical specs (resolution, bitrate, codec, color depth, ...).  We've got
> to capture movies from XSI and Fraps (captures movies from our game engine).
> These movies need to be viewable on both the PC and MAC version of the audio
> software.  PC being more important.  We've found some codecs that work on
> the PC side, but none are readable by the MAC version of his audio software.
> We've tried Quicktime w Sorenson and cinepak compression, neither work.
>
> Suggestions?
>
>
> thanks,
>
> Matt
>
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