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dear friends
i have file movie .movfrom Canon 5D but i cant import into smoke ?????????
the smoke cant read it i now import it to after effect then send it to smoke
but the files size very big …Is there a solution ??plz send me on
[email protected]Smoke (and flame) does not support that many quicktime codecs. That’s just the way it is, but it is getting better. Back in the days almost no quicktime codecs were supported. And with Autodesk moving over to osx & “Smack” quicktime support is probably going to get even better. With that said, importing quicktimes was never a problem anyways, what you have to do is using quicktime pro (or something like after effects) and export the quicktime to a file sequence. Be sure that you know what you do when it comes to gamma, that will differ if you are exporting from a mac or pc. That quickly leads me to that quicktime is something that you’d want to stay away from as much as possible anyways, it’s such an unprofessional format and totally unpredictable when it comes to color and trying to control that, especially if you are going cross platform. It’s an absolute nightmare. Sorry for the rant, I just hate quicktime from the bottom of my heart.
Oh, and if your quicktime has audio you need to export that separately as a wav or aif file. Easily done in quicktime pro.Weird though, I know that I have imported 5D quicktime footage directly in our Flame. Maybe you have an older version that does not support that format? I actually also did a comparative test, just for the fun of it. I exported the same file to a tiff-sequence on a mac and then did the same thing on a pc and finally brought the quicktime in directly letting flame do the conversion. Not very surprising all of the imports had different gamma, and even after compensating for the gamma difference they still had slightly different color (if I remember correctly the Flame version was slightly different, probably because the conversion was done on Linux). So in my opinion quicktime has nothing to do in the pro part of this business, only slightly useful for non color critical preview purposes or where playback and small file sizes are needed. Rant over.
Good luck with importing your quicktimes 🙂
can use tether on OSX to send any quicktime directly into Smoke/Flame… http://www.tether.it
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