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ok, after hours of experimenting we r slowly going insane.
We r trying desperatly to bring a movie from avid xpress pro ( windows xp ) to flame.
Until now with no success, the only thing tha works are tga. sequences..and its becoming slowly a gigantic mess of files..
Flame can import quicktime but its not working or should we go with .avi?Question 1.
is there any codec we need to install on the pc for exporting into flame
or viceversa?Question 2.
How is it possible flame cant read uncompressed quicktime <<<<
now thats mind blowing. I dont think there is any compositing programm in the world that cant do that.maybe is there a 3rd party converter?
hope someone can clear things up.
urbyAs far as quicktimes…
Make sure that when you render out from avid, you have the uncompressed, or “none” CODEC selected. Also be sure that you are rendering MILLIONS OF COLORS, not millions of colors+. Also check the audio on the quicktime. Flame should be able to import a QT with two channels of audio, but be sure that they are uncompressed (there are codec options in QT audio as well). Finally, there’s the old 2GB file size issue, if you’re on a Mac that is.
Try rendering out the first 10 seconds or so in QT, and then AVI. If they work, you should be OK.
Hope this helps…
-Andy
No problem!
What version of flame are you using?
-Andy
urbanfx wrote:ok, after hours of experimenting we r slowly going insane.
We r trying desperatly to bring a movie from avid xpress pro ( windows xp ) to flame.
Until now with no success, the only thing tha works are tga. sequences..and its becoming slowly a gigantic mess of files..
Flame can import quicktime but its not working or should we go with .avi?Question 1.
is there any codec we need to install on the pc for exporting into flame
or viceversa?Question 2.
How is it possible flame cant read uncompressed quicktime <<<<
now thats mind blowing. I dont think there is any compositing programm in the world that cant do that.maybe is there a 3rd party converter?
hope someone can clear things up.
urbyYou should use Xstoner…works like a charm, and you never have to worry about codec incompatibility between IRIX and PC/Mac systems. It does all the conversion for you, and you end up with a clip in whichever library you specify. At the moment it doesn’t support embedded audio, but neither does anything else. Just make sure you get the audio in a separate file, or strip it out yourself.
urbanfx wrote:Ive heard of xstoner u r actually the first one telling me about it thats its worth it, but Id really like to know if there is once in a life a solution that doesnt cost something.. ( playing out 2 digibeta and capturing on flame, I know that one 😉 )at the price of flame anyway I think its ridiculous that it isnt able to do this.. ” king of composites ” < right pff, well I guess I have to waste again more money..
lets see what I can pay for next week
Complain to SGI…it’s an IRIX limitation, not discreet.
hmmmmm….. i import uncompressed qt’s all the time into smoke 6.5 and flame 9 (qt with “none” compression)…
and as for the 2gb file size limit, i dont know where that comes from because i just imported a 47gb qt file into my smoke 6.5 this morning 🙂
actually, the video was from dvcpro captured over firewire into final cut pro….. then exported from fcp as quicktime “none” compression with millions of colors….. then tossed over to the system drive of my octane2, then imported
In my expirience, the only way I manage to export to Flame/Inferno is to export from the Mac/PC an Image sequence and then load it into Flame.
my best results were from After Effects. I would recomend TIFF for 8bit (at either 24 or 32 bit) or you can use .SGI or Cineon if it’s more
As FFI won’t recognize the avid codec, I always convert to sgi’s with QT pro.
Paul
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