Quicktime in?

[kalthans]

i’m curious what everyone out there is using to get Quicktime-based media into their discreet systems (weather it be for offlines, reference, uncompressed, etc.)

quite frequently we are handed a DVD or a flash drive by clients with a bunch of QTs on it of varying provenance with instructions of “here…bring this into the shot….” Likewise many longform shows are being cut on FCP and houses send out QT’s of the ref edit rather than tape.

Embarrasingly our $300k discreet boxes can’t ingest the footage natively but just about any other system out there can (avid, FCP, AE, etc). The tired process of having to export frames from QTPro or use a secondardy FCP system to lay off to tape is just not acceptable. I fully understand the licensing issues involved with SGI/Linux and Apple but AME has sorta solved the export issue by incorporating Cleaner. I dont’ find it unreasonable to expect that they provide an analogue on the import side.

C>Me looks quite promising as well as a lot of the other apps mentioned at NAB/IBC that are taking advantage of the new features of Wiretap (http://www.fxguide.com/article368.html). We recently demoed a box called a “Content Agent” (or something to that effect) but it only really worked with networked media, not stones.

I’d just like to hear a few people chime in about what their current workflow is and how they’d like it improved.

thanks all

k

[lwaldron]

C>me will be perfect for your situation. 😀 You can drop any codec of AVI or Quicktime or MPEG2 or ANYTHING into C>me and it will transfer onto your stone as fast as your Gigabit network will allow. We’re very very close to a release version now…just finishing up the last sections of code to make it as bug free as we possibly can.

[pixelmonk]

Looking forward to trying it!
At the momemt I use QT pro to convert, it’s a real PITA but works.
As you say for such a “hero” box it really is about time this was sorted out, it’s not as if quicktime is some obscure format.

Paul

[bnw]

Does no-one have inhouse Sparks to do this? It would be fairly easy to knock up an importer that would read practically anything, there are enough open-source video libraries out there… especially now, on Linux.

[mascou77]

For shure, you cannot import quicktimes in a discreet linux box
The only workaround (besides exporting frames sequences) is, if you’re lucky enough to have an irix discreet system, import quicktimes straight from it (flame / Smoke) , then on the linux system, just wire them back in

[cyril conforti]

We have Quicktime IN, also i encourage you to try shrink.quicktime and tether. they allow you to use clips that live on flame in any quicktime application in OSX.

http://www.shrinkquicktime.com

alan

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