[Tig] what are we going to do (monitors)

[Bob Kertesz]

> > It would be nice if the manufacturers figured out a common digital format for
> >interchange... and/or perhaps a format that is the computer equivalent
> >of SDI (with timecode information, vertical interval information,
> >frame rate, embedded audio).
>
>I think Apple would likely claim that Quicktime already has everything  
>you just mentioned and more. Of course, it's also a proprietary Apple  
>product, although as we know it is multiplatform (well, generally,  
>except for some codecs that they insist on keeping Mac-only) and  
>generally available (and free to end users).

The big problem I'm seeing with Quicktime is that many times it's used as a
wrapper, and the underlying video can still need some obscure or buggy or
need-to-buy-it codec to be useful. Just because I'm given a Quicktime (.MOV)
file doesn't guarantee I'll be able to import it into anything, in my
relatively minor experience.

And then there's the whole Mac-Windows gamma thing that QT insists on doing.

And as you mentioned, it's also proprietary and its specs can be changed at
any time on a whim. What happens if next week Jobs decides it will be Mac-only
in all future releases?

The truest interchange at the moment seems to be a series of graphics file
which can be imported and made into a movie. Everything in the world seems to
be able to deal with 5,000 TGA files in a sequence. No audio or timecode, of
course, but the pictures always work.

--Bob

Bob Kertesz
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