Cineform app install question

Sidecar2 wrote on 11/14/2005, 5:27 PM

Should I install the Cineform app that came with the 6.0a install cd or is there a newer version I should start with? I have 6.0c installed and a new HVR-Z1U I want to experiment with.

I bought Spot's "Everything You Need to Know About HD" and started reading it and then promptly lost the book, so bear with me if I don't know my way around HDV yet.

How do the included Cineform codecs work with 6.0c? Do you have install the Cineform app or does Vegas use the Cineform codecs some other way?

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Spot|DSE wrote on 11/14/2005, 6:24 PM

You already have the codec installed. The app on the Vegas 6 disk is a demo that will time out. If you go that route, download the latest from CineForm's website, it's undergone some massive improvements in the past few months.

The CineForm versions work great in Vegas, BTW.

Sidecar wrote on 11/15/2005, 7:05 AM

Thanks. I dug around in the Vegas Help and found the "intermediate" instructions step that uses the codecs.

I assume that rendering the intermediate avi uses the CineForm codec (though it's not indicated as such).

Still a little fuzzy about the relationship of the orig HD capture and the Cineform intermediate file.

Do you edit the show with the intermediate and then "replace" (conform) the intermediate to the original captures? The help file says you don't have to if you use the CineForm codec. Does that mean the CineForm codec holds all the quality of the original?

Under which circumstances does one use the "replace" function? Are there other intermediates that don't use the CineForm codec?

frazerb wrote on 11/15/2005, 7:53 AM

I am also a bit confused. It sounds like the "Cineform intermediate" file is one that can be used at different resolutions--a lower one for editing and a higher one for final rendering. Is this correct
Buddy

David Newman wrote on 11/15/2005, 9:00 AM

" The help file says you don't have to if you use the CineForm codec. Does that mean the CineForm codec holds all the quality of the original?"

CineForm Intermediate could also be called a digtal master, there is no conform process required. If you use Connect HD the quality of this "intermediate" is the same or higher (if you consider the 4:2:2 upconversion) than the M2T source. See the quality analysis on the CineForm website.

David Newman
CTO, CineForm