From a user on the SoCal Vegas forum about this codec:

The software will transcode any h.264 video on a MP4 container to cineform .avi or .mov but won't convert from other containers or compression.
However, the codec is VFW, directshow and quicktime so you can convert whatever files you have to cineform using a batch encoder like virtualdub.
I've used it already to edit files from the Canon 7D and it works!

Mike

VP10 lists a cineform codec as does WMP. This codec is non working within VP10 and I presumed this was a leftover from VP8. Does this 'goPro' cineform codec replace the current codec and function as though it was included as part of the VP10 program?

Geoff

Edit: Thanks Robert. It is indeed the 'missing' codec.

After installing the GoPro app, I've been batch rendering to AVI and MOV in Vegas 10e. I was very surprised how well HD (1920x1080) plays back on the timeline in Vegas 10e on my "slow" Pentium 4 computer. I can get 29.97 fps playback with crossfades. The Avid codec doesn't work nearly as well for me.

However, I don't have a real need for this CineForm codec, I'm just curiously testing it.

When I try to download it I get an XML error message suggesting that the request expired on the 3rd of August. Was this only a limited offer?

The download is working here.
It will be interesting to test next to the Neo Scene codec.

Perhaps you need to be in USA or Canada. Anybody outside there downloaded it? I tried a different email address (hotmail) but still no-go with go-pro.

I successfully converted an MP4 from my Kodak Playtouch.
I can't open the video in Vegas Pro 8.
Anyone know how? A dll?

Perhaps you need to be in USA or Canada.

I’m in the USA and I cannot download it.

Just downloaded from the UK without problem.

The download page doesn't seem to like IE8 - I got the same error when I tried with IE8/WinXP.

But it works with (at least some) other browsers - I tried again with FireFox on the same PC and it downloaded just fine.

Mark

OK, I was trying it with the current version of IE when it did nothing. So, now I tried with Opera. It did go to download and gave me an error message stating that the request expired. One second after making the request, it expired? How absurd is that!

Downloaded fine here, in the UK. Installed and working. However, could someone explain to me how you get from a Canon MOV to a valid .mp4 source file. Renaming not working so what do you need to convert it, and does that introduce any compression loss along the way.

Paul.

So, after my failure to download it with IE, Opera and Lynx, I installed Firefox just to try to get this. It worked. I downloaded it and then uninstalled Firefox.

It is absurd that a company would only allow you to download their software using one specific browser. I was seriously considering to buy the GoPro Hero 3D cameras. Now I will not because I cannot trust I would be able to get whatever software I would need to work with their product.

As for the question about Canon .mov files, this GoPro product only seems to accept .jpg and .mp4 files, so you cannot convert Canon .mov files. But why would you want to? Sony Vegas reads the Canon .mov files just fine, at least my Sony Vegas Pro 10.0e reads the video files produced by my Canon 5D MkII. The only thing from that camera Vegas does not read are the raw .cr2 pictures, so I have to convert them to .png in Photoshop first.

Converting Canon movs to Cineform for two reasons: faster previewing when doing things like multicam and more effects can be applied other than just a bare timeline, its more efficient than Movs in Vegas. A lot more. Canon movs do play, but take heaps of CPU.
Second, you get external control of the media file using meta data, meaning you can do things external from Vegas. Like saturation, contrast, etc. and (with Cineform FirstLight) better colour correction control. Its a great way to work, especially if you work in a team, not just by yourself.
Now this free version looks interesting, but what i would like to know is, can Canon Movs be converted so they work with this.

Paul.

OK, that makes sense.

I just installed GoPro Cineform Studio 1.0.1.60.

I can render to it in Vegas Pro 8.0c and VirtualDub, no problem. In Vegas Pro 10.0e the interface is much more minimal and I get "license err: 444" watermarked in yellow large across the rendered files.

Wondering how Robert managed it.

Another thing... Was Cineform always limited to mod 16?

Edit: I now realise it's because I chose RGB 4:4:4 as the format. There is no watermark if I render YUV 4:2:2.

We do have a mod 16 horizontal limit (not vertically.) Always had this. We might change this one day. Fortunately all the standard horizontal resolutions are divisible by 16: 320, 360, 704, 720, 960, 1280, 1440, 1920, 2048 and so on.