Archive for the ‘Post production’ Category

Third day trying to get the Cineform codec activated. I had this exact same issue when I bought a license four years ago. The copy protection on Cineforms products are insane. Last time I had problems with activating it was because I changed hardware during registration. After having their support analyzing a log file it turns out the hardware change consisted of me removing an external firewire drive at some point during the long and tedious process.

I’m starting to regret the decision to go back to Cineform for the project I’m working on right now…

If you haven’t already discovered Microsofts great (and completely free) compression tool Expression Encoder – try it.

Expression Encoder let’s you capture super clean screen recordings, encode QuickTime/AVI/MPEG and other formats to the VC-1 codec and it let’s you automatically embed the video into a Silverlight app for publishing. In my experience this free alternative is far better than many of the commercial solutions out there right now. Expression Encoder is a free component of the commercial package Microsoft Expression – a software suite for web site authoring.

In case you’re wondering about the specifications for authoring stereoscopic video supported by Nvidia (and other) hardware there’s a great resource over at 3dtv.at.

I use their Stereoscopic Player and Stereoscopic Multiplexer all the time. Great tools for streaming left/right video files in and out of you machine.

Here’s Microsofts technical overview of the VC-1 codec that is used for streaming stereoscopic video.