Re: [Nuke-users] Windows 10 / ProRes files viewer

[Marrocco, Sam]

On 9/21/2016 10:37 AM, Sven Schönmann wrote:

Hi Sam,

great...thanks! I will definitely have a look into it. Sounds really good.

And +1 for "tired of VLC"...



I agree.
I'd like to see MPV (and other players) adopt some audio caching so that
they could jog backwards and play back audio while jogging. We been
embedding MPV into an in-house player with very good results and I'm
considering making a version that we can give to clients to avoid the
dreaded "why doesn't it look the same on my laptop in quicktime player?"

If I had a nickel for every time I've heard that..




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Re: [Nuke-users] Windows 10 / ProRes files viewer

[Marrocco, Sam]

On 9/21/2016 8:35 AM, Sven Schönmann wrote:

Hey Guys,

a little bit offtopic here (sorry) but what do you guys use for just
checking ProRes Quicktimes very fast in the OS?





I suggest you look into MPV. It's a derivative of MPlayer that uses
ffmpeg-related components. We've been experimenting with it for a bit
for approval viewing and having some good results. Self-contained and
can be embedded into your own player code if you have programmers
available. Seems more reliable (for us, at least) than VLC, which always
seems buggy. Plus, we got tired of VLC's buggy jog controls. MPV also
plays back uncompressed quicktimes, which seems to crash VLC depending
which release you use. Free, and cross platform for Windows, Mac and Linux.



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Re: [Nuke-users] Nuke Studio : Windows and QT

[Marrocco, Sam]

On 7/13/2016 12:03 AM, Randy Little wrote:


Ffmpeg prores is not spec compliant. Color issues and in some cases
they just don't work.  So I would be careful using ffmpeg for prores.
We have had editorial kick them back for color.




Of course, you should always be careful and test everything.

In my experience (ymmv), ffmpeg prores can be made to "fool" the
metadata readers in apps if you can determine what they are looking for
in the files. Like anything, it all depends upon how much time you are
willing to put into the process. Of course, I'm not using your (Randy's)
files so I can't speak for them.

Color issues are only the case if, as I mentioned, you are diligent and
nail down your colorspace and parameters.

ffmpeg is a powerful & complex tool that makes it extremely easy to ruin
a file.


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Re: [Nuke-users] Nuke Studio : Windows and QT

[Marrocco, Sam]

On 7/12/2016 7:46 PM, Phillip Lange wrote:


Now that QT for Windows is out of the picture I'm looking around for a
new way to create my H264's from my ProRes masters. Ideally Nuke
Studio would be able to create these for me on export but it doesn't
seem to support it.





Phillip,
I'd suggest exploring ffmpeg as an option. We've been using it for years
to create both approval H264s and ProRes masters on Windows, should work
the same on whatever platform you are running. You could probably
encapsulate it into a script that would be callable directly via
Python/Nuke to simplify the calling once you nail down your parameters.
Just be careful to understand its colorspace handling. Assume nothing
and tell it everything about the source images.



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