Quick Time Issue

[Dinasor]

Hi. I am using speed edit for some editing work now (duh , obviously) . Anyway i was happy that newtek provided support for quicktime files finally, and things were good. Then i had to do some simple comp using 12 inch , which is a collection of pre-rendered effects background. BZZ! Cannot be previewed or imported. By the way the 12 inch files are all quicktime png files, which i never had problem importing into other suites (not VT of course). So, can some one sort me out here please.. Thank you.


Oh also, when will Speed Edit support AMD processors?

[Randy Rouse]

I have seen the same issue here with some of the Digital Juice products that use the Quicktime png format. I convert to avi format and they work fine but it would be nice to use them without conversion.

[John Perkins]

I'll look into that format, but to be honest, I'm not familiar with it.

Is there somewhere that I can download a sample?


Edit: I started posting at the same time and didn't realize that is what Digital Juice shipped as. I've always used the Juicer but I'll check into using them directly.


Yes, SpeedEDIT will support any CPU with SSE2 instructions. For AMD that will be the 64bit chips.

Intel has used SSE2 since the Pentium4.

[Dinasor]

ok. Thanks John, i guess any new AMD systme shouldd not be a problem then, but anyway i hope newtek can give me some answers on the PNG stuff cause u know it can be a lil annoying.
Sample, well go to www.12inchdesigns.com

[Randy Rouse]

Digital Juice seems to use several variations of the Quick Time Codec. The JPEG version seems to work in Speed Edit directly but the PNG does not.

[ScorpioProd]

Yes, I've been using the Digital Juice HD Jump Backs in some projects, and SpeedEDIT reads the QuickTime PhotoJPEG fine. But for real-time playback performance, I render them to SpeedHQ. I did the render in SpeedEDIT's file bin, but I guess I could have used the Juicer for this.

What DJ stuff is in QT PNG? I wanna give it a try, I may have it here.

[Randy Rouse]

I think the motion design elements as well as many of the editor's toolkits are in the PNG format.

[Bobt]

>PNG format.
I know whats Quicktime PNG?

[Randy Rouse]

It seems to be one of the MANY flavors of the Quick Time codec. Try rendering out of speed edit as a .mov file, click on customize and look at the options under the video codec; so many to choose from.

[Dinasor]

There is a reason why the files are rendered as Quicktime PNG. Vital alpha information. If it was to be rendered in any other format the alpha won't be there anymore. So, unless i re render everything to a sequence of tga or png, there is no way i can use my quicktime PNG video in Speed Edit. I really hope this is a temporary setback.

[ScorpioProd]

Sure you can.

Juicer 2 can render to any AVI format, SpeedEDIT comes with SpeedHQ, which has alpha channel support.

Use the Juicer 2 to render what you want to SpeedHQ+alpha.