Bye bye Cineform

There's simply too much hazzle involved working with the Cineform codec in the Production Studio Suite and between several systems like I do. I'm constantly jockying the 15 day trials even though I own a license. It's proven more convenient for me to reinstall WinXP and the entire suite and all the plugins than to actually wait for deactivation and activation procedures from Cineform.

I actually only own Connect HD since the only thing I need is the CFHD codec in my media architecture. I don't need any real time features in Premiere Pro. I never use PPro to capture HDV streams. All my files are already on disk and are mostly CG and FX plates.

So I'm going a different route. It's a shame because Cineform HAS the best wavelet codec around. No doubt about that. But this time piracy won the battle. Cineform is loosing a client - I was really close to getting the NEO 10-bit.

It's funny. It looks like my film YEAR ONE that started in Mjpeg 4:2:2 1,5:1 compression SD (Aurora Video's Igniter system) will be ending up in Mjpeg 4:2:2 HD. Right now all the files are being converted to Black Magic Design's Mjpeg codec. It's the kind of light weight codec I'm looking for and it hold's up for what I'm doing. And it's just there to install. It works.