Other Movie Playback Formats

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Other Movie Playback Formats

Although the formats above are the native (preferred) playback formats, there is an included conversion program (DFM) that can convert from other movie formats for playback on Delta.

DFM is a separate application which runs on the server or any other Windows PC and enables the following types of media to be converted to one of the native 7TH movie formats: MXF, MOV, MP4, LXF, ASF, WMV, DV, MPEG-PS, MPEG-TS, GXF, FLV, AVI, MKV, WebM, HapQ, or image sequences of JPG, BMP, TIF, PNG or DPX.

There are also Plug-ins for Adobe After Effects, and Nuke that allow native rendering of 7TH422 sequences or STH422 sequences.

Notes:

With codec movie formats, the audio is in-built and speaker mapping is encoded in the file itself, so Delta audio control available is therefore only volume control (no channel mapping as is possible with separate audio files – see audio files below).

Codecs are supported for media prototyping type purposes only, and are never recommended as the final deliverable/show content.

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DFM can unpack these types of media (see note below) and save out a movie in one of these 7TH formats:

7TH-420: 2:1 reduction in storage requirement

7TH-422: 1.5:1 reduction in storage requirement

7TH-444: no reduction in storage requirement

The 7TH-444 format can also contain an alpha plane if required.

Note: DFM can only unpack a media file if the relevant codec is found on that PC (image sequences do not require a codec) – the general rule of thumb is that if the media can play in Windows Media Player, DFM can convert it.

For full details, please see the DFM User Guide.

Page edited [d/m/y]: 11/04/2024