Highly compressed files produced by cameras are not well-suited for post- production, as reading a single frame often requires decompressing many others first. Older legacy codecs are being dropped by the operating system vendors. Or, you may have to look online for the appropriate codec for footage supplied by a customer.
If you have a particular hardware device that produces movie files, such as a camera or disk recorder, be sure to install the software that came with that device, so that its files can be read.
The operating system software loaded on your particular machine plays a large part in determining what movies can be read. Much like still cameras can produce "RAW" images that require special software to read them and produce standard PNGs or JPEGs, some cameras produce specialized image formats that must be converted to standard formats for further use. MXFs containing data other than ARRIRAW are passed to the operating system, which may or may not be able to read them. MXF files are “containers” that may have data from a wide variety of different codecs. WARNING : SynthEyes can itself read only MXF files that contain ARRIRAW data. (If you turn off the Write frame index files preference, no times file is written, and each re-opening will take as long as the first.) This index is written with a ".atimes", ".btimes", or ".times" extension so that subsequent opens occur rapidly. You may encounter substantial delays the first time you open a "movie" file using Quicktime on the Mac or Windows Media Foundation on Windows, as the file must be indexed to locate the time stamp of each frame. If you are unable to open HEVC/H.265 files, please see HEVC/H.265 on Windows 10.
mp4 may contain several different codecs, not just H.265. These files are typically produced by the latest cameras (especially 360VR) and drones, with a. Microsoft has (re)moved support for HEVC/H.265 files to an optional Windows Store download (free or $0.99). SynthEyes for Linux can only read ARRIRAW-only MXF, Blackmagic RAW, and RED movies. It is the purpose of the operating system to provide this kind of shared capability to all the applications, so that each one does not have to do so, which would be impossible.
SynthEyes does not contain the complex code to read movie files "on its own," with the exception of ARRIRAW-only MXF, Blackmagic RAW, and RED files, which are built in. SynthEyes uses the operating system, ie Windows, Linux, or macOS, to read most movie files. Inter-frame compression makes it time-consuming to access any specific frame. There is a vast profusion of compression and file formats, andĢ. However, these formats have limitations that can make them of limited use in post-production:ġ. Movie files, such as AVIs, Quicktimes, REDcode R3D, MP4s, MTS, and M2Ts, etc) can be convenient due to their simplicity (a single file copied directly from the camera) and small size.