CineForm Goes Open Source. 16 years is a long time for a piece of software to remain useful. The CineForm codec, initially developed in 2001, was designed to enable real-time consumer video editing. Was a team of engineers that knew image and video processing, but very little about codec design (which likely helped.). I would be surprised if GoPro would have used embedded LUTs. They used Cineform not as capture but as intermediate format with GoPro Studio, as far as I can remember. I cannot see a good reason for LUTs in Cineform with GoPro Studio, because it limits the usability of that kind of intermediates to a handful of applications, if any.
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Ah....thanks...I get some comfort (not a lot) that you cant't get Sony Vegas to play it too. As you probably know, the Cineform codec was bought by GoPro. I am using a GoPro product called the GoPro Player (beta Windows version). This program takes 360 files REFRAMED and churns them as either H.264 or H.265 or Cineform. I was hoping to edit the Cineform version in Vegas but I think I'll settle on H.264 for editing (I know, ugh) because I do not want to use another editor. I save the files as 4K, H.264, then edit in Vegas and I always output 1080p.
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These Cineform video files play fine in Premiere but I want to use Vegas. GoPro has to have some alliance with Adobe because they push using there products with Adobe Premiere. Nothing about Vegas. I think Vegas is so much quicker and easier than Premiere. I could re encode the Cineform files in Premiere as DNxHR. Vegas will import that but that is a pain in the butt because next month I plan to shoot a lot of video and that would take up too much time and space. I'm really tempted to just edit the H.264s. H.265 is too slow. I am in contact with one of the developers of the beta GoPro PLayer Program and he tells me in a future release that there will be bit rate choices for encoding H.264 and 5. I have done testing and I can't really see any meaningful degradation till about the 4th generation. This is at 400% zoom in and at the current fixed 70 mb/s encode rate.
That Cineform file you have will play in Media Player Classic and VLC also. It doesn't play in Microsoft's Media Player.
I don't know now if anything at all can be done now to get it to import into Vegas???? These video files are taken by the GoPro Max - 360 camera - and the re framed video is produced with the GoPro Player (really a simple editor).
Thanks again.
Steve
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These Cineform video files play fine in Premiere but I want to use Vegas. GoPro has to have some alliance with Adobe because they push using there products with Adobe Premiere. Nothing about Vegas. I think Vegas is so much quicker and easier than Premiere. I could re encode the Cineform files in Premiere as DNxHR. Vegas will import that but that is a pain in the butt because next month I plan to shoot a lot of video and that would take up too much time and space. I'm really tempted to just edit the H.264s. H.265 is too slow. I am in contact with one of the developers of the beta GoPro PLayer Program and he tells me in a future release that there will be bit rate choices for encoding H.264 and 5. I have done testing and I can't really see any meaningful degradation till about the 4th generation. This is at 400% zoom in and at the current fixed 70 mb/s encode rate.
That Cineform file you have will play in Media Player Classic and VLC also. It doesn't play in Microsoft's Media Player.
I don't know now if anything at all can be done now to get it to import into Vegas???? These video files are taken by the GoPro Max - 360 camera - and the re framed video is produced with the GoPro Player (really a simple editor).
Thanks again.
Steve