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Axel Mertes
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Hi Chris,
I understand your point about Quicktime, but as some pointed out - not everybody has Quicktime on his systems nor is nurd enough to install it. And I understood RED Relay not only as exchange platform for RED ONE owners (hey, those don't need that after all, they can create footage their own...). I understood it to be interesting for 2 parties:
1. Those who ordered a RED and still don't have it.
2. Those who do not own or will not own a RED, but aim to use one or let use one in productions.
I don't argue on WMV and DIVX, both somehow platform bound formats too, still.
After re-thinking the situation I have to clearly underline that Claus is completely right with the choice of Flash H.264 codec for simple reasons:
1. You don't need to install Quicktime!
2. It performs install - if required - from the website itself, way easier for non-nurds. Very transparent.
3. I've yet to see gamma shifts from the Flash player (THAT counts).
But I need to send one info into Claus direction:
Its nice that you put in that info. And surely it wasn't easy task to download all that footage and then transcode to the new codec and finally publish it.
BUT
When I published material from our movie teaser on any websites in the Internet, I did so on behalf of my company and related people, having direct access to the right owners of all this and doing it in their best interest.
You have essentially no right to process this material any further, nor to publish it without any written allowance to do so! As long as we make the decision where to upload this material, its up to us and therefor under control. If poeple start to do what they want with copying and spreading the data, its clear it gets out of control.
That being said I'd say thanks for pointing us to Flash H.264 codec and for your clearly honest aims. I encourage you to ask people for allowance BEFORE copying their movies. I assume others may feel the same way about this.
Anyhow, thanks also to Chris for RED Relay, which made all this possible to spread for now (we thought its a better place than our own website, as its a place watched more often from RED users for now, to whom this material was aimed this time).
Thanks and heads up all around!
Axel
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