Would new 1080p content be useful?

[photoguy123]

Would it be useful to have uncompressed 1080p content for testing and/or development purposes?

The content is 30 second clips of 3d animation, and most have moving backgrounds and a fair amount of motion.

If it can be of benefit to the community I can make the uncompressed footage available and host it on a fast server.

You can take a look at the web versions here:
www.lightfactorycards.com (http://www.lightfactorycards.com)

(ps - don't bother to send an e-card, development is still underway...in fact the site is not announced yet)

regards,
pg

[Inventive Software]

:readrule: Rule 8: Don't double-post! Tsk tsk.

[photoguy123]

:readrule: Rule 8: Don't double-post! Tsk tsk.

I don't think the spririt of the rules were broken. Believe me there is no secret agenda to make more people read a post giving away free tools and bandwidth.

Someone kindly pointed out that the original post was not in the right area, so I tried to place it in the area he suggested as most proper.

regards,
pg

[Inventive Software]

In that case, PM'ing a moderator will get the thread moved. Starting a new one isn't the way to do it.

[Clown shoes]

I would definately appreciate uncompressed 1080p source footage to test. Keep us posted.

Cheers

[photoguy123]

I would definately appreciate uncompressed 1080p source footage to test. Keep us posted.
Cheers

Ok giddy up then:
http://www.lightfactorycards.com/video-1080p.aspx

As far as I know this is the first commercial content made available in this form. It's so fun not working for the man...

If you've heard of other companies doing it please ping me so we can cross link.

regards,
pg

[DDogg]

photoguy123, very much appreciate the excellent test sources as well as the outstanding bandwidth you have made available. Also, good luck on your endeavor.

Note: Extracted ok with 7-Zip Manager.

[photoguy123]

photoguy123, very much appreciate the excellent test sources as well as the outstanding bandwidth you have made available. Also, good luck on your endeavor.

Note: Extracted ok with 7-Zip Manager.

thanks DDogg - glad it's working ok.

pg -

[drmpeg]

What is the intended frame rate of these clips?

Ron

[photoguy123]

What is the intended frame rate of these clips?

Ron

Hi Ron, the framerate is 30fps.

Non-essential background info:
Changing to 60fps is easy for us since during a re-render the animation would automatically take advantage of the extra temporal bandwidth.

However after watching test clips of both it seems that for our type of material (not sports like) the quality improvement wasn't significant.

More over as is, each clip takes a day to render using about 100 computers in a render-farm. So we aren't keen to change it unless there's a nice benefit :)

regards,
pg

[Mug Funky]

if you want extra frames or motion blur there's always avisynth + mvtools... could be a very big timesaver.

[Pookie]

photoguy123 - Thank you very much for the file and the bandwidth. I'm going to use it to visually compare the effects of different filters and codecs. What better than uncompressed AVI? You rock :)

[708145]

What better than uncompressed AVI?

huffyuv or AVC lossless
I agree about the "you rock" part though :)

[Inventive Software]

Amazing. I had no idea you guys would actually do this. I'm planning a codec test in the near future, and your material is gonna be used for sure. :)

[Pookie]

Compressed File Sizes

Life.Avi 5,132,186,996 Uncompressed
Life.Avi 3,200,378,880 Huffyuv
Life.Avi 2,424,746,560 Lagarith

[photoguy123]

I'm very glad it will be useful.

I don't see why big companies don't do it - What would it hurt to give out 30 seconds of an old HD Lost episode?

Then again I love AVISynth and consider it at least as valuable as any big company tools, so that's the way it goes i guess.

cheers

[Skelsgard]

Told you, man ;)
There´s a lot of ppl really interested in what you got.
Good to see this topic is getting the attention it deserved (i´ll give you thumbs up but there´s no such emoticon :D )

Downloading Life.avi right now. I´m really looking forward to test advanced H.264 compressions.

What would it hurt to give out 30 seconds of an old HD Lost episode?
Wish everybody in the TV/movie bizz would think like you, but of course, that would go against their religion (where they worship the mighty dollar) and they can´t understand how much the ppl that works to create better and faster codecs are NOT against them :( nor trying to improve piracy.

See ya, man.

[ca197]

The Elephants dream boys and girls host an uncompressed 1080p version of their short animation as well. I think there is even a torrent :-)

http://orange.blender.org/
http://media.xiph.org/ED/

C

[drmpeg]

Here's the three clips encoded in MPEG-2 (with a real-time hardware encoder) at 25 Mbps average, 37 Mbps peak (in a 40 Mbps Transport Stream).

http://www.w6rz.net/1080p30.zip

308,528,945 bytes

Ron