jpeg2000

A little birdie told me that jepg2000 was the prefered codec for digital cinema. Apparently major film productions also are starting to use jpeg2000 as well (for the final output) as an alternative to creating inter-negative and inter-positive prints.

Is that too weird of a codec, would buyers be scared of it? Is it really better? Any opinions on it.

Who makes it? Like apple makes .mov... never heard of this format. (which means nothing with my small sense of codec knowledge)

Its still a mov file its just jpeg2000 instead of photojpeg or motionjpeg

Man I've been hoping for a jpeg2000 breakthrough for like a decade. It's basically PNG with a few added features. It was supposed to be the revolution of internet graphics, but bandwidth became affordable before the standard was adopted by Netscape (anyone remember those?).

As for customer acceptibility... No idea. Should be no more weird than PNG or animation, I guess, but the mainstream web designer might be alienated. (If he even notices that something is different, that is. ;-) )

Its available in Vegas Studio Platinum 9. Its slower to encode than H264.

Any idea whether Platinum 9 is classed as an upgrade to Platinum 8 from the point of view of downloading and installing it, or is it classed as a new product?

Paul.