Raw MPEG upload

Hi all,

I have an extensive collection of stock footage directly captured from an HDV Z7 camera. The file format is MPEG and it's 1080/50i format. Other libraries just let me upload this... when will Pond5? I don't have the time to convert all to JPEG/Motion etc. Will this be an option in future?

Who is accepting RAW MPEG? Most or all that I know of want motion or Photo conversions. MPEG would be great as the file size is 4-5 times smaller than the JPEG conversion.

Don

alwayshd.com - and there submission guidelines make sense.... "To assure that there is minimal compression loss and/or generational quality, the contributing cinematographers send footage to AlwaysHD in its “capture format.“ Thus, if footage is shot. The goal is to receive the highest quality footage possible so that we can pass that quality along to our buyers."

Boy that would be nice.. send some mt2 files, no loss, no sweat - I think someone simply followed the leader and never questioned the quality. The leader being Apple, the quality being quicktime (which sucks) and the compression causing everything from colorloss to pixelization. Then when you shrink it for the web to show in a player it loses even more - I get more out of making previews for mpeg4, and keeping the original raws anyday. I expirimented with the youtube player and always send them mpeg4, never .mov. It is so much clearer and the conversion is a snap - literally a few minutes as opposed to up to hours. Same with Revver.

This is coming very soon guys, along with other camera-native formats (DVCPRO HD etc).

Outstanding ... hurry I've lots of tapes I busy converting now.
Thanks for the improvements.

Don

Shedli,
Do you mean I can upload Mpeg2 instead of .Mov. That is great news, MOV is simply TOO big.

.MOV is a http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_container, not a http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codec. MPEG2, PhotoJPEG, etc are all codecs. AVI, MOV, WMV, etc are all container formats.

We haven't determined whether we will do non-MOV formats, but we will definitely be allowing camera-native compression, so uploads will be smaller for footage that is sourced in a highly compressed format like HDV.

Stay tuned for more details.

Thanks Shedli,
My video clips are all from Canon HV20 mpeg2 format. After converting my clips to .MOV, it will be 4 times bigger than my original mpeg 2 format. So is the 4 times upload time.

Any news on this? Expected date?