Motionjpeg

Just had a time lapse from my Panasonic X920 rejected curator reason I quote "unfortunately we no longer accept motionjpeg codec clips". Since when I have not seen any communication, cameras that stitch images together in camera are interlaced and so motionjpeg.

hahah ya, seems silly. especially when all editors today can handle any footage thrown at them and make them comply with one another.

Are you going to go back and re export as pjpg? why did you make it mjpg in first place?

I have always rendered interlaced as motionjpeg but not in the future. I had a template set up for my X920 time lapse as it is interlaced.

With more and more video being put on the web, interlaced is dated and not needed anymore.

interesting, several of my best selling clips are motionjpg (fighting bears)

My point is this change from P5 was never communicated to the producers, you find out when your clip is rejected, another 45 minutes of wasted upload, don't we deserve better communication to changes in policy.

agree with you Normstock. they should announce changes like this.
i do not understand why it is rejected. producers still use interlaced materials. did recently a direct sale to a wildlife program which will be broadcasted at national georaphic channel. asked them if they wanted the material deinterlaced but they insisted to get it interlaced!

I like to be smug and irritating...

But thanks for calling me confident.

Interlaced footage still sells well here. So great quality tape cameras are a NO but cheap small sensor and pin hole lenses of cell phones are acceptable. Come-on, doesn't make sense. If P5 deleted all the MJPEG footage here they would loose several hundred thousand great clips probably. That means cameras like Canon XH-A1 which still is a quality camera can't be used but GoPro footage is acceptable. Hummmmm ... is that the official P5 answer having one artists work rejected??

Just like we need a list of don't shoot subjects we need to be advised of cameras that are no longer acceptable. Not buried in the FAQ since most or maybe all old heads never go back to that. Interlaced has been dated by all the digital cameras but not needed, no I don't think so. Maybe interlaced ducks in the pond ;)

I have time lapse of ducks in a pond, I made it interlaced to sell more. It is my #1 seller.

Back to the topic at hand, I don't think there should be a list of codecs or subjects to shoot... if a video is good then the buyer will buy. Good can be anything, people need all sorts of video, and all interlaced can easily be deinterlaced. it's the same thing you would have done back when you originally edited was to export as deinterlaced...so wheres the problem?