We are also still licensing the codec via our SDK (software development kit) to third parties for use in their products. GoPro App for Desktop includes the latest version of the GoPro CineForm codec and we are still making changes and updates to the codec. You DO still need to have either NeoScene or GoPro App installed in order to use the codec outside of Adobe product though.Īnd yes, our 'sold' products are going away because we now include the Codec in our free products.

Additionally, Adobe includes CineForm as their house codec in their Creative Suite. One of only 5 codecs that they have done this for.

SMPTE the society of motion picture and television engineers) has standardized the cineform codec as an industry standard. It seems my understanding that CineForm is slowly becoming extinct, was misinformed, or misunderstood. I was just about to post the reply I got from GoPro (CineForm) regarding my question to their support team (similar to the question I posted here). I'm using Windows 8.1 64-bit, editing on Premiere Pro CC. Should I convert them to a more standard codec? And if so, which codec/format, and is there a lossless way of doing that? Should I keep them as-is, assuming that CFHD will be accessible and supported for the long-haul? which got me wondering if it would be safe to keep my video files encoded as CFHD.Īnyways - long-story-short - what to do with these CFHD AVI files? I started researching what to do, but decided not to bother, since it seemed at that point, that Adobe Premiere Pro works fine with the native files taken on the Canon 5D without having to convert to an intermediate codec.Īlso, it looks like CineForm (which is now GoPro) has stopped supporting NeoScene among several other CineForm products. When I tried to install NeoScene on my new computer, it said something about deactivating the copy on the older laptop, which had died. The files are CFHD AVI files and since installing CineForm, I moved on to a new computer. Time has passed and I am now revisiting some material I shot years ago. So I went ahead and purchased NeoScene, a product by CineForm, and converted the files to a CFHD codec. Back in 2010, I was shooting HD video on my Canon 5D mark ii and then realized I would have to convert the files captured on the 5D to an intermediate file format in order to edit them in editing software such as Sony Vegas or Adobe Premiere.

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