Team GoPro recently announced the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE) has finally adopted their CineForm Codec and compression standard. This becomes their new VC-5 open codec for video and post-production. CineForm VC-5 will now drive the SMPTE standard for high resolution imagery with a high speed, low-compute intensive workflow.
David Newman, senior director of software engineering for GoPro, was quoted saying, “SMPTE standardization of the GoPro CineForm codec as the new VC-5 standard is big news for the entire production and post production industry, as well as for GoPro and its customers. By further developing the VC-5 standard, we are building a new ecosystem for the industry in which we’re enabling cinema-level acquisition quality, while also providing cinematographers the workflow technology to finish their films. We are standardizing core codec technologies, and making them extensible to even support future camera formats and future post production workflows. This is a major milestone and a huge accomplishment for GoPro.”
Users can download VC-5 directly from the SMPTE Website here.
Source: Doddle.me