The Tiliam Blog

The first digital video standard, ITU-R BT.601, was published in 1982. After more than three decades of working with digital video formats people are still asking the question which format to use and when you should use it. Everyone wants video that can play anywhere, is high quality and has small file size.

When developing software it’s important to carry out proper testing.

4K is firmly on the roadmap for all video makers and content creators. It is not a question of if but a question of when and how. 4K is not a new technology; it’s been around for years and has already been used for several feature films. At IBC 2013 a live Rugby match was broadcast and shown as a demonstration. At Wimbledon 2013, the BBC and Sony trialled 4K. In August 2013, BSkyB performed a 4K satellite test transmission linked from an outside broadcast.

After testing MotionBend 1.3.6 on the Mavericks developer preview the only thing we could find wrong with it was that a slightly different font was being used. Now that the final version of Mavericks has been publicly released we have made a fix for the font change and now MotionBend is fully ready for work.

You might be forgiven for thinking that no one uses interlaced video any more: a large percentage of the world has already switched from CRT to display technologies such as LCD or Plasma. However, a lot of productions still use interlaced video, in particular live TV. Most video cameras on the market today still have interlaced video modes. H.265/HEVC was designed for progressive scan but you can still encode fields with it. Interlacing is alive and well and will probably be around for a little while longer at least.