Video Support

Work in Progress

Suggestion

rogerio

Ability to import and color directly on video files.
Exporting video would also be nice but is not an immediate requirement.
Video trimming, cutting, cropping and rotating would be awesome to have directly in the app down the line.

a year ago

Jan, 24

monokee

Update (July 2024)

Video preview and export is kind of working on some platforms. Here are the details:

Basic Video Encoding support in Google Chrome and Chromium based browsers like Edge.
Audio Encoding works by default in Chromium based browsers. Super basic, needs testing and feedback iterations.
Unreliable / buggy in Safari on macOS and iOS due to Webkit bug
No Firefox support. Firefox is lacking the basic browser APIs required for encoding although these are currently being worked on.

Supported formats:

Import: WebM or MP4 / MOV with H264 encoding
Export: MP4 with H264 encoding

Known Issues

No Audio encoding on iOS and Safari on macOS due to lack of API
Not all MP4 / h264 files can be imported. There are a million ways to encode videos and Color.io only supports what the browser can natively play back - try to open a video with your browser to see if its a bug in Color.io or if the video can not be decoded

6

Videos no longer loading

Videos that worked previoulsy no longer load. Instead I get an error message saying that "No supported source was found" ### Reproduction Steps 1. Launch Color.IO app. 2. *Drag and drop* video into the app 3. Getting error message Failed to load because no supported source was found.

john1580 3 months ago Bug

Roadmap

Audio Encoding: Required APIs are not supported in Safari and Firefox yet.
Additional Codecs: Waiting for upstream browser updates to natively support system codecs for both decoding and encoding. Decoding/Encoding via WASM or ASM.js ports of FFMEG are painfully slow and so memory inefficient that I can not go down that route. To provide extended codec support I'll have to wait for native cross-browser solutions.

9 months ago (edited)

monokee

Merged in a post:

import format

rogerio 1 year ago Question

a year ago

monokee

marked this post as Work in Progress

10 months ago

monokee

Still a lot of work ahead BUT: I got 6K video working super smoothly and will start rolling out support early 2024. 🙀 Stay tuned!!!

10 months ago (edited)

monokee

changed title "~~Import~~ Video ~~(.mp4)~~ "description "Ability to import and color directly on video "

10 months ago

monokee

Update:
Video previews are now working directly in the app. Supported formats:

video/mp4
video/webm

Roadmap:

Enable video export (mp4/webm should be easy, other formats hard, see below)
Allow loading additional formats (hard, waiting for upstream browser support)

9 months ago

monokee

Merged in a post:

can we grade video here

ahamadh 9 months ago Question

9 months ago

monokee

Update (July 2024)

Video preview and export is kind of working on some platforms. Here are the details:

Basic Video Encoding support in Google Chrome and Chromium based browsers like Edge.
Audio Encoding works by default in Chromium based browsers. Super basic, needs testing and feedback iterations.
Unreliable / buggy in Safari on macOS and iOS due to Webkit bug
No Firefox support. Firefox is lacking the basic browser APIs required for encoding although these are currently being worked on.

Supported formats:

Import: WebM or MP4 / MOV with H264 encoding
Export: MP4 with H264 encoding

Known Issues

No Audio encoding on iOS and Safari on macOS due to lack of API
Not all MP4 / h264 files can be imported. There are a million ways to encode videos and Color.io only supports what the browser can natively play back - try to open a video with your browser to see if its a bug in Color.io or if the video can not be decoded

6

Videos no longer loading

Videos that worked previoulsy no longer load. Instead I get an error message saying that "No supported source was found" ### Reproduction Steps 1. Launch Color.IO app. 2. *Drag and drop* video into the app 3. Getting error message Failed to load because no supported source was found.

john1580 3 months ago Bug

Roadmap

Audio Encoding: Required APIs are not supported in Safari and Firefox yet.
Additional Codecs: Waiting for upstream browser updates to natively support system codecs for both decoding and encoding. Decoding/Encoding via WASM or ASM.js ports of FFMEG are painfully slow and so memory inefficient that I can not go down that route. To provide extended codec support I'll have to wait for native cross-browser solutions.

9 months ago (edited)

aaron1674

My video gets stuck at "preparing export" and won't download. Any fix for this?

8 months ago

monokee

@aaron1674 what browser & operating system are you on? Currently only works in Chrome / Chromium based browsers.

8 months ago

aaron1674

@aaron1674 @monokee I'm on mac, but using chrome.

8 months ago

arno

Ahh, I've just noticed that video is just supported as a preview and grain etc. don't get exported. Full video support for export with some of the analog smoothness and all features would be absolutely amazing!!

4 months ago

monokee

@arno actually the grain is being exported but its hardly visible. I had to turn it almost all the way down before encoding because currently, the mp4 encoder that comes with the web platform creates HUGE file sizes when grain is present in the video frames. I'm talking about 10GB for 5 second clips. Safari on macOS and iOS is especially bad. However everything else (grade, halation, bloom, acutance, sharpness etc) is not effected by this and should export just fine.

4 months ago

monokee

Merged in a post:

Add .mov video support

### Feature Request I am noticing a lot of editors sharing their material in mov format instead of mp4. I would like to minimize any risks by converting them if I could just import the mov in color io for look dev and then go back to resolve. ### Use Case Avoid converting material received from DP's or Editors.

andy570 5 months ago Suggestion

4 months ago

sanatana

Video sound is not working

4 months ago

monokee

@sanatana this is expected - there's no audio encoder built in at all right now. I'm probably going to add that relatively soon though!

4 months ago

monokee

@sanatana I added Audio Encoding to the latest build and it should work in Chromium based browsers. In-app playback is still silent at this point but the rendered/encoded video will have sound.

3 months ago

andrei242

Videos coming out with significantly lower fps count. Chrome on Mac. Also just wanted to say thank you for such a great and easy to use tool!

3 months ago

monokee

@andrei242 Thanks Andrei! I wish I had more control over this - please see this ticket and my pinned comment:

Videos drop frames when exporting

I exoprted a few videos and a couple of them have lower frame rate - changed length on one of them to see if the video was too large (it was only around 10 seconds at first anyway) and it didn't make a difference. Not sure if there's something I'm missing here to fix it! I'm using chrome on a HP Envy x360

elaina1704 3 months ago Bug

3 months ago

monokee

@andrei242 potentially fixed in latest beta build: Open Color.io Beta

3 months ago

monokee

Merged in a post:

Glitch when rendering video

### Expected Behaviour ### Reproduction Steps 1.video glitch 2. 3. ### Your Browser and Device

christian1605 2 months ago Bug

2 months ago

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