Badaboom seems to me having a very interesting basic apptoach.
But there is a major feature missing to make it usefull for semi an professionals ! All of those videoeditors who want to use ths highspeedtranscoder for exporting ,generating their material for distribution are desperately missing the ability to have a common fileformat which can be used lossless and without of further timeconsuming transcoding ,for exporting from the editing appliction and importing it to badaboom !!
All Avid users normaly use quicktime as a container with the Quicktime-reference option wich takes nearly no additional time , and references to the original material without trancoding it . This is readable be every standard quicktime compatible application.
FinalCutPro users also only have the ability to export their edited timeline to a quicktime movie. Here the most usefull codec (to bring to a PC) seems the lossles/Animation or AVID-DNxHD Codec . Unfortunately the Apple ProRes and Intermediate are not available for PCs .
In this case it is for all of them necessary to have the option to use QUICKTIME as an Importformat in Badaboom!!!
Everything else (WMV , AVI ...) is pointless because it takes an extreme amount of time and doesn't make quality better becausse of the recompression. In this case it's better to use the export from the editingsystem directly - no badaboom needed .
So my question is: Will badaboom have the quicktime import functionality in the nearest future?
Else it will be only a product for consumers transcoding and ripping dvd's or internet videos.




Editorial requirements
Let me join megac on this topic. As an assistant editor I get a lot of requests for exports into various formats from producers, directors, dops, etc... and in most cases they want the export RIGHT NOW... Badaboom would become an instant hit in editorials by simply supporting AVID QT codecs on input (both SD and HD) and allowing batch processing with the posibility to save output presets. For now we all have to stick with ProCoder, Sorenson Squeeze, etc...but having Badaboom with its speed would save us a lot of time...
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Jakub Olexa
Xland. CZ, spol. s r.o.
http://www.xland.cz
Re: Quicktime Import neeeded for editors
First, you are correct to say that Badaboom is a product for consumer transcoding--that is one of our main goals. We do appreciate your suggestion and Badaboom will support additional inputs in future versions (1.1, 1.2, etc...).