Pixspan Support

Flame Premium supports Pixspan compression, when importing and exporting media.

Pixspan is a lossless compression algorithm that preserves the original media container and metadata while compressing the original media file.

Pixspan version 2.0 enables the following formats to be decoded on import and encoded on export:

• DPX
• Cineon
• EXR (Uncompressed only)
• TIFF (Uncompressed only)

Pixspan 2.0 enables the following formats to be decoded on import:

• Pixspan encoded ARRIRAW media files

It is also possible to export content with the Link To Original Media option, to avoid duplicating media files on the destination file system. Compressed Intermediates with Pixspan compression is not supported.

Files encoded with Pixspan compression have a double extension: the original extension, plus “.pxz” (ex. dpx.pxz).

The Pixspan plugin is included with the application and supports encoding, out of the box. If you want to use Pixspan for decoding as well, you will have to properly license the plugin.

Files exported through Pixspan generate thumbnails when encoded using Autodesk products. These thumbnails can be seen under the Mac OS X Finder, making media browsing easier. This requires an OS X QuickTime component available from Pixspan.

For more information on Pixspan, visit: http://pixspan.com.