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SUPPORTED FILE FORMATS

Cine (*.cine)

Advantage:

The Cine format is a Vision Research proprietary file format very similar to the Cine RAW format

except that the colors are interpolated and every pixel holds all three color components RGB. It

will store 8 or 16-bit images. The playback speeds are faster than Cine RAW because the colors

are already interpolated.

Disadvantage:

It is usually about three times the size of Cine RAW file and takes a bit longer to save.

Cine JPEG (*.cci)

Advantage:

The Cine JPEG format uses a lossy compression routine to compress the images from the cine

file while retaining the timing and other information within the file. It will store only 8 bit images. It

results in the smallest file size but there is a loss in the image quality, depending on the quality

factor you chose at save.

Disadvantage:

It takes a bit more time to save the cine file as the JPEG compression is performed. Not all third

party software analysis packages will work with this format, image is altered and some details

can be lost.

Cine RAW (*.cine)

Advantage:

The Cine RAW format is a Vision Research proprietary file format that has all the settings and

timing information stored within the file. It will store 8 or 16-bit images. The images stored on 16

bits can have a smaller number of used bits: 10, 12 or 14. The images are saved as read from a

sensor and the format is very compact. The save time is the best of all the formats offered in the

Phantom application. Cine RAW files are uninterpolated, every pixel stores information about one

color.

Disadvantage:

Each image needs to be interpolated on the fly during playback, that is, the missing two colors

are computed by interpolating the neighbor colors, so the playback speed is slightly slower than

some of the other formats and is dependent on the configuration of your computer system.