Faster/lower-quality MOV export option

[Andrew Baldwin]

In some cases, CPU demosaicing may be overkill for MOV exports, and a much faster GPU-based demosaicing would be good enough

Examples: proxies, dailies...

[Former user]

In my opinion, having a stable front-end for MLV work is highly required for professional applications. Hopping between different solutions (mlv -> dng, dng->tiff, tiff -> prores4444) is too much of a drag. At the moment, my only solution for an accelerated workflow is utilizing DaVinci Resolve with its GPU/CUDA/OpenCL-based debayering, which, while not being on par with ACR exports, produces satisfactory results within a certain timeframe that are clearly superior to any h264 recording my 5D3 produces. MlRawViewer, being multi-platform and an established piece of software in the ML universe, would be the perfect lightweight tool for such processes.

[Riccardo Cremona]

I think that in a real world editing situation you need the proxy MOVs asap to start editing quickly. An option to quickly generate a LT or custom proxy .mov + a batch list to export such proxies and cdng at the same time in separate subfolders would be great.

[Former user]

Riccardo, even though you're right and proxy creation is also required for a pro workflow, I was not thinking about proxies when I wrote my comment. Almost all of the time when I have clips to debayer I go the Resolve route these days. On the one side it's batch plus audio sync, on the other side it doesn't take forever like ACR. I do agree that the quality might not be on par with ACR, but still the Prores4444 / 422 files I get (dependent on the use) are on par with whatever the C300 spits out, so it's fine for me. Might get even better when Cinelog release their profile for Resolve. Still, having a lightweight application to handle those tasks on location like MlRawViewer is essential, and getting results equally fast or faster than Resolve would be the icing on the cake.