  
 Effective August 2008, these products are owned by Red Giant Software. The company plans to re-release them as free plugins later this year. You can get the pre-Red Giant installers by contacting the company at sales@redgiantsoftware.com or going to this Support page. Red Giant will also handle any technical questions you may have. 64-bit Lossless Codec
Microcosm is the world's first lossless 64-bit RGBA QuickTime file format. Utilizing Theory LLC's revolutionary technology, Microcosm crushes 64-bit or 32-bit files into a fraction of their uncompressed size without losing any image quality.
Stu Maschwitz, co-founder and CTO of The Orphanage, says, "The Orphanage is committed to delivering the highest quality work for our clients. To this end we keep our work uncompressed 32- or 64-bit RGBA throughout the entire production process. Microcosm has proven to be the most effective and efficient 64-bit file format available."
Small and Packed
Desktop applications like Adobe After Effects, Apple's Final Cut Pro, and Pinnacle's Commotion have changed the way we work with moving images. The big problem on the desktop, however, is that you need to jump back and forth between these different applications to produce a final result. Each jump requires a render to either an image sequence or a QuickTime movie.
Microcosm is designed to be used as an intermediate codec to go between applications during workflow. It will optimize your footage to save drive space, averaging over 6:1, while maintaining perfect image quality.
32-bit RGBA D1
720x486 35mm Source.
QuickTime None = 98.7 mb
QuickTime Animation = 53.7 mb
Maya IFF sequence = 54.1 mb
Microcosm 64-bit QuickTime = 10.8 mb
(9:1 lossless compression)
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