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Quicktime alternatives

What are some good QT alternatives that Deadline or Draft can output? Is there a way to render out .mkv files?

I had to ask Julie on this one. Your only other container option is Avid’s MXF for now. We went and added MKV to the wishlist though.

Hi there,

I was too quick in giving my answer to Edwin. I just tried to actually encode a movie using a MKV container and it worked just fine. Basically, I believe that Draft will supports any container that FFmpeg supports.

I’m very sorry for the confusion!

Julie

Cool thanks all. I’ll start looking at this internally. Maybe this will also give us a good 4K option. :slight_smile:

I was curious if there were any significant updates to Draft that would allows for mkv file output?

I just checked the code base and didn’t find anything for Matroska containers. I’m a bit surprised that ask doesn’t come up more often in the industry.

I’ll add it as an official ask, but it’ll likely be awhile.

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