This has been the role of CineForm even before its acquisition by GoPro in 2011. The CineForm compression format was designed for speed on personal computers, so it could bridge the gap between a cutting-edge camera and the existing computer hardware that needed to present the images. CineForm has stayed well ahead of the video standards which take a long time to arrive in hardware, from our laptops to our smartphones. For the upcoming Fusion, just like with Omni, the video is stitched after capture using CineForm to hold more than today's standards can deliver.
Since it is so clearly evident that CineForm is crucial to advancing 360° imaging, GoPro is open-sourcing it to help third-party software developers accelerate high-resolution 360 and future workflows. Eventually, video standards will be the road in which high-resolution consumer 360 cameras will run, but today, where we're going…we don't need roads.

Cineform codec is based on Quicktime, no matter Windows or MAC OS. Especially only Quicktime7 support Cineform RAW real-time sync without rendering, NOT Quicktime X. For windows platform and no matter taking Cineform as a core in post or transcoding to ProRes via Kinestation, you need to install Quicktime7. GoPro Cineform Last, but not least, is a sample of GoPro’s Cineform codec processed through Adobe Media Encoder. The one odd thing about this implementation is that there are no controls to set bitrate. The calculate bitrate is 235Mbps which makes this a less fair comparison; it puts Cineform closer to Apple ProRes4444 and Avid DNxHD 220. CineForm Intermediate is an open source (from October 2017) video codec developed for CineForm Inc by David Taylor, David Newman and Brian Schunck. On March 30, 2011, the company was acquired by GoPro which in particular wanted to use the 3D film capabilities of the CineForm 444 Codec for its 3D HERO System.

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You can join the CineForm open source effort at https://gopro.github.io/cineform-sdk/