Pixspan Support

Lustre supports Pixspan 3 compression, when importing and exporting media.

Pixspan is a lossless compression algorithm that preserves the original media container and metadata while compressing the original media file.

Pixspan enables the following formats to be decoded on import and encoded on export:

Pixspan enables the following formats to be decoded on import:

It is also possible to export content with the Link To Original Media option, to avoid duplicating media files on the destination file system. Compressed Intermediates with Pixspan compression is not supported.

Files encoded with Pixspan compression have a double extension: the original extension, plus “.pxz” (ex. dpx.pxz).

The Pixspan plugin is included with the application and supports decoding, out of the box. If you want to use Pixspan for encoding as well, you will have to properly license the plugin.

Files exported through Pixspan generate thumbnails when encoded using Autodesk products. These thumbnails can be seen under the Mac OS X Finder, making media browsing easier. This requires a Mac OS X QuickTime component available from Pixspan.

Note: The Pixspan license server must run on Mac OS X or Red Hat Linux: it does not support CentOS.

For more information on Pixspan, visit: http://pixspan.com.