What video format does Focus work with?
The point of focus is to be able to tag information to a specific point in a video sequence (these are the events in a Focus project). Focus can then seek back to that exact point when required. Different video formats make it harder or easier to randomly seek to an arbitrary point in the video. With a format such as Digital Video (DV), accessing individual frames is easy and fast. With a highly compressed format accessing individual frames is harder and slower. The result is that jumping about in the video is much smoother with some files types than others. In general the more highly compressed the video, the less responsive Focus will appear when moving to random points in the video, although this will vary from format to format and depends on the compression parameters used when the video was encoded. Straight playback from start to finish of the video should appear as expected, regardless of the format. Focus works with most varieties of AVI files, MPEG, ASF and DIVX files. As a ro
