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Mpeg4 to anything!?
Hi,
I’m teaching some basic video editing to my students using digital cameras and their inbuilt movie features…while the video is lower res…it is great for teaching with and keeping file sizes down etc.
The Canon works fine…but the Olympus creates mpeg 4 clips…
does anyone know a way of turning these mpeg 4 files into something a video editing app (Premiere or Windows Movie Maker) will actually read….neither will currently open them…
Thanks.
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Premiere wasn’t designed to natively edit MPEG material. However, through the use of a plug-ins or an external software convertor it can be achieved.
The follwing link will take you to the Xilisoft home page where a multi-format convertor is available. Fellow Cow’s here will be able to point to several others too.
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[Mav777] “but the Olympus creates mpeg 4 clips”
Which Olympus cams are you using? Most of the ones I reviewed did Quicktime Motion jpeg, or Quicktime MOV.
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Try playing the video from the camera via its analog out cable to an analog/digital converter or a camcorder that has pass-thru feature and capture as DV.
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That would work But! depending on the framerate and frame size you might end up with fuvideo, the cd that comes with most Olympus cams has quicktime included, and for $29 you can change it to QTpro and edit/transcode the video a bit better.
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Thanks for tips..the camera has a Quicktime option..I wanted to ‘rescue’ mpeg 4 footage that the Olympus c-770 had already taken…
My next big question:
Does anyone know if Sony Digital cameras (particularly Sony DSC-P93) take a compatible video format with Windows Movie maker or Premiere? (We can get some of these for free for our school through a promotion.)http://www.dpreview.com says it takes:
MPEG VX (VGA, 16/30 fps, unlimited)I’ve never heard of MPEG VX! Is this another format that requires re conversion?
The other option we have is to use more of our promotion points on a SONY DVD Handycam..would this be an easier option? Again I don’t know what sort of file format these type of cameras use.
As I mentioned..the Canon we already have is incredibly simply…kids just download clips..and then import them directly…when you’re working with 50 odd Grade 5 kids..simplicity is your friend!
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[Mav777] “the camera has a Quicktime option..I wanted to ‘rescue’ mpeg 4 footage that the Olympus c-770 had already taken…”
Quicktime Pro will work with Mpeg4, just download it into the computer, edit it in QT or use QT to convert it to a AVI format your NLE can use, or as Mike mentioned take the A/V out of the cam and play it into a DV camcorder and record it then load the video into a computer using firewire and use the NLE of your choice, the Mpeg4 is 30 frames per second in the 640 x 480 SHQ mode so the quality should be at least VHS.[Mav777] “The other option we have is to use more of our promotion points on a SONY DVD Handycam..would this be an easier option? Again I don’t know what sort of file format these type of cameras use”
The DVD camcorders use minidiscs that play in settop players or can be loaded into a computer, the software that Sony bundles with the cams can be problematical, if you can use your points towards a MiniDV camcorder it would simplify things. -
fuvideo is all that I have seen from still cams, usually caused by wierd frame rates, like 17 fps!
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Usually the Video from still cams is for emailing and internet use, not for editing in a higher quality format, on a computer it doesn’t look too bad, Like Olympus QT mov is 640×480 at 15fps in the HQ mode, the Mpeg4 like his cam uses, also some other models is 640×480 at 30fps, so its not too bad in its native format, but since its a highly compressed delivery format there is a quality loss when converting.
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You can use the free Windows Media Encoder
https://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/9series/encoder/default.aspx
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