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Capturing in AVI
Hey, I’m sure this problem has a simple solution, but I can’t for the life of me figure it out. 🙁
When I capture video from my Canon GL2 into Final Cut Pro 4; it captures the video in MOV format. I want the video in AVI however. Where do I go to fix this problem?!?!?
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4 Replies
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Get Premiere Pro….and a PC.
FCP only does Quicktime MOVs.
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Really now?! Well I thought that MOV files were significantly lesser in quality than AVI files. Is there nothing I can do to improve the quality? And if not, will the quality be affected when I print the video back to tape? (I’m sorry, I must seem terribly amateurish at this.) Please help.
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As I understand it, .AVI and .MOV (Quicktime) are simply wrappers put around DV video. If you have downloaded .MOV’s off the net, they all play back using Quicktime, even though the “video” contained within that .MOV file may have vastly different frame rates, resolutions, originating formats, etc. It’s still DV under the wrapper, and since neither format alters the DV video, but rather just refers to it in different ways, there should be no quality difference. Having said that, I feel that Quicktime is the best computer/video handler out there (and since this is a Final Cut Pro forum, I’m not likely to be contradicted!).
TV is called a medium, because it is neither rare, nor well done (He..he…)
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Close Kelly. MOVs and AVIs are wrappers that are put around VIDEO files, not just DV. AVI and MOV can be uncompressed SD and HD as well.
All it really means is a format to work with. PCs use AVI, Macs use MOVs..(.Avid uses OMFI) Both are high quality.
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