AVI in FCP

[David Bogie]

Only if you have the AVI codec on your Macintosh. AVI had hundreds of PC-only codecs and hardly any of them were ever ported to Macintosh.

short answer: not likely but the only way you’re oging to know is to try it since there are too many variables.

bogiesan

This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”

[Max Frank]

Thanks a lot.

One more question: If I convert that DV PAL AVI to a DV PAL .Mov, can I expect a loss of quality? And if so, is it significant?

W

[David Bogie]

Sorry, I couldn’t tell you without knowing the parameters of the AVI file, pixel size, color space. codec, etc.

DV is a standardized format. AVI and QT are just architectures or wrappers for a huge variety of file types.

bogiesan

This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”

[Sean Oneil]

[Wayne K.] ”
One more question: If I convert that DV PAL AVI to a DV PAL .Mov, can I expect a loss of quality? And if so, is it significant?”

Yes, you will lose quality unless you use the right tool to do the conversion. Doing it in FCP, Quicktime Pro, or basically almost any program in existense will re-encode the video stream, causing quality loss.

To do it right, this is what you need:
https://www.firestore.com/solutions/catalog.asp?id=8

This will do exactly what you want. It will convert an AVI-wrapped DV file into an MOV-wrapped DV file, without any re-compression.

Sean

[Max Frank]

Thanks so much for the heads-up.

Wayne

[Max Frank]

Thanks so much for the heads-up.

Wayne