convert PAL DV AVI to PAL DV MOV quickly?

[Russell Lasson]

Flip4Mac (the free QuickTime plugin) will allow you to playback some windows based codecs on your mac. With FCP6, you might be able to just use the DV AVI files as is without convert them to something more mac friendly.

As for the MPEG-2 stuff, I’m not familiar with how matrox uses mpeg-2. I don’t like working with MPEG-2 files so I convert them to something more edit friendly using MPEG StreamClip (free app).

Hope that helps. As for my sanity, I visit Chick-fil-A each Sunday to pay my respects to the loss of some poor helpless chicken.

-Russ

[Mark Palmos]

Thanks Russ, i will get that flip thing for sure.

Matrox MPEG2 i-frame is in an AVI wrapper… a pretty good codec, better quality than DV for the same file size, and scaleable. Its not like DVD flavour MPEG2 which is not very good for editing.

excellent that you are paying your poultry dues on a weekly basis.

till later, thanks
Mark.