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.moi files
Hello. I have material from a JVC Everio hard drive camera. The files are compressed on the camera into .moi files. Can I edit these in Premier.
I am mostly familiar with Avid and Final Cut…. Can anyone tell me, in general, if you think the switch will be difficult for me? (If we decide to use Premier.)Thanks!!!
Melissa -
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Hi Mel,
I have a friend who used an Everio camcorder and regretted ever buying it. The footage was in the moi format which can’t be used on a mac, he just bought a mac too. To answer your question tho, no premiere can’t edit the moi files. Neither can the other NLEs you mention. The moi needs to be converted to another format. I used Powerdirector for my friend, but there is no batch rendering – took ages.
I think changing the .moi/.mod ext to mpg helped, but he needed to work on his mac and it wouldn’t work doing that. PC seemed to see it, may have had issues with audio by memory.
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I had my first encounter with moi. files recently as a video production teacher when a student brought in a hard drive camera. As mentioned, we soon discovered that we PP2 does not recognize these files. After some research, I purchased a program called “Movavi Video Converter 5”. I did allow me to batch convert to MPEG. After importing I discovered that the image was distoted vertically (tall & thin). I then used the aspect ratio tool to convert to “wide screen”. That seemed to solve the problem. I should mention that my first attempt at conversion was to AVI but for reason the AVI files that were produced did not work in PP2. Therefore, the choice of MPEG files. I am currently discouraging anybody contemplating a new digital video camera that uses the hard drive format. Good luck
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I have to disagree. Hard Disk Drive cams make it easy to review your footage (w/o rewinding) onsite (just as you would on a digital photo cam), easier access to footage, no hissing sound (from the motor of your MiniDV cam moving the tape)added to your sound track and easiness to transfer the files to the computer, among many other advantages. I agree the formats are uncomfortable because most NLE don
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I think he was talking about the fact that most HD based cameras use consumerish codecs, and so that’s a huge issue for anyone who wants to do real work. The other big issue is reliability if you are only recording ISO. Hard Drives don’t like to be carried around, so that’s a bad choice for a camcorder.
As for the hiss of a recorder, that would only matter if you use a on-camera mic, which in my mind shouldn’t be allowed if you are getting paid for your work, or want to sound even a bit professional.
Vince
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