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serious quicktime issue
I’ve been trying to convert (re-wrap) a ton a of avis to movs for a couple of days now and it’s not gone well. Final cut pro was running quite badly with them but it managed to do some if i did a few at a time. i didn’t want to leave it going over night at the risk of crashing and getting nothing done.
so i tried mpeg streamclip, which did the job but the videos came out looking interlaced. i tried to install ffmpeg but got lost.
I dont know at what point this happened, but a codec or something must have become corrupted, because now final cut crashes everytime i try to do save out one avi as a mov, and mpeg streamclip AND quicktime have both slowed to a crawl when i open an avi and so to “save as” – mov. before, they would both rocket through it, but now both are painfully slow. does anyone know what i might have done?
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28 Replies
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You probably should give the exact specifications of the original AVI material. Why aren’t you using Compressor for this?
All the best,
Tom
Class on Demand DVDs “Complete Training for FCP7,” “Basic Training for FCS” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy”
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dv pal apparently. i was doing this before, the odd one here and there as i went along, and in quicktime is was simply a case of opening the file, going to save as and chosing a location, it wouldn’t take much time and i’d get a nice neat mov out of it, completely unchanged.
i’m not using compressor because as far as i can see i can only re-encode it, which is an unnecessary hassle, re-wraps seem to be quicker and there’s no risk of losing quality or increasing the file size.
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perhaps i’m wrong about compressor, and would be very happy to find that i can use compressor to do this job, but at the moment i’m more concerned that something has been changed at a base level in terms of what ever it is that quicktime and mpegstreamclip reference for re-wraps/conversions of avis and movs.
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Hi Nigel
Are you sure you did uncheck “Interlaced scaling” in MPGSTreamclip?
Rafael -
when you “save as” you don’t get any of the options you do with export, there’s no codec or scaling settings. you just choose the destination.
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Nigel
Did you install the MPEG Streamclip “Save as AVI.component” from the Extras folder?
Andy -
Hi Nigel,
I see the options on “Save as” (I had no idea of the existence).
But that the option shows there, it doesn’t means that works.
If this would work, you could “Rewrap” a 1080 Prores as AVI.
Or as MP4, another of the options.
In fact I don’t think that the “Rewrap” is possible between QT and AVI, whatever the codec.
I’ve never heard of going QT>AVI or back without rendering.
In the QT/MAC environment “Save as..” won’t never lets you change the nature of the file. You will be able to change the name or the length of a movie, or Make a Reference movie only.
Anyway I may be wrong at this respect.
I’ve been going through the MPGStreamclip manual and found nothing.
Cheers,
rafael -
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no, i’ll try that, but it’s not an avi i’m trying to save as, and it was working fine when i tried it yesterday, i dont understand what would have changed. if a program was using a codec or component and it crashed could that corrupt said component
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apologies Nigel, I misread .. you’re going the other way yes? trying to rewrap dv pal avi to dv pal mov.
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