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serious quicktime issue
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no, not at all Rafa, it can’t be just anything it has to be an AVI supported codec
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yeah, avi to mov. im just concerned about this sudden change in speed. yesterday quicktime would save a 12 minute avi as a mov in about 45 seconds, now it seems like it’s going to take over an hour to do exactly the same thing.
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as far as i understand mov and avi are just container formats, and mov containers are compatible with dv pal, so i assumed you’d be able to transfer the video information into a new container. but please tell me if i’m wrong and all quicktime was doing was re-encoding the video very quickly, then if i sort this codec problem out i can start doing this another way. i appreciate the help.
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Hi Nigel,
Fallow Andy advice and install the “Save as AVI.component” from the MPEG Streamclip Extras folder.
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ive done that and reset the mac, it hasnt rectified the problem, is there a base set of codecs on the mac somewhere that deal with movs and avis? (they’re not divx avis) would a reinstall of final cut studio or even leopard reset whatever it is that’s changed to make the whole “save as” process slower. even if there are better ways to do the job at hand it’d still like to sort this problem out rather than work around it, so i doesnt come back later and bite me on the arse.
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Are you sure its not clip specific Nigel? Can you test again with one of the clips that appeared to convert without issue beforehand.
Regarding the “Save As AVI” component … MPEG Streamclip’s rewrap function should already work just fine without this component installed as it’s functionality is already built directly in to the app; installing the component allows you to also use Quicktime Player or other supported apps to rewrap by using the “Movie to Save As AVI” option from the Export settings list. With that in mind, you might try using Quicktime Player 7 to open and export/rewrap one of these problem clips and see if that works ok.
Best
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I’ve tried using quicktime, that’s the problem, quicktime is not working like it did the day before yesterday. I’ve tried “save as” on several clips, 99% which were captured through premiere 6.5, by me, and none of them save any where nearly as fast as they did before. I didn’t have the “save as avi” component installed before, and it’s not an AVI that I want to save as anyway, because the files are already AVIs, i want to save them as movs.
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You don’t use a Save As function for this; you use the export function.
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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sorry to get impatient tom, but this is not the point. the point is i WAS using “save as” before, and this function worked fine. perhaps it’s not the right way to convert avis, but how to convert avis isn’t the question im asking. i’m asking:
what could have changed to make the process of “save as” in quicktime pro take 100x times as long as it did the day before. the facts:
on day 1 clicking “save as” would save an avi as a mov in about 45 seconds.
on day 2 doing exactly the same thing takes an hour.
what could have been changed within my system that would create this difference?
even if the export function works great it doesn’t address the problem that something has changed somewhere that’s affecting how my mac deals with avis and/or movs.
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premiere pro 2.0, pardon me.
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