serious quicktime issue

[Tom Wolsky]

I don’t know how long your AVIs are but if it’s just taking 45 seconds that is not the correct way to make them into .mov files. Maybe it worked for you, but all you’re doing is re-wrapping it as a QuickTime file. You really need to convert it to the correct codecs used on the Mac. Your Premiere AVI will not be in a Mac codec. You need to do it as an export. Sure you can go the wrong way down a one way street. the car will not break down and the road won’t collapse, but you shouldn’t do it. Weak analogy but you get the idea. Do it the right way.

All the best,

Tom

Class on Demand DVDs “Complete Training for FCP7,” “Basic Training for FCS” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy”
Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 4 Editing Workshop”

[Nigel Askew]

They’re about 10-15 minutes each. I know it’s a re-wrap, as stated in my first post. I might be wrong here, but i assumed re-wrapping dv-pal footage would be ok, i thought it was a codec native. The fact i shouldn’t be doing it doesn’t explain why the speed of doing it has changed.

to use your analogy, i feel like i’ve taken a car to a garage because it’s gone from doing 60mph one day to 5mph the next, and all the mechanics are asking about the route i’ve been taking in the car instead of asking about the engine.

[Nigel Askew]

im trying to encode a mov in premiere pro for mac and it’s taking an rediculous amount of time to encode. this must be linked to the problem i’m talking about. whatever is used to as a reference to encode movs has been altered or broken. i know there there are component files for some codecs on the mac, but i couldnt see one for movs, and if i could, how would i replace or fix it?

[Tom Wolsky]

It’s not a great analogy because you don’t actually know the speed of the vehicle, all you know is how long it takes you to get there. You’re assuming it’s slowed down, not that it’s taking a different route.

Anyway, I’m assuming your computer is not slowing down, unless it has a faulty processor or RAM, or some hardware that has become defective, I’m assuming it’s doing something differently. What’s changed in the OS or QuickTime? New versions? New hardware? New software?

All the best,

Tom

Class on Demand DVDs “Complete Training for FCP7,” “Basic Training for FCS” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy”
Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 4 Editing Workshop”

[Nigel Askew]

if a drive into town takes 45 seconds one day, and then an hour the next day by the same route in the same car then i know that my car has slowed down.

re-wrapping an avi took 45 seconds on tuesday

yesterday it took aver an hour.

the same file, the same process, the same program.

i agree that something must have changed in my system, this is what i have said several times. if i knew what it was or could be then i wouldn’t need to ask other people. i havent installed anything new. it’s not slowing down according to activity monitor. FCP, Streamclip, Quicktime and Premiere Pro have all been affected by this change.

[Tom Wolsky]

If activity monitor isn’t slowed down then it’s got to tell you it’s doing something else.

What version of FCP, OS, and QuickTime is this? This is from v2 on Premiere Pro on a PC, I think you said. The DV codec is not the same as the Apple DV codec.

All the best,

Tom

Class on Demand DVDs “Complete Training for FCP7,” “Basic Training for FCS” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy”
Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 4 Editing Workshop”

[Nigel Askew]

“The DV codec is not the same as the Apple DV codec.” this may be true, but all the programs i’m using didn’t have a problem with the same AVI files from Premiere 2 days ago, and now they do.

i can’t find out the versions of the programs right now as i’ve finished at work and gone home.

thanks for your time btw.

[Coco Green]

Hi,Nigel Askew, sorry to hear you encountered such problem. When we spend time and money for good .mov files from other video formats, but at last we just get the bad converted video. I hate this, and I just encouned this days ago. So you don’t need to be mad at this, it always happens. I’m a layman for transfering videos, but I’m so lucky to get good freeware named iWisoft Free Video Converter, it helps me to convert any video to mov. And it allows to change codec, video size, crop, trim etc. I like it.