Christopher Rotter
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[Jeff Meyer] “If you can tell us the basics we can help.
1) Why are you transcoding? You’re in the Adobe CS area – Adobe CS5 work natively with most formats, so there’s no reason to transcode in many cases.
2) What are you transcoding? (Video from a camera? What camera? Motion graphics? How were they exported? Downloaded video? What format is it?)
3) What are you creating? Is this a commercial? A short film? Documentary? It’s also worth noting where it’s headed. Things are different when things are going to the web than they are when they’re destined for the big screen.
We aren’t trying to steal your project or your ideas, we’re trying to help you. Right now we have a list of SD and HD codecs that are lossy and lossless, different aspect ratios, delivery and editing formats, and there’s no apparent rhyme or reason behind any of this. When you go to the mechanic you don’t give him a list of parts your car uses, you say hey, I’m hearing a noise when I make a left-hand turn, can you look into that?”
I’m Transcoding so another video editor can load a video files I’ve created. As it turns out because it’s still in beta despite being commercial a few years ago all the codecs that the video editor should be able to read, it can’t. I just want a method to transcode my video, if the video is not originally exported out to a specific codec . I want a reliable transcoding workflow. The amount of converting software out there insane but without even having much experience with most of them, I feel most of them are garbage. I don’t know how the development cycle is for this video editor and when it will be released out of beta. I don’t have any time to wait around, I’m going to find some info out from other users, how to get this to work, if I can.
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I need to take a few clips and convert them, so the software that I’m using can read them. In my original message the first part of the message I posted a list of codecs. Those codecs are the ones that the software can only read. I want to know if there are any alternatives rather then QT Pro I can use to transcode some clips for the software. I also want to write future clips to a codec that my software can read from the first list (lossless).
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If I don’t want to purchase QT Pro, I want to go another free / open source route is there any other options that can fulfill what everyone in this thread is saying QT Pro can do specifically, to what my goal is ?
@ Kevin – Thank you for that info 🙂
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What is it that you’re really trying to accomplish? What’s your workflow like? Why do you want to delete codecs from your system?
I want to TransCode/convert video to one of the CoDecs I listed in the first part of my message. I also want to know which of those CoDecs in the top part of my original message that I can eliminate from that list because of their life and reliability etc ?
In the second part of my message I listed all the Audio & Video CoDecs installed on my computer. Which of them can I delete ? I want to keep Audio and Video CoDecs that are beneficial, not collecting dust on my computer, up to this point I never use. Unless some of the CoDecs installed are tied in with other things on the system ?
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Any other options besides the original QT ? The codecs listed in the second part of my message, is there any in that list, I can delete that are old ?
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@Walter Soyka or whomever.
Maybe you can help me, the video editor I use can I/O the following formats- MXF Op1a, MXF OpAtom, Quicktime and AVI
- DV25, DVCPRO 25, DVCPRO 50, and DVCPRO HD
- MPEG-2 I-Frame SD and HD
- Uncompressed SD and HD at 8 bit and 10 bit
(theres more but of no use to me)
I’m using XVid4PSP5 for converting my video so I can load it into the video editor, none of the conversion codecs in XVid4PSP5 do the trick. Do you have any suggestions ?
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Thank you for that explanation it helped 🙂
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Avid makes DNxHD freely available as a QuickTime codec only. There is no DirectShow or VfW implementation (one of which would be necessary for standard AVI output).
No DirectShow or VfW implementation. What is beneficial then using the Avid Codec and when you say it’s a QuickTime Codec only, which means it only will play on QuickTime ? Sorry, want to make heads and tails of this 🙂
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I understand this, what are you trying to tell me that no program exist as to what I’m after. 🙂
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Do you know any free opensource recommendations that can write to Mov/Avi with the CODEC you first presented and write to H.264 ?
I’m presently using two programs which one can’t write to the CODEC you first presented but they both can write to H.264. I’ve spend countless hours searching for something that has several CODECs built in, but can use other installed CODECS and fire out nice h.264 as well. I work with a video editor that is picky and requires only AVI or MOV input. I don’t want the uncompressed file sizes, I know you recommended the AVID codec and the PhotoJPEG compression in MOV but as I mentioned, I’m missing the program 🙂