Nigel Askew
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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damn, it just freezes every time is start a batch, says “writing audio and video…” and the bar stays at 0%. cant find any information on this problem.