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Nigel Askew
November 17, 2009 at 6:29 pm in reply to: batch convert with quicktime?

I dont want to transcode though, that takes alot more time, space and hassle than should be neccessary. i know that you can re-wrap avi to mov, and it doesnt take any time, i just need to know if there’s a way this can be done with automator (as far as i can see there isn’t without spending a lot of time on learning applescript) or final cut media manager (which is currently stuck) or mpeg streamclip which seems to work very well except that the videos come out looking interlaced. this doesnt makes sense to me, you can see when it’s converting them that it’s not re-encoding them because it doesn’t say “XX mbps” and it goes at a speed comparable to quicktime’s rewrap speed.
Nigel Askew
November 17, 2009 at 4:02 pm in reply to: batch convert with quicktime?

they are mixed sizes, some are had and some arent. in quicktime, exporting just retains all the sizes, it will take a long time so sort through all these, separate them, and then i’m not sure what setting to use in compressor, we dont want h.264 because we want to edit with them, uncompressed will be too big surely. i was hoping there’d be a way to do it that was as simple as opening it in quicktime and then saving it repeatedly.
Nigel Askew
November 17, 2009 at 3:45 pm in reply to: batch convert with quicktime?

it seems to crash alot when dealing with large numbers of avis, and i managed to get a few out and they came out as final cut pro movies.
Nigel Askew
October 22, 2009 at 3:21 pm in reply to: MOV file size too big

it’s cool, i guessed as much. thanks for that though, basically, we’re sending a load of footage out to a client on a hard drive and i think he just needs to be able to watch it, but it would be great if we could keep the conversions we do now for our archive. ill give photo jpeg a go.

thanks alot for you help 🙂
Nigel Askew
October 22, 2009 at 3:09 pm in reply to: MOV file size too big

Ok, thanks.

Coukd anyone recommend any of those listed in terms of file size and quality? jpeg 2000? sorenson 3?

any help here would be greatly appreciated and save a lot of time.

thanks
Nigel Askew
October 22, 2009 at 1:50 pm in reply to: MOV file size too big

oh ok, what would you suggest?

Pro Res? Motion JPEG A?

The client we’re converting for at the moment is on an apple, do they need to have FCP installed to play dvc pro hd?

thanks
Nigel Askew
October 22, 2009 at 9:53 am in reply to: MOV file size too big

OK thanks, well atleast all my research yesterday wasn’t in vain, looks like I made the right choice, just out of curiosity, is it better to convert these files in toast or mpeg streamclip, and if streamclip, what are the best settings to use for dvc pro hd?
Nigel Askew
September 8, 2009 at 11:30 am in reply to: 3000 hours of Beta SP, best way to capture?

Our deck is labelled PVW, would this be better or worse in terms of noise?
Nigel Askew
September 8, 2009 at 10:43 am in reply to: 3000 hours of Beta SP, best way to capture?

We’re archiving our tape archive, and we’d like to edit it from the raid on our FCP machine and preferably our PCs too. Thanks for your help.

IMX seems to be the way we’re headed at the moment, unless there are any good reasons not to. What advantage does ProRes SQ have over IMX?

thanks alot

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