[MacDV] Re: Exporting avi from iMovie

[Mark M.Florida]

MPEG Streamclip will not work because the input file is not MPEG.

You could, theoretically, use an MPEG-4 file as your "in-between" file, 
as long as the image size was set to 640x480 and the bit rate was high 
enough to yield a good picture (probably 2 Mb or higher).

The downsides to this approach:

1. VERY LENGTHY export times (even on a G5 iMac) as compared to just 
spitting the DV video out into an AVI "wrapper".

2. Lossy compression -- even at high bit rates, it won't look as good 
as your DV source.

3. May not be compatible with the system ingesting and converting the 
video for the streaming server.

Can you just BEG AND BEG AND BEG (maybe offer to take him/her/them to 
dinner) and see if they installed QuickTime on the machine that handles 
the streaming conversion if it would work with a DV ".dv" (stream) or 
".mov" (QuickTime) file.  Then they should be able to take any .mov 
file and import it into their Windows Mediocre Streaming "Solution" 
System.  :-P

- Mark

On Sep 29, 2005, at 9:22 AM, Michael Winter wrote:

>
> On Sep 29, 2005, at 8:49 AM, rgb at ellerbach.com wrote:
>
>> I ran a few tests last night on a 14min movie I have (largest that is
>> still on disc) trying different avi creations. Unfortunately any avi 
>> movie
>> larger than 4GB would not play back. The files (anywhere up to 12 GB) 
>> were
>> created without complaint by QTPro but if they were > 4GB they 
>> wouldn't
>> play correctly.
>
> First, I would try something other than QTPro to test playback. I 
> would recommend something like VLC Media Player (its freeware and 
> plays a lot of video QT Player won't). 
> <http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-macosx.html>
>
> Another piece of software that works great is MPEG Streamclip (also 
> freeware) and will export to avi. 
> <http://www.alfanet.it/squared5/mpegstreamclip.html>
>
> -Mike
>
>
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