[MacDV] Re: Exporting avi from iMovie

[Richard Gilmore]

I haven't tried the DV stream yet. If that fails I will see if the IT guy
will install QT on the machine that does the WMV encoding.

> I think he needs a high-quality DV format AVI to feed into a Windows
> Media streaming authoring app, which DivX, XviD, etc. can't offer.
> 
> - Mark

That's exactly it

>On 29/9/05 10:47 AM, "Mark M.Florida" <markf at squareblue.com> wrote:

> 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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