[MacDV] Mac dv to Windows Media Video

Gerhard gerhardk at mac.com
Sun Oct 23 10:16:12 PDT 2005


1920 x 1080 is the largest mpg4 file QT Pro exports on my system,  
maybe larger with custom options.

Gerhard
On Oct 23, 2005, at 12:55 PM, Neil Poese wrote:

> Hmm - I saw MPEG4  as an option in QT Pro and wondered about it,  
> but the MPEG4 dimensions in QTPro are still only 320x240. Is that  
> 'cause it would be  expecting too much for CD throughput to handle  
> 640x480?  I guess that's part of what I was wondering about WMV;  
> whether it would compress enough to handle full-screen and full  
> motion. I'll go ahead an burn the MPG, just to see if it looks any  
> better that the half-size QT file.
>
> Thanks,
> Neil
>
> James Asherman wrote:
>
>
>>
>> On Oct 23, 2005, at 12:10 PM, Neil Poese wrote:
>>
>>
>>> I have a high school Mac  dv-based video lab and several of my  
>>> students want to burn CDs of their clips.
>>>
>>> With QuickTime I can get .dv files that will burn on the CDs, but  
>>> they are too large to play on either my Mac or PC without copying  
>>> them to the computer. I can create 320x240 15fps QT files, but  
>>> they're small and low-quality.
>>>
>>> Since WMV is so good now, would it be possible to bring the .dv  
>>> CD to a windows machine and basically transcode them to a WMV  
>>> file that I can burn onto another CD will play from the CD and be  
>>> better quality than 1/2 speed and 1/2 size?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Neil Poese
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Try  Mpeg4.
>> J
>>
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