[MacDV] Video conversion suggestions for iPad2

[Conlon Brett]

Hey Bernard,

When you ask "How so?" do you mean , how is it NOT re-encoding? Well, I'm not sure exactly what's going on but the file simply re-saves to the hard drive (full write speed). There appears to be no encoding going on.

Thanks for sharing your experience with the Roxio software. So Gerhard, have you noticed the same thing, matey?

Chz,

Brett



On 29/09/2011, at 9:41 AM, Bernard Munter wrote:

> On 29/09/11 001555, "Conlon Brett" <brettnlis at bigpond.com> wrote:
> 
>> I'm looking for your suggestions on what are some good settings I should use
>> when converting my recordings to video files for watching on my iPad.
>> 
>> Here's some facts:
>> 
>> The recorder is a PVR (Topfield 2400) and it captures video streams as raw
>> files (no conversions).
>> 
>> I clean them up in MPEG Streamclip (Start/finish/ads) and then save them as TS
>> so that there is no re-encoding of files.
> 
> How so?
> 
>> I can then watch these on my telly through my Topfield.
>> 
>> Now I want to convert a bunch of them to view on my iPad2.
>> 
>> Does anyone have any good suggestions or even alternative (Mac) solutions for
>> easily/quickly converting video files for their iPad.
>> 
>> Do any of the Roxio products work well for their cost?
> 
> I can only speak to the quality of Roxio products when it comes to encoding
> and transcoding video - not the best, IM(V)HO. They are certainly faster
> than other methods, but there is a strange 'vertical blinds' pixellation
> artefact about the resultant video. I first noticed this effect in DVDs made
> in Toast, and later on, transcoded video when Toast was upgraded to provide
> this function.
> 
> I use Toast for _burning_ DVD images I have made in iDVD, after reading of
> many readers' bad experiences with failed burns in iDVD.
> 
> I cannot speak to the utility of Handbrake for transcoding for iPad, only to
> the effect that it works well for iPhone/iPod Touch.
> 
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