> Ed,
> I had a similar problem getting the output from my Canon 5D Mark II into a
> Cinelerra-usable format.  My solution was to reencode the 1080P H264 into
> 1080P MPEG-TS.
>
> Here is my tale of woe from earlier this year:
> http://crazedmuleproductions.blogspot.com/2009/02/dark-of-winter-has-me-in-its-grasp.html
>
> The MPEG2-TS is the section you'd want to focus on.
>
> scott
> http://crazedmuleproductions.blogspot.com
>

Hello Scott,

Thanks for the information. I see that you had to recode a .mov file to
make it acceptable to Cinelerra.
You also say that the mjpeg does not live up to quality standards and I
think you are right. Besides, I would like to offer footage to Cinelerra
that has not been recoded so that the original recording quality is
maintained. That is possible because the .tod files that my JVC GZ-HD30
produces are in fact mpeg2 files. When feeding the .tod to avidemux, it is
recognize as a MPEG TS.
As said in a previous message, I used ffmpeg to convert the .tod file to
mpg as Cinelerra accepts it, while avoiding encoding by copying the
codecs:

fmpeg -i footage.tod -acodec copy -vcodec copy footage.mpg

The drawback is the fact that when imported in the Cinelerra timeline, the
video part is a few frames longer than the audio part at the end due to
the fact that the tail of the audio is apparantly cut. So it is not a
synchronization problem.
When importing the file footage.mpg to MainActor, everything is all right:
video and audio are equally long. So it is not a problem of footage.mpg
itself but the way Cinelera looks at it or the way the timeline presents
this particular mpeg footage.

I am going to experiment a bit more.



Regards,

Ed



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