On 01/03/2010, paul stenquist <[email protected]> wrote: > They've AVI files. Something I never heard of. Apparently, IMovie has never > heard of it as well. I want to be able to burn HD DVDs and watch them on my > plasma monitor. I think the latest version of Toast will let me burn them, > but I have to be able to edit a bit.
AVI (Audio Video Interleave) is a Windows thing, quite popular in fact but it's only a multimedia container format, the video format embedded in the AVIs from the Pentax cams is m-jpeg (Motion JPEG) and the audio component is straight PCM as far as I'm aware (K7 is stereo of course). Info from one of my K-x video files: Complete name : I:\Archive\Pentax DSLR\IMGX00954.AVI Format : AVI Format/Info : Audio Video Interleave File size : 95.4 MiB Duration : 22s 0ms Overall bit rate : 36.4 Mbps Mastered date : 2010/02/27 23:25:56 Writing application : PENTAX K-x Video ID : 0 Format : M-JPEG Codec ID : MJPG Duration : 22s 0ms Bit rate : 35.9 Mbps Width : 1 280 pixels Height : 720 pixels Display aspect ratio : 16:9 Frame rate : 24.000 fps Resolution : 8 bits Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 1.621 Stream size : 94.0 MiB (99%) Audio Format : PCM Format settings, Endianness : Little Format settings, Sign : Unsigned Codec ID : 1 Codec ID/Hint : Microsoft Duration : 22s 0ms Bit rate mode : Constant Bit rate : 512 Kbps Channel(s) : 1 channel Sampling rate : 32.0 KHz Resolution : 16 bits Stream size : 1.34 MiB (1%) Interleave, duration : 1000 ms (24.00 video frames) Interleave, preload duration : 1000 ms -- Rob Studdert (Digital Image Studio) Tel: +61-418-166-870 UTC +10 Hours Gmail, eBay, Skype, Twitter, Facebook, Picasa: distudio -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.

