Michael,
Thanks for the explanation, I watched (some) of the flashmeeting
after it was over and wondered why you would convert such small files
to big ones. Your explanation is good.
Chris brought up a good point though, archival is important; how do
you archive and manage your clips from
Here's what I do:
I use iPhoto to store all the clips and photos from my xacti. It tells me
how much space my library takes up. So I can keep selecting some film
rolls until they add up to about 4GB and then I burn them to DVD right in
iPhoto.
I also export a full DV copy of my edited videos from
I'll also vouch for the simplicity of MP4CamToAVI. I use it with my Xacti on
Windows. SO, I do the MP4CamToAVI thing, then edit in Windows MovieMaker and
save as DV. Then I open it up in Quicktime Pro to turn the video into .mov
and the iTunes (can't remember the file extension thingie) formats.
hey michael verdi,
yesterday in the video conference you mentioned that you convert from
mpeg4 to dv as part of your workflow when using your xacti
can you elaborate on that a bit more? why and how you do you do that
(i.e., settings)?
do other folks do this too?
here's a link to that part of
Sure - here's why.
For whatever reason, Macs suck at editing mpeg4 video. If you try to set up
a mpeg4 iMovie project or you change your sequence settings in FCP to match
the Xacti settings, I've found it to be very unstable and prone to lots of
rendering errors.
The easy solution is to transcode
