Hi This process is called transcoding where one video format is converted to another. iMovie 09 will work with AVCHD as will the latest versions of Final Cut Pro and Final Cut Express. If you have any of these then you can just copy the video files from the camera and work with them as they are.
If however you are using iMovie 08 or earlier then you will need to convert the files to work with them as has been done. Cheers B. 2009/8/30 Jason Davies <[email protected]>: > > Richard Gorrill wrote on 30/8/09 at 16:48 > >>According to the camera operating guide the clips are in AVCHD format, >>adopting MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 format for compression. >> >> >> >>The files on the Mac are .mov files. A clip 1 minute 35 secs long >>occupies 1.15GB; it says it is a Quicktime Movie, codecs Apple Prores >>422, integer (Little Endian), Timecode. >> >> >> >>I'm afraid I am not up on the technical bits > > nor am I but it looks very much like a highly compressed format > (h.264) is being converted to a completely uncompressed format (DV). > > I'm no expert but see if iMovie HD will work with them natively > (create a new project that is 'MPEG 4') if you have it. Not sure > about iMovie 7, whether that will do it. > > You might at least be able to cut them down to a useful size. > You said 'editing' but I wasn't sure whether you meant removing > bits you wanted or something more elaborate. > > I believe that QuickTime Pro (Leopard and earlier) or QuickTimeX > (Snow Leopard) will edit them natively (without changing the > format) but that's a rumour and you may have neither of them. > > > > > -- Benjamin Stanley - Technical Director - Trilby Multimedia 47-49 Loveday Street, Birmingham, B4 6NR Telephone: 0121 333 6860 www.trilby.co.uk --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
