-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Jan 27, 2007, at 13.34, Salim Fadhley wrote:
I have a neat JVC Everio HDD based video camera. The quality is great but sadly I cannot edit video on my preferred video editing tool (Apple iMovie). Apple's iMovie assumes that all video cameras produce their output in DV format and does not seem to be able to edit anything else. It cannot edit MPEG2 at all, quite why JVC chose a format that is incompatible with the world's most popular video editing software baffles me!
Well, part of the idea of these HDD cams is that you don't intend on doing any major video editing. The fact that most (I don't know about all) HDD cams (even the High Def ones) record directly to MPEG-2 is the reason they're not used in professional editing.
I wonder, can I use transcode to turn that MPEG2 data into DV data so I can quickly import it into iMovie in the format that it expects. Any suggestions? Thanks.
Just use transcode to export to DV (you'll require LibDV, which means you'll have to recompile transcode and/or MPlayer to make it usable) with PCM audio in an AVI container. Should be good enough for iMovie. Of course, if you purchase/acquire an MPEG-2 unlocker for QuickTime you can import the MPEG-2 clips directly into iMovie and it'll convert them to DV for you.
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