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On Jan 27, 2007, at 14.36, Salim Fadhley wrote:
Actually I should have mentioned... I only do my editing on mac.
Most of my real work gets done on an Ubuntu Linux box. I've got
both to choose from but I prefer to do as much work on Linux
because it's a better computer.
Right tool for the right job.
I agree, the choice of a MPEG2 camera might not have been very
sensible given that I mostly want to edit my family videos. It's
somewhat tedious to have to convert everything, but I've made my
choice and now it's time to face the consequences.
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.
I did buy the apple MPEG-2 code, it did not make MPEG2 importable
into iMovie. I think this feature is restricted to their "pro"
video editing products. If I can convert all my MPEG-2 to DV (or
something else that iMovie can deal with), I was going to bring
them accross from my main computer onto my mac.
Odd.
Any idea what command-line syntax will do the conversion? I will
just hack up a python-script or shell-script to automate it for my
whole video collection.
last I checked, transcode was pretty flexible in its syntax, and so
long as you specify the right options, you'll get your options.
Everything you should need to know to build a command line should be
stored in the man page.
:-)
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