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.
Not too bad of a process! David http://www.davidleeking.com/etc - for my videos On 12/15/06, Michael Verdi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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 the mpeg4 of the xacti to DV. It's > pretty > simple and you're probably already doing it if you are using iMovie. So in > iMovie if you create a new "DV" project (this is the default) and then you > drag clips into iMovie you'll notice that iMovie has to "import" them. > What > it's actually doing is converting the clips to DV. > In FCP if you make a new sequence (DV by default) and you put your xacti > clips into it they'll have to be rendered. "Rendering" the clips in this > case really means converting them to DV. > If you want to be really fancy about it you can make yourself a DV preset > in > compressor and then make that preset a "droplet" with is a little mini > application. Then you just drop your clips on the compressor droplet and > it > will convert anything into DV. > > On Windows my only experience is with Movie Maker which actually does > mpeg4 > video quite well. The one deal is that Movie Maker wants .avi files not > .mp4 > so you have to use a free program called MP4CamToAVI to quickly put an avi > wrapper on the files (this doesn't recompress them). Then you can edit > them > easily in Movie Maker. Actually the best little camera for use with Movie > Maker is the Canon Powershots. They make mjpeg clips in an avi wrapper so > you can just drag them into Movie Maker and start editing - takes 2 > seconds. > > <plug>BTW, all of that info is in our book - Secrets of > Videoblogging</plug> > > -Michael > > On 12/15/06, Markus Sandy <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <markus.sandy%40mac.com>> > wrote: > > > > 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 the conference: > > > > http://flashmeeting.open.ac.uk/fm/memo.php?pwd=59255f-6714&jt=00:20:24 > > > > thanks > > markus > > > > --- > > Markus Sandy > > http://feeds.feedburner.com/havemoneywillvlog > > http://feeds.feedburner.com/apperceptions > > http://feeds.feedburner.com/digitaldojo > > http://feeds.feedburner.com/spinflow > > > > > > > > -- > http://michaelverdi.com > http://spinxpress.com > http://freevlog.org > Author of Secrets Of Videoblogging - http://tinyurl.com/me4vs > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > -- David King davidleeking.com - blog http://davidleeking.com/etc - videoblog [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
