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 Final Cut Pro. I do this for two reasons - 1. Final Cut Pro's "export with Quicktime conversion" sucks because it never remembers your settings so I compress the full DV clip with QuickTime Pro (it remembers your settings). 2. I store all of those full DV clips in a folder until I've got about 4GB of them and then I back them up on a DVD.
So the end result is I've got a bunch of iPhoto library discs that are organized by date with the original Xacti clips and I've got another bunch of DVDs with full DV copies of video on them. Usually there are only 6 - 8 videos on those discs so I just write the names of the videos on the discs. -Michael On 12/15/06, Lan Bui <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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 the xacti? > > I have a canon SD800 that takes great video (not so great sound) and > have trouble when I want to go back and find footage. How have you > been successful at this? > > -Lan > www.LanBui.com > -------------------- > > > On Dec 15, 2006, at 3:52 PM, Michael Verdi 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] > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > -- 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]
