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Steven1621
Jul 5, 2004, 01:04 PM
does anyone know of a way to convert the footage i get from my digital camcorder into something significantly smaller like mpeg? i have search through the macromors site and can't seem to find any suggestions for this.


wordmunger
Jul 5, 2004, 01:06 PM
does anyone know of a way to convert the footage i get from my digital camcorder into something significantly smaller like mpeg? i have search through the macromors site and can't seem to find any suggestions for this.
I think you need quicktime pro.
live4ever
Jul 5, 2004, 01:44 PM
What kind of mpeg?

There's mpeg1 (320x240 - VCD), mpeg2 (720x480 - DVD, 480x480 SVCD), and mpeg4 which can be almost any size and bitrate you want.

Do you want them to be only playable on your computer or burn them to disc to watch on a TV?
wordmunger
Jul 5, 2004, 02:43 PM
Can't you just import it into iMovie, then export it as a quicktime movie?
Steven1621
Jul 5, 2004, 02:48 PM
i have quicktime pro. what exactly would i have to do?
Steven1621
Jul 5, 2004, 02:49 PM
What kind of mpeg?

There's mpeg1 (320x240 - VCD), mpeg2 (720x480 - DVD, 480x480 SVCD), and mpeg4 which can be almost any size and bitrate you want.

Do you want them to be only playable on your computer or burn them to disc to watch on a TV?

i plan to first burn to DVD and then store on my computer for the long term.
ChrisFromCanada
Jul 5, 2004, 03:25 PM
I don't know exactly what you did but you definitely seem to have taken the hardest way. What program did you use to import your footage? Do you have the raw dv files? If you do then simply open in quicktime pro and then select export in the file menu and choose from many different file types. If you dont have quicktime pro you could try ffmpegX

Good luck.
Steven1621
Jul 5, 2004, 03:29 PM
I don't know exactly what you did but you definitely seem to have taken the hardest way. What program did you use to import your footage? Do you have the raw dv files? If you do then simply open in quicktime pro and then select export in the file menu and choose from many different file types. If you dont have quicktime pro you could try ffmpegX

Good luck.

it is footage directly off my digi camcorder
evil_santa
Jul 5, 2004, 03:35 PM
i plan to first burn to DVD and then store on my computer for the long term.

I would go for mpeg4, you can export from finalcut / quicktime / imovie. If you have a large amount of disk space you could make a disk image of the DVD them play it from your HD.

here is a bit of a tutorial (http://journalism.berkeley.edu/multimedia/tutorials/webvideo/choices.html)