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.
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converting DV to mpeg
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wordmunger
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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?
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
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ChrisFromCanada
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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.
Good luck.
evil_santa
macrumors 6502a
Steven1621 said:
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