I've got a mid-09 macbook pro, 3 ghz/4gb ram, etc.. I do some HD editing in FCE 4 with video shot with my Canon HF10. I'm thinking about speeding up my exporting using ffmpeg on an Ubuntu machine.
I think it'll go like this:
-edit video, render, etc in FCE, export as quicktime video (no changes to video, just the export as quicktime video, not quicktime converter), and save it as a self-contained video to the ubuntu machine.
-Then, have ffmpeg on ubuntu export it to the various versions I'd like (SD for a DVD, small version for web, version for iphone, maybe into wmv for windows users, etc.)
I really just want to free up my laptop instead of having to use it for all of the exporting which means I can't do anything else in those hours. I know it won't necessarily speed it up because the ubuntu machine just has a dual core AMD 2.6, but I'd like to hand it off and not have to worry about it. Im no ffmpeg master, but I have used it before and I know I can study the docs a bit and play with it to find all of the settings I want for each version. Then I can write a perl script (which I'm learning now) to export these videos once they're on the ubuntu machine.
Anyone do this? Any suggestions? Is the quality from ffmpeg to each different version as good as it'd be from FCE?
I think it'll go like this:
-edit video, render, etc in FCE, export as quicktime video (no changes to video, just the export as quicktime video, not quicktime converter), and save it as a self-contained video to the ubuntu machine.
-Then, have ffmpeg on ubuntu export it to the various versions I'd like (SD for a DVD, small version for web, version for iphone, maybe into wmv for windows users, etc.)
I really just want to free up my laptop instead of having to use it for all of the exporting which means I can't do anything else in those hours. I know it won't necessarily speed it up because the ubuntu machine just has a dual core AMD 2.6, but I'd like to hand it off and not have to worry about it. Im no ffmpeg master, but I have used it before and I know I can study the docs a bit and play with it to find all of the settings I want for each version. Then I can write a perl script (which I'm learning now) to export these videos once they're on the ubuntu machine.
Anyone do this? Any suggestions? Is the quality from ffmpeg to each different version as good as it'd be from FCE?