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Which Video Converter Do You Use?

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c43amg

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I have always used Pocked Dvd for AVI's but to make MPEG-4 for the iphone it uses ALOT of MB. 1.3-1.7 MB's for ONE movie. If I convert them any less they look OK but run real slow. I have to make them 30fps to run smooth on the iphone. I want my videos to be at LEAST 700-800MB a movie but in good quality. Is this possible, and if yes which program??

AVI's I make 400-500 MB and they look and run nice on Pocket Pc's.
Mpeg seem to be different?
 
+1 on handbrake or iSquint
Since you didn't specify which platform your on.. the above mentioned progs are Mac OS.

For Winders I've no idea, others will chime in I'm sure.
 
Quicktime Pro ftw (at least on the Mac. Not sure about the Windows version). I used to use FFMpeg X, which does work, sometimes... Quicktime Pro works 100% of the time for outputting iPhone/iPod touch compatible files. It came with Logic Studio, which was a sweet bonus I didn't expect :D

Unexpected bonuses are hard to come by these days...
 
sdsvtdriver said:
Super is on Windows.
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Yes, that's what I have (for now) is windows.

Thanks I will google it. I just coverted transformers at 30fps and the file can ou to 2.3GB! 1.3 at 24fps but it ran choppy,slow motion. I used FREE STUDIO 3.1 which FREE but just doesn't make a low MB movie. Am I doing something wrong when converting?
 
c43amg said:
Yes, that's what I have (for now) is windows.

Thanks I will google it. I just coverted transformers at 30fps and the file can ou to 2.3GB! 1.3 at 24fps but it ran choppy,slow motion. I used FREE STUDIO 3.1 which FREE but just doesn't make a low MB movie. Am I doing something wrong when converting?
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It sounds like you're not changing the resolution to be that of the iPhone.
 
try this www.jodix.com it's a free converter made to convert over to iPod/iPhone. I love it works perfect everytime and I rarley have files over 1GB. But the bigger you let the file be the better the quality so it's really up to you. Give it a try it's free.
 
Handbrake for new rips, VisualHub for any old ones that aren't iPhone playable
 
for windows use Any Video Converter, its free and will do iPhone compatible mp4's and just about any other file type you wish to convert to, you can also select how many threads you want to run (assuming you have a multi-core system) for mac use AVC for mac or handbrake...

with the AVC for windows you can select the file size so you get the quality you want
 
VisualHub does anything and everything, has presets for various devices too. Simple and easy to use and very cheap!
 
c43amg said:
Yes, that's what I have (for now) is windows.

Thanks I will google it. I just coverted transformers at 30fps and the file can ou to 2.3GB! 1.3 at 24fps but it ran choppy,slow motion. I used FREE STUDIO 3.1 which FREE but just doesn't make a low MB movie. Am I doing something wrong when converting?[/QUoute]

How big a file are you starting with.
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Flhusky said:
+1 on handbrake or iSquint
Since you didn't specify which platform your on.. the above mentioned progs are Mac OS.

For Winders I've no idea, others will chime in I'm sure.
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Handbrake is available for Windows too. I've used it + AnyDVD for DVDs. I like it a lot.

bc
 
snook911 said:
try this www.jodix.com it's a free converter made to convert over to iPod/iPhone. I love it works perfect everytime and I rarley have files over 1GB. But the bigger you let the file be the better the quality so it's really up to you. Give it a try it's free.
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I tried it but does not grab from a dvd rom, only FILES. Thanks tho, I, trying others now.

Joe23 said:
I've used Xilisoft iPhone Video Converter in the past and it's worked pretty well.
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Nice but I should have mentioned I want to try something thats free.
 
SFStateStudent said:
HandBrake is good for ripping DVD to iPhone movies. I also use MPEG StreamClip for converting those avi movies to MPEG-4, most of my movies are smaller than 1.3GB converting to iPhone, usually 500MB-900MB.
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i tried the windows version and I get a scribbled movie at the end? I tried different settings but nothing seems to work.

Does anyone have handbrake with VISTA that works for them? If yes can you please share your settings?
 
c43amg said:
I have always used Pocked Dvd for AVI's but to make MPEG-4 for the iphone it uses ALOT of MB. 1.3-1.7 MB's for ONE movie. If I convert them any less they look OK but run real slow. I have to make them 30fps to run smooth on the iphone. I want my videos to be at LEAST 700-800MB a movie but in good quality. Is this possible, and if yes which program??

AVI's I make 400-500 MB and they look and run nice on Pocket Pc's.
Mpeg seem to be different?
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Handbrake for ripping DVD's.
iSquint for converting downloaded moives.
 
Tooble for downloading YouTube video and converting to iPod/iPhone compatible vids. Can browse through the app or copy and paste the URL from a browser into the app. Downloads, converts and then dumps the output straight into iTunes.

Tooble is great for avoiding iTunes store music video charges or for having a copy of a song before you go and buy the album (which is what I did for the new Kings Of Leon track - I'm not buying the single when the album comes out in a couple of weeks!)
:)
 
is there something like VisualHub but for PC? my dad needs it....visualhub has always worked perfectly for me....to bad he doesn't have a mac

btw I am interested in converting windows media or any other form of video quickly and easily to flash....
 
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