Re: [videoblogging] converting from mpeg4 to dv

2006-12-17 Thread Michael Verdi
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

Re: [videoblogging] converting from mpeg4 to dv

2006-12-17 Thread Lan Bui
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 t

Re: [videoblogging] converting from mpeg4 to dv

2006-12-16 Thread David King
I'll also vouch for the simplicity of MP4CamToAVI. I use it with my Xacti on Windows. SO, I do the MP4CamToAVI thing, then edit in Windows MovieMaker and save as DV. Then I open it up in Quicktime Pro to turn the video into .mov and the iTunes (can't remember the file extension thingie) formats. N

Re: [videoblogging] converting from mpeg4 to dv

2006-12-15 Thread Michael Verdi
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 t

[videoblogging] converting from mpeg4 to dv

2006-12-15 Thread Markus Sandy
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