Re: format for video/MPEG-2 Playback Component

2006-02-19 Thread Brian McEwen
On Feb 19, 2006, at 10:35 AM, Amber Robey wrote: I had just been hoping there was some freeware that would at least allow me to convert or encode the clips to usable Quicktime clips so I could import them into iMovie and edit them there. did you read the posts about ffmpegx? Did you try

Re: format for video/MPEG-2 Playback Component

2006-02-19 Thread Howard Katz
If this is a one-time project, Amber,why not take the files to a video operation that does this sort of thing for a living? Might be cheaper than forking over for programs you might not use again. I used one to transfer a PAL taketo NTSC for a friend--the charge wasn't too much IIRC. Later..

Re: format for video/MPEG-2 Playback Component

2006-02-19 Thread Amber Robey
On 18-Feb-06, at 9:34 PM, Brian McEwen wrote: I would expect that spending the $ to let you play them, would also let you edit them, but this is Apple, and I have not the capability to test as I'm not going to fork out the double $ to get Pro and the codec (I have one of the iLife bundle

Re: format for video/MPEG-2 Playback Component

2006-02-18 Thread Brian McEwen
On Feb 19, 2006, at 12:11 AM, Amber Robey wrote: I had been told that Quicktime Pro 7 and the MPEG-2 Playback Add- on would allow me to transcode these files so that they will not stutter. I was hoping that somebody here had both and could test this for me with a small file before I g

Re: format for video/MPEG-2 Playback Component

2006-02-18 Thread Amber Robey
On 18-Feb-06, at 8:50 PM, Brian McEwen wrote: On Feb 18, 2006, at 7:31 PM, Amber Robey wrote: I had been told that Quicktime Pro 7 and the MPEG-2 Playback Add- on would allow me to transcode these files so that they will not stutter. I was hoping that somebody here had both and could t

Re: format for video/MPEG-2 Playback Component

2006-02-18 Thread Brian McEwen
On Feb 18, 2006, at 7:31 PM, Amber Robey wrote: I had been told that Quicktime Pro 7 and the MPEG-2 Playback Add-on would allow me to transcode these files so that they will not stutter. I was hoping that somebody here had both and could test this for me with a small file before I go a

Re: format for video/MPEG-2 Playback Component

2006-02-18 Thread Amber Robey
On 18-Feb-06, at 4:23 PM, Dylan McDermond wrote: On Feb 18, 2006, at 7:57 AM, Amber Robey wrote: The computer formats may be the same but the video formats are not. The videos are all in Pal format vs the North American NTSC format. Ah, there is you problem. You cannot mix 25fps (PAL)

Re: format for video/MPEG-2 Playback Component

2006-02-18 Thread Dylan McDermond
On Feb 18, 2006, at 7:57 AM, Amber Robey wrote: The computer formats may be the same but the video formats are not. The videos are all in Pal format vs the North American NTSC format. However, I am not sure if this really makes a difference once they load them onto the computer. I wou

Re: format for video/MPEG-2 Playback Component

2006-02-18 Thread Amber Robey
On 18-Feb-06, at 5:35 AM, Howard Katz wrote: I know this is a long-shot, but could there possibly be any incompatibility due to the different video format that her British relatives originally used to record the video? I know the computer formats should be the same from country to country, but

Re: format for video/MPEG-2 Playback Component

2006-02-18 Thread Howard Katz
On 2/18/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Amber, I'd try opening them with Windows Media Player, if you've got > it. It's a miserable piece of horribly buggy code, but it does work, > some of the time. As Phil said, VLC usually does a pretty decent job, > or it has on my Linux box

Re: format for video/MPEG-2 Playback Component

2006-02-17 Thread calebcupplessocialism
As Caleb incorrectly posted, MPEG-1 playback is and has been built-in to Quicktime for many versions. Eh, I got it halfway right, at least. I've never had reason to work with MPEG-1, so I was playing the guessing game there. The MPEG-4 stuff is all correct, though. Amber, I'd try opening the

Re: format for video/MPEG-2 Playback Component

2006-02-17 Thread derivatize
From: Amber Robey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On 17-Feb-06, at 9:09 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You've got it backwards. MPEG4 and H.264 play in standard QT 7, but MPEG 1 and 2 are part of a $20 MPEG playback upgrade, that isn't even part of Pro, AFAIK Caleb Hi Caleb, Thank you for your input

Re: format for video/MPEG-2 Playback Component

2006-02-17 Thread Amber Robey
On 17-Feb-06, at 9:09 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You've got it backwards. MPEG4 and H.264 play in standard QT 7, but MPEG 1 and 2 are part of a $20 MPEG playback upgrade, that isn't even part of Pro, AFAIK Caleb Hi Caleb, Thank you for your input on this query. I was able to co