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AVI to Quicktime Movie

Posted by preditor

preditor

AVI to Quicktime Movie
December 07, 2013 10:38AM

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What program should I use to convert an .avi file to a quicktime movie? Compressor and MPEG Streamclip seem to not recognize the .avi.

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derekmok

Re: AVI to Quicktime Movie
December 07, 2013 11:18AM

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AVI is simply a wrapper, and QuickTime Player and MPEG Streamclip can open that format just fine. What is the codec?

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preditor

Re: AVI to Quicktime Movie
December 07, 2013 11:28AM

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I'm not sure...it came from a Livestream Studio 50 switcher. MPEG has a problem opening it, but Quicktime player opens it...I'm currently doing a "save as" to a movie file. Will that drop into FCP 7?

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derekmok

Re: AVI to Quicktime Movie
December 07, 2013 11:44AM

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> I'm currently doing a "save as" to a movie file. Will that drop into FCP 7?

That will only work if QuickTime Player can actually see the image. If the picture is all white, then you don't have the codec and a resave won't do any good.

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preditor

Re: AVI to Quicktime Movie
December 07, 2013 11:45AM

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Ok...Quicktime sees the movie and plays it fine. I presume the resolution will stay the same?

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derekmok

Re: AVI to Quicktime Movie
December 07, 2013 12:25PM

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The resolution will be whatever you tell the software to generate. You should not be doing a "Save as" -- you should be doing a re-export/conversion.

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