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quicktime pro exporting question
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what do i have to export an .avi file as in quicktime to make it editable in imovie and thus burnable in idvd?
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iMovie's native format is .dv (DV Stream). iMovie 3 has the new ability to convert other formats to this one after you choose to import them (but because of QT's quirks, mpeg files will be converted sans audio)
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Quicktime Pro lets you convert them with sound to .mov and .mp4
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Originally posted by Nivag:
Quicktime Pro lets you convert them with sound to .mov and .mp4
Originally posted by Uncle Skeleton:
no, it doesn't
If you have all the right codecs it does let you save the movie as a Quicktime .mov file. If it's a DivX file you *can* pass-through the video with a bit of trickery, but you will still have to re-compress the audio if you want an MPEG-4 file.
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Originally posted by Nivag:
Quicktime Pro lets you convert them with sound to .mov and .mp4
oh. ok. I thought you were responding to my mpeg comment, in which case I'm quite certain converting mpeg{1,2} to anything else (in QuickTime, which is apparently what iMovie uses for conversion) will lose the sound. Unless you meant simply opening an mpeg and saving, which is technically a mov file with an mpeg track, but that file is useless because now only QuickTime can read it (not other mpeg-reading software), and QuickTime still can't edit or convert it (with sound), and there's no way to get it back the way it was.
But I see now you might have been responding directly to the first post, in which case I don't know why you mentioned sound. Also, iMovie treats mov and mp4 the same as avi, mpg or any other media type it understands (besides DV). It must "import," them all, converting to DV Stream.
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Actually, you can recover such an ill-fated mpeg. Open it in Hex Edit, search for 00 00 01 BA, the mpeg signature. Delete everything back to the beginning of the file, save, change the File Type to MPEG and you have the mpeg back. Works if all you did was open the mpeg and use "Save," or download it via the QT Plug-in and use "Save As Quicktime Movie" instead of Save As Source.
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Originally posted by Nap:
Open it in Hex Edit, search for 00 00 01 BA, the mpeg signature. Delete everything back to the beginning of the file, save, change the File Type to MPEG and you have the mpeg back.
Hey, thanks for the tip! I've always wondered how to extract an MPEG file saved in a Quicktime .mov.
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