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So what do I use for WMV, RM, MPEG, AVI Video Editing?
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I have Final Cut Pro 4.5 but of course that does not access source files I already have... I need to be able to edit video I already have on my drive in common formats like WMV, RM, AVI etc.
I like to just play around and make music videos as well as family video's and stuff and sometimes I get the videos from family members already in one format.
I also like to make anime music videos and thats mainly in divx or wmv formats on the web... so i need help.
What can I use?
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Quciktime Pro and the plugins for WM, Real, MPEG. and AVI. I'm not sure about Realvideo though.
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I have Quicktime Pro. I never though to try it for video editing though... never gave me the impression it had the tools or interface for it...
I guess I can give it a try but I am used to Vegas Video is there anything like it for Mac?
(Last edited by Cross; Jul 3, 2006 at 08:21 PM
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Anyone? Quicktime def does not do what I need.
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If you install the right components, QT will open most files, and FCP opens whatever QT does. There's divx, flip4mac and a few others (those should get you 90% of the way there). There's no way to edit Real Media though that I know of. Sometimes the problem is corrupt files, not standards, in which case you might have to re-encode them first with VLC or ffmpeg. These will be rare.
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I am having some problems with AVI but I will continue trying with FCP My friend helped me with the upgrade to version 5 but now I need to find more SD Ram for my TiBook.
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hmmm...
for simple editing I prefer to use PVid, but don't know will it help u if u wanna create a high-quality home movie 
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Try using iSquint to convert your videos into a format that FCP can understand.
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Originally Posted by Stogieman
Try using iSquint to convert your videos into a format that FCP can understand.
Definitely. If you are trying to edit together RM and WMV files natively it will very likely cause nothing but grief.
Bear in mind that compressed formats like RM, WMV, MPEG, etc., are normally only used as destination or delivery formats, ie. what you encode a finshed video to once it has been edited. Sure, it is possible to use WMV as a high-bandwidth, broadcast-quality codec, and of course the HDV format is based on MPEG-2. But in the long run you are going to have a much easier time converting everything to DV and then editing it in your app of choice (iMovie, FCP, Avid, etc).
I had a corporate project where all the source material was in MPEG-1 format (ugh). We tried a couple of different workflows to edit natively in MPEG, but in the end I just converted everything to DV with MPEG Streamclip and did it all in FCP.
When you have your finished edit, then you can encode it to WMV, DivX or whatever.
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