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AVI to Quicktime conversion possible?
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Join Date: Apr 2000
Location: Minneapolis, MN USA
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My wife and I recently bought a digital camera that allows for creating short (1.2 minute) full motion movies with sound. Once transferred via usb to the Mac they show up as .AVI format movies. Quicktime plays these movies, however, iMovie does not allow the reading of this format. I found a utility on the net that allows alleged QT to AVI conversion, but it claims that it doesn't recognize the compression format (admittedly, QT to AVI utility appears old). Is there a way to convert these AVI movies to QT format for use with iMovie? The movie format works surprisingly well but we'd love to edit things in iMovie so that we can cut/paste, etc.
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Join Date: Apr 2000
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An additional thought: the QT to AVI format allows for two options: (1) to try and convert and create a new file and (2) to convert the existing file. The first option gives the error indicating it cannot make a new file indicating that the compression format is unrecognized. The 2nd option essentially ruins the file as after that playing it produces audio but a completely white screen for video.
The camera is a Fuji. I may check their website for information on that.
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AVI is just a wrapper. What codec is the Fuji actually using? Cinepak, Indeo, MJPEG, what? Check the INFO in Quicktime when the movie is playing. It may only be a .avi suffix ie: a naming convention thing.
iMovie only handles DV codec files. You would need to convert/export the .avi's to AppleDV codec and then manually place them in the file folder within iMovie.
Surely you want .avi to Quicktime not Quicktime to .avi anyway.
Also get Quicktime 4.1.2PRO ($29) if you don't already have it, that'll make exporting/converting easier/possible/inexpensive.
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Join Date: Apr 2000
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Interesting. If I do an INFO, it doesn't say
anything at all. "No information available." If I pull up "info", (command-I), all it says is that it's a 320x200 format movie. Weird. Ideas?
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Join Date: Mar 2000
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You need to look harder in the Apple-I created Info window. See the two pull-down menus at the top? Play with those, try all the combinations. You will find more info like the time, compression, size... Set the first one to "video track", then make the second one "format" - this is the most useful one for what you need.
I bet that the reason that program you mentioned makes a white screen is bedcause it was designed for a way earlier version of QT. You don't need it anyway, obviously, so don't sweat it.
Tell us what you find out. 
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