[NexXtTime]

I have Perian, and can play the files that my camera produces, only problem: I can't edit them . (Except the first few seconds of video)

This is my camera http://www.insignia-products.com/pc-...cd-screen.aspx

Can someone tell me how to edit w/o converting? Note on the website, it says "File Format: MPEG4 (H.264) in AVI wrapper"

I'm sooo confused

[TETENAL]

Do you have Flip4Mac installed? If that is handling the video (maybe due to the use of a MS audio codec), that might explain why you only get a few seconds of editing. That is a limitation of the free version of Flip4Mac.

Open a movie in QuickTime Player and open the Info palette to see which codecs are used.

[Spheric Harlot]

handbrake.fr or ffmpegX should be able to convert the material to something editable.

[NexXtTime]

Originally Posted by TETENAL 

Do you have Flip4Mac installed? If that is handling the video (maybe due to the use of a MS audio codec), that might explain why you only get a few seconds of editing. That is a limitation of the free version of Flip4Mac.

Open a movie in QuickTime Player and open the Info palette to see which codecs are used.

Flip4Mac is now installed, but the problem started before I downloaded FfM.

[NexXtTime]

Originally Posted by Spheric Harlot 

handbrake.fr or ffmpegX should be able to convert the material to something editable.

"Can someone tell me how to edit w/o converting?"

[NexXtTime]

Originally Posted by TETENAL 

Open a movie in QuickTime Player and open the Info palette to see which codecs are used.

Here's the info:

[TETENAL]

It might not be possible to edit without converting, but if you use QuickTime Pro you can export to mp4 and pass-though the video track, so it doesn't need to be re-encoded and there is no quality loss. Select AAC as audio codec.

If you could upload a sample movie we could have a look at it and try ourselves.

[Spheric Harlot]

Originally Posted by NexXtTime 

"Can someone tell me how to edit w/o converting?"

"No."

[NexXtTime]

Originally Posted by Spheric Harlot 

"No."

Thank you anyway, I appreciate your post.

[NexXtTime]

Originally Posted by TETENAL 

It might not be possible to edit without converting, but if you use QuickTime Pro you can export to mp4 and pass-though the video track, so it doesn't need to be re-encoded and there is no quality loss. Select AAC as audio codec.

If you could upload a sample movie we could have a look at it and try ourselves.

Here's a sample video, the shortest one I found:

http://localhostr.com/files/9107a9/CLIP0012.AVI

I tried to export as a pass through mpeg-4 but it's grayed out

[cgc]

The link you provided had the following line 2/3 of way down screen:

[NexXtTime]

Originally Posted by cgc 

The link you provided had the following line 2/3 of way down screen:

I tried it, it was complete crap, it didn't even work

Thank you for the suggestion, but I'd like to work in FCE

[cgc]

Originally Posted by NexXtTime 

I tried it, it was complete crap, it didn't even work

Thank you for the suggestion, but I'd like to work in FCE

Had to ask