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Ghitulescu
27th September 2010, 10:52
I did a search on this forum and google too, however, apart from noise, not really the info I need.

Last year NASA published 15 of the small movies for the 40th Anniversary of Apollo 11. I downloaded most of them with the intention to put them on a BDR/E and also compare with the ARTE HD footage, also in 720p, but PAL (50p) vs NTSC (NASA, 29.97p).

The files are MOV. I could see half of them with VLC and any other player, the other half wasn't decoded by any of the players. FourCC is APCN, which must correspond to Apple ProRes 422.

All the discussions were more or less held between software developers and professionals in the field, mostly mac owners...

Now the question: How can one convert them the MOV files to TS or any other format that is recognised by a BD authoring software like multiAVCHD? The video is APCN, the audio is AAC, the container is MOV, I don't own a mac ....
What codecs and/or video-converters are needed?

Thanks in advance

Atak_Snajpera
27th September 2010, 14:43
you can always check if FFMPEG supports this format...

smok3
27th September 2010, 14:54
besides ffmpeg, there is quicktime plugin for virtualdub (Quicktime.vdplugin) and there are few for avisynth as well.

poisondeathray
27th September 2010, 14:54
ffmpeg does not support


on windows, install windows prores decoder (from apple, free) , and use avisynth + qtsource (problem is avisynth is 8-bit)

or most NLE's can decode prores if you have the prores decoder installed

Kurtnoise
27th September 2010, 15:21
http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=153197

Edit: you should try also ffmbc (http://code.google.com/p/ffmbc/updates/list)

Ghitulescu
27th September 2010, 17:34
ffmpeg does not support
on windows, install windows prores decoder (from apple, free) , and use avisynth + qtsource (problem is avisynth is 8-bit)

or most NLE's can decode prores if you have the prores decoder installed
Thanks, I'll do that.

http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=153197

Edit: you should try also ffmbc (http://code.google.com/p/ffmbc/updates/list)

I know both of these links (I did my homeworks ;)), but I was still confused about some issues. FFMBC is missing, found earlier with my good old friend google. Well, I'll seek the decoder, tomorrow.

smok3
27th September 2010, 19:32
bit ot;
any experience with AVID DNxHD and final cut pro?

Ghitulescu
28th September 2010, 08:13
No, I'm a windows guy.