bbg
2nd August 2004, 12:28
Hi,
This is my first post but I’ve been browsing these forums for ages. So far I couldn’t find answers to my problem so that’s why I ask for help here. Feel free to move it to a more appropriate forum once an answer takes shape.
I’m using a Sony digital camera with “MPEG VX”, i.e 640x480 30fps movie recording. The quality is adequate, no match for DV yet but very handy to have with you at all times. I take lots of short clips with it and would like to convert them from the space-wasting MPEG1 (around 12 MBit/s with uncompressed audio) to XVid (around 2MBit/s with MP3 audio) with as few manual steps as possible.
Currently, I use Virtual Dub to open each clip, name it and save it elsewhere (I would like to keep them separate). However, with dozens of short clips this becomes very tedious very quickly. It also loses the date and time of the recording unless you manually edit it – this is important for a timeline view in Photoshop Album SE.
Ideally I would like to script (and log) the entire process:
Take all movie files on the memory stick
Convert them according to preset preferences, possibly including a filter, keeping the filenames and restoring the original time of the recording (into a temp folder)
Delete originals (to make space on the stick)
Write it back to the memory stick (so that it can be read in by the Album software)
Optional from here on:
Launch Album software (optional)
Read in pictures and converted movies
Clean up movies in temp folder
Any ideas?
Regards, bbg
This is my first post but I’ve been browsing these forums for ages. So far I couldn’t find answers to my problem so that’s why I ask for help here. Feel free to move it to a more appropriate forum once an answer takes shape.
I’m using a Sony digital camera with “MPEG VX”, i.e 640x480 30fps movie recording. The quality is adequate, no match for DV yet but very handy to have with you at all times. I take lots of short clips with it and would like to convert them from the space-wasting MPEG1 (around 12 MBit/s with uncompressed audio) to XVid (around 2MBit/s with MP3 audio) with as few manual steps as possible.
Currently, I use Virtual Dub to open each clip, name it and save it elsewhere (I would like to keep them separate). However, with dozens of short clips this becomes very tedious very quickly. It also loses the date and time of the recording unless you manually edit it – this is important for a timeline view in Photoshop Album SE.
Ideally I would like to script (and log) the entire process:
Take all movie files on the memory stick
Convert them according to preset preferences, possibly including a filter, keeping the filenames and restoring the original time of the recording (into a temp folder)
Delete originals (to make space on the stick)
Write it back to the memory stick (so that it can be read in by the Album software)
Optional from here on:
Launch Album software (optional)
Read in pictures and converted movies
Clean up movies in temp folder
Any ideas?
Regards, bbg