sybariten
16th August 2004, 12:49
OK this has nothing to do with the feature film scene but i hope its ok anyway!
Here's the deal, i get quicktime .MOV clips off a digital camera now and then. I am planning to use these clips in short video films. I figure the most probable format i will be working in is normal TV PAL, and the MOV clips are just 320 wide or something. Plus, they are 15 fps.
Now, the more i think about Premiere, i realize i wont need to prepare these clips much at all, but let me at least present what i originally wanted: I figured i wanted some easy standard method that i could always use to convert these clips
* from the horrible MOV into something more useful
* from the small size interpolated up to my aimed size
* from my low fps up to my interpoladed 25 fps
The coolest thing would be if i had small and simple commandline tools to do this, much as i'd solve a lot of stuff under unix. However, i've had problems just doing the first MOV conversion:
There are a´couple of QT converters that are commandline and that people talk about in different places on the net, i've tried those and the result was just a black screen in both cases. I figure my MOV files may not be standard quicktime files. When analyzing in GSpot (AFTER using any of those two commandline tools), i read something about "JPEG DIB" . Could this be some twist on MJPEG?
Any ideas on where i should start? Is there any software that can do these conversions with a quick wrapper script or so, without the need of going through three GUIs ?
I figure , in a way now, that this is maybe not the right way to go after all, coz i guess i dont wanna convert from QT compressed to some other compressed format such as mpeg, and THEN go into premiere and thus lose a generation.... but for previews it would be very practical.
If anyone understood what i asked about, any tips is appreciated.
cheers
Here's the deal, i get quicktime .MOV clips off a digital camera now and then. I am planning to use these clips in short video films. I figure the most probable format i will be working in is normal TV PAL, and the MOV clips are just 320 wide or something. Plus, they are 15 fps.
Now, the more i think about Premiere, i realize i wont need to prepare these clips much at all, but let me at least present what i originally wanted: I figured i wanted some easy standard method that i could always use to convert these clips
* from the horrible MOV into something more useful
* from the small size interpolated up to my aimed size
* from my low fps up to my interpoladed 25 fps
The coolest thing would be if i had small and simple commandline tools to do this, much as i'd solve a lot of stuff under unix. However, i've had problems just doing the first MOV conversion:
There are a´couple of QT converters that are commandline and that people talk about in different places on the net, i've tried those and the result was just a black screen in both cases. I figure my MOV files may not be standard quicktime files. When analyzing in GSpot (AFTER using any of those two commandline tools), i read something about "JPEG DIB" . Could this be some twist on MJPEG?
Any ideas on where i should start? Is there any software that can do these conversions with a quick wrapper script or so, without the need of going through three GUIs ?
I figure , in a way now, that this is maybe not the right way to go after all, coz i guess i dont wanna convert from QT compressed to some other compressed format such as mpeg, and THEN go into premiere and thus lose a generation.... but for previews it would be very practical.
If anyone understood what i asked about, any tips is appreciated.
cheers