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Simulacra
3rd September 2005, 22:50
Hi.

This is my first post to these forums. I have a delicate problem, which I do not quite know how to handle despite two weeks of forum and web searching and I'd be grateful for any help with this.

Here goes: I have filmed a long video for a game project which I have imported and edited in iMovie. It seemed a good idea at the time. Since iMovie cannot export to MPEG, I figured that I'd export as uncompressed AVI and then encode it with TMPEG. Problem was: the movie went black after about two minutes. I figured that this has something to do with the 2GB limitation in AVI, so I checked if iMovie could export to a variant of AVI that would work with larger file sizes. The darned thing couldn't.

Desperate, I exported as uncompressed .DV and even .QT, but have had little success encoding these into MPEG. TMPEG does only accept AVI. What to do? Are there other encoders?

:confused:

I do not have any money to buy software right now, so please do not recommend any pricey stuff.

ricardo.santos
5th September 2005, 22:00
have you got Ulead video studio or Edit Studio?

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setarip_old
6th September 2005, 01:09
TMPEG does only accept AVI.

If you install the "QT Reader" plugin, TMPGEnc will accept .MOV format files as input.

(It also accepts MPEG files as input)

By the way, are you CERTAIN that your initial IMovie creation plays properly and doesn't also go black after two minutes?

Also, IMovie should be able to use the 3IVX cross platform codec...