Ben Waggoner (ben@terran.com)
Fri, 11 Jun 1999 23:05:46 -0700
Bill Barrett suffers from the AVI -> QT transcode blues
At 12:07 AM -0700 6/11/99, Related to digital video files on PCs and
MACs wrote:
>What problem I see with QT3 locally on my PC is ---none. I can make a short
>video, with any of the codecs on the system via the edit-render provision in
>the edit program, and I can play it back just fine. When I then take this
>video on a Jaz disk to a friend's --who is Mac based-- we first copy it over
>to his high-speed A/V drives, and he can't play it with QT3 or anything else.
> We have supposedly stuck to codecs on the PC that he also has on the
>Mac--even to the same rev number.
At 12:07 AM -0700 6/11/99, Related to digital video files on PCs and
MACs wrote:
>Is ANYone actually doing this? ...and I DON'T mean with anything OTHER than
>full-speed, full-frame TV?
Bill,
I'm happy to say that I've done this plenty of time. Now,
there are plenty of codecs that don't exist on both platforms, but
I've had great luck in transcoding PC None codec AVI files to Mac
plenty of times. Alas, there aren't any lossless or near-losses
compressed formats in AVI, so high quality pretty much required you
used None until recently. Now we have Indeo 5 support in QT for Mac,
which is capable of getting pretty near lossless, as long as YUV-9
colorspace doesn't mess you up. I must admit, in the interest of
full disclosure, that I haven't tested 640x480 30fps Indeo transcode
yet, but I bet it will work. Make sure you have the Indeo component
installed (it's not part of the standard QT4).
Ben Waggoner
Director of Consulting Services
Terran Interactive
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