Bob Currier (rcurrier@synthetic-ap.com)
Wed, 16 Jun 1999 14:13:17 -0700
On 6/16/99 12:06 AM, MoovyMagic@aol.com wrote:
>All I wanna do is take an AVI that is full-spec and kosher and take it to a
>Mac, and have it still be full-spec and kosher.
The Mac won't read the AVI built with the EditBay codec, so somewhere
along the line you have to convert it.
Have you tried using QuickTime Pro's QuickTime Player on the PC to export
the AVI to a QuickTime movie using a lossless codec like Animation at
100%, moving that .mov to the Mac, then importing to M100? The QT will be
huge, but if it works you can play with other codecs until you find the
quality level you can accept.
Seems to me the problem is that the PC won't generate M100 files and the
Mac won't read EditBay files, so you have to use an intermediate format,
converting to and from it on either side. Since you're transcoding, you
should use a lossless or nearly so codec for the intermediate step.
I've now gone EditBay AVI to lossless QT to DV-stream QT and it works
fine. Not sure why having M100 as the last step would be a problem. (When
I say "works fine," I mean with the perceptible but not objectionable
artifacts one would expect going MJPEG to DV.)
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