[Macpartners] Help converting .mov to mpeg?

[Kerem B Limon]

QuickTime Pro can do this, as well as other various video editing tools. What
you need is a tool that will do re-encoding, and an encoding version of the
MPEG codec of your choice.

QuickTime Pro includes MPEG-1 support, and can create such output. Final Cut Pro
can do the same plus MPEG-2. You will almost certainly want to use the raw
footage or raw versions rather than the compressed Sorenson (I'm assuming,
since you said QT files) for quality when re-encoding to MPEG.

DVD spec requires MPEG-2 video. S/X/VCD will deal with MPEG-1 or -2.

There is one free MPEG-2 codec for which I cannot remember the URL now, but I
think it was bbMPEG. Go to versiontracker or macupdate.com and search for
'mpeg'. Also, Google is your friend.

-Kerem


Quoting Scott Ehrlich <scott at MIT.EDU>:

> I have a few large Quicktime/MOV files captured from a camcorder on my G3
> via iMovie I want to convert to MPEG so I can save space and have a
> hopefully easier time burning to DVD.
> 
> I prefer a free utility, but will consider anything.
> 
> Ideas?  Links?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Scott
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Kerem B. Limon
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