Hello!

I have a problem that I'm hoping you all can help me solve. I've done some research on the net, but my limited knowledge about video formats and NLE's has left me in the dark. Hopefully someone here can help.


I need to do two things:

1) take an .m2v video and marry it to a separate stereo track, then export it as a .mov file that doesn't exceed 100 megs. And, of course, I'd prefer that the video quality be compromised as little as possible.

Also, I have a PC, but no NLE.

Based on my research, it seems one way would be to convert the .m2v to more common format, import it into a NLE, import the audio, then export. This seems a bit tedious and I'm afraid the video would suffer from alot of generation loss.

In a perfect world, there's a PC-compatible freeware NLE that works with .m2v files and can export as .MOV's. I downloaded "MPEG_Streamclip" which looks great, but I can't import the audio so...no help.


now for situation two:

2) I have an .MOV file that I need to marry to an 5.1 AC3 file (I also have the six original channels). As with the above situation, I would like to export everything as a .MOV with little to no loss of quality.


If anyone could help me out or at least point me in the right direction, I would be grateful.

Many thanks,

-David