how can I convert captured hd from happauge win-tv 1600 to .mov or .avi?

[Theebs]

Hi, I will try to be as clear as possible.

I make some football highlights and for the last four years I have been capturing from my Standard Tivo via s-video and composite audio. I have always captured in mpeg-2 at 6000 kilobits a second. I did this so that I would have less render time when putting the games on disks, one disk per half. I then would cut out plays that I wanted and render them as a DV AVI codec to edit and make highlight videos.

I have discovered torrents and the hd rips many use. I have downloaded a number of them this year from another site. They are .h265 mp4 files. I have not been able to rerender them into a codec that I can bring into my Avid Express Pro. I use Avid Express Pro to edit. It is very particular and will only import quicktime or dv avi files, or avid codecs via sorensen squeeze.

I have tried to render a cowboys-bears game every way I know how with squeeze, quicktime pro and sony vegas. Only the audio renders.

Today I bought the Happague win-tv 1600. Set it up and it works perfectly. Records hd very nicely.

So after all that here is my question. What format is the hd record from the card exactly. Mpeg 2? How can I convert this file to a .mov quicktime file or .avi without losing too much quality or any hopefully?

I am looking for reccomendations on Which software to use to do this and which codecs you guys think will accomplish my goal. I would like to be able to edit in the hd format, I need to find a way to render it to something usable in avid with the same quality as the .h264 and xvid torrents.

any and all help I really appreciate.

Thanks

Todd

[Baldrick]

You could try mpeg streamclip and convert to mov with some codec that doesn't compress that much.

[Theebs]

Thank you I will give that a shot!

Thanks again.

Todd

[Theebs]

Just wanted to say thanks.

I downloaded mpeg streamclip and then installed the mpeg 2 playback in quicktime.

It worked like a charm. I took the 720p capture from fox, rendered it into a quicktime 720 file and then brought it into my other computer and imported it in avid with the dvcpro hd codec.

Thanks alot Baldrick! I cant tell you how much I appreciate it.

now I have to find a compression setting that will work!!

Todd

[Theebs]

here are some quick screen caps from this afternoon of how it works out.