Is it possible to convert Quicktime .mov format to mpeg, etc

[Emanef]

Is there any way of converting Quicktime movies to other formats, such as mpeg or avi or something?

Thanks!

[Rond66]

I use MAGIX video deLuxe 2.0.

Video and image formats: AVI (also non-compressed), MPEG-1/-2 (Ligos Motion Encoder), MPEG-4, DivX, Windows MediaTM, MOV (Quicktime Movie), MXV, MJPEG, BMP, JPG as well as MAGIX video deLuxe project files (for integrating into a new project).
Audio formats: WAV, Audio CDs (Ripping), MP3 and MIDI files.
Additional Export formats: Real MediaTM, rendered DV AVIs, Snapshot function (unlimited export of film motifs as BMP or JPG files).

[MOVIEGEEK]

TMPGEnc with QT.vfp plugin will convert to MPEG-1(free)MPEG-2(30 day trial).
Ulead VideoStudio supports and will convert to AVI,DV,MOV,MPEG-1/2,WMV
www.tmpgenc.net
www.ulead.com/vs/runme.htm

[Emanef]

Great thanks! Where do I get the qt.vfp plug in?

[Emanef]

S'ok! Got it!

Thanks guys....!

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[Emanef]

I'm having trouble getting the audio from the mov file. I've tried selecting seperate .mp2 and .m2v files and a combined .mpg, but none have the audio. Also, when I try to preview the audio in the set up there's nothing there. Any suggestions? I'm trying to get the Animatrix movies into a format to be able to put on a dvd-r for a friend.....

[Emanef]

Damn, this is so annoying!

I can get the video ok, but TMPGenc just gives silence for the audio....

[wobisch]

this is exactly the same problem that I have discovered before when I tried to convert the new Johnny Cash video "Hurt" from .mov to VCD-mpg in TMPGenc: I could not get the sound. In this case I extracted the sound from the audio CD - but that's not really a good solution....

Now I have also gotten the Animatrix movies from the web and in the next days I wanted to try this again. This time, however, I have already the problem that I can't hear the sound in Quicktime....

Can anybody please give some help here?
Thanks in advance,
Markus

[sdo]

I'm running into this exact problem with the Animatrix videos, and here's a tidbit of info that I discovered on the sound...

The Quicktime .mov files that don't work all have "MPEG-4 Audio" compression.

To see, in quicktime, go to Movie -> get movie properties and then select "Soundtrack" and "Format" in the window that pops up.

Anyone else find a workaround yet?

-S

[David K]

The only sure way to convert those Quicktime files is to use Quicktime Pro to convert them to uncompressed AVI and then convert that AVI to mpeg. Sometimes TMPegenc will do it directly but it is hit and miss.

[BadAstronaut]

I too had audio difficulties initially, but I have now succeeded in converting the 4 downloadable Animatrix movies from QT -> MPEG

The trick (for me at least) was to install the latest version of QuickTime, including the "Authoring Components" option. Then TMPGEnc w/the QT.vfp plugin did the trick on 3 of the 4 clips.

For some reason, THE SECOND RENAISSANCE PART 2 was silent after the title sequence. For that, I ended up using RADTools to convert the audio to a WAV, which I could then use to multiplex with the video in TMPGEnc.

[mpb]

Is there any way of converting Quicktime movies to other formats, such as mpeg or avi or something?

Thanks!

The suggestions already posted will work if you just need it done quick and dirty. For professional use, I have had the best output quality by importing the QT into Adobe Premiere and exporting the movie as a 48khz DV-AVI (or huffy AVI in some cases).

Good luck with your projects!!

[wobisch]

I was searching for a free (or at least cheap) solution how I could convert my Quicktime movies to VCD or SVCD. Although I am sure that there are some "nice" and expensive solutions out there (involving Adobe Premiere or the full Quicktime version) this is not what I was searching for.

Now I managed to convert the first Animatrix movie to VCD.
Here is my solution - it's not "nice", but it works - and I am happy with the result:

Software needed:
Quicktime (free version - last update!)
RadTools (free)
Audio Editor - for recording and editing (I use Acoustica which is quite cheap)
maybe HUFYUF codec (for intermediate step - free)
TMPGenc (free)

i) get the picture:
In RadTools, open the .mov file and press "convert" (to .avi).
If RadTools converts both, the picture and the sound, then you can skip step ii).
For the Animatrix movies, however, RadTools will tell you that it can't recognize the sound. Now you have to specify a format (use uncompressed for shorter clips - or: HUFYUF). This will give you an .avi file that contains the picture but no sound. It is helpful here, to note the length of the picture (you need this in step ii).

ii) get the sound:
Open the audio editor and prepare a new recording. Make sure that in the mixer of your soundcard you have enabled "recording from wav".
Open the .mov file in Quicktime - while playing, set the levels for the recording.
Press "record" in the audio editor - then start the movie in Quicktime. After a few seconds (preferably in some loud part) press "|<" in Quicktime to jump to the start of the movie (without stopping it before). This gives you a strong transition between the loud part and the beginning of the movie file which allows you later to clearly identify the exact point where the audio for the movie has started.
When the movie is over, stop the recording and exit Quicktime. Now you zoom in the waveform to identify the exact beginning by looking at the skip in the waveform at the point where you restarted the movie. Delete everything before that point. Then go to the end and delete the silence at the end.
Now you compare the length of the audio file to the length of the video. Sometimes it happened to me that my audio was longer than the video. I assume that this was caused by some delay during playback of the movie. In this case I repeated the audio recording until it was fine.
If you like you can now process the audio - normalize, or further stuff like EQ or compression (not recommended when you don't exactly know what you are doing).

iii) combine video and audio and convert to mpeg:
This should be trivial. In TMPEGenc you just open the video and the audio files and select the template (NTSC/PAL VideoCD - or SVCD). Hit "ENCODE" and you're done.

While this solution is as good as it gets for the picture, it's clear that it's not perfect for the audio part (since it involves the D/A and again the A/D converters of your soundcard). But as I see there is no cheap way around this and for me the quality is still very good.

However, if somebody knows a better (free or inexpensive) and easier solution (i.e. without manually recording), I would be happy to hear about this.

Markus

[xsbs52x]

I, too, have been trying to convert the Animatrix into a VCD. I use an old version of TMPGENC and I have found the the QT reader file is most compatible with OLD versions. I have not been able to get it to work with the latest version. In the Animatrix, Renisance part 1 and 2, I only got audio until the title screen ended, then it went silent. I had no other way of getting the audio so I used Sound Recorder to record the sound as I played the Animatrix in the background.... Primitive but effective. I then used that as my audio source and the .mov as my video source in my OLD versin of TMPGENC. It was fairly easy and only took an extra ten minutes for record the audio. Hope that helps you guys.

[jester1x]

Thanks for the tips guys! Appreciate it! I was finally able to convert those two "Renaissance" episodes into mpeg2 with audio! I used radtools to extract the sound as a wav file. After encoding both episodes with TMPGEnc, I was pleasantly surprised. The audio and video were in perfect sync! Now, it's tiime to put all of the episodes onto a dvdr. Always learn a new trick on this site. Very exciting! Thanks again!

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