converting Quick Time

[butterflies]

Hello,
I have edited a film with Avid Mediacomposer. I want to author it in Encore. The problem is that Encore does not do a proper transcoding of a Quick Time reference or Quick Time movie. So what I need is a tool that converts a Quick Time Movie into High Quality MPEG2 (ready for burning). Or would it be better to create an .avi in Avid Mediacomposer and convert that to MPEG2?
What would be a good recommendation for a cheap but good converter? I don't want to spend hundreds on Sorenzen squeeze or comparable.
Thanks,
Rob

[Baldrick]

Moving you to our conversion section.

You can get very good quality using FREE converters like HC encoder, use it togheter with a gui like avstodvd and convert to mpeg2.

Or just export to avi in avid and import in encore, it has a good mpeg2 encoder also.

[butterflies]

Thanks for the recommendations.
I was looking at both links. Why do I need both HC and AVSTODVD?

[Baldrick]

Because hcencoder can only import avs and d2v script files. You can then either make an avisynth script avs file yourself OR use an all-in-one solution like avstodvd and let it do it for you.

[ricardouk]

avisynth + Quenc

1 - rename the video.mov to video.hdmov

2 -

DirectShowSource("video.hdmov")
Lanczos4Resize(720,576)

3 - feed the avs scrit on to quenc, i prefer quenc as it can encode to mpeg2 and ac3 at the same time, or output in separate elementary streams

[butterflies]

Because hcencoder can only import avs and d2v script files. You can then either make an avisynth script avs file yourself OR use an all-in-one solution like avstodvd and let it do it for you.

I have installed HC and AVStoDVD. When I load the .mov file into AVStoDVD (options: Elementary MPEG2 Stream) and press start then I get Error: Avisynth open Failure: FFVideoSource: No Video track found.
What am I doing wrong?

[butterflies]

It looks like AVStoDVD cannot do .mov. It doesn't work. I get the error in previous message or when I preview it says in big red letters that No suitable output format found. I tried other formats like .m2t and avi and that works fine but not .mov.

[_MrC_]

AVStoDVD can process mov files, only if a suitable directshow audio codec is installed. You can try with ffdshow or with Quicktime Alternative.



Bye

[butterflies]

Ffdshow is on my pc and enabled. AVStoDVD asks for it to use it and I allow.

[_MrC_]

Have you tried with Quicktime Alternative?



Bye

[butterflies]

I can't install QTAlternative. I will have to uninstall the regular/official Quicktime Player. My Avid Media Composer software will complain about these changes, I fear.
Don't you thinks so?

[ricardouk]

avisynth + Quenc

1 - rename the video.mov to video.hdmov

2 -

DirectShowSource("video.hdmov")
Lanczos4Resize(720,576)

3 - feed the avs scrit on to quenc, i prefer quenc as it can encode to mpeg2 and ac3 at the same time, or output in separate elementary streams

[poisondeathray]

Another source filter option in avisynth is qtsource, which utilizes the installed QT on your system.

QTInput("video.mov")

Quicktime Reference might be giving the other suggestions problems. You could export a lossless format wrapped in mov instead e.g. uncompressed, png, animation , or even visually lossless like DNxHD or ProRes

On windows it would be better to export lossless AVI from Avid eg. lagarith, huffyuv, UT etc...