I have some video encoded in lossless Lagarith on a PC and need to get it to Final Cut on a Mac in the least lossy manner possible. Any suggestions on codec to use? I won't be able to work with Lagarith on the Mac so I need to convert it to something reasonable through virtualdub then move it over. DV-AVI my best bet? Do any editors on the Mac platform support pure uncompressed YUY2 video?
Try StreamFab Downloader and download from Netflix, Amazon, Youtube! Or Try DVDFab and copy Blu-rays!
+ Reply to Thread
Results 1 to 8 of 8
Thread
-
-
As an aside, I just gave up and switched my editing back to the PC. The Mac sure is a great platform, but it appears impossible to move lossless video recorded on one platform over to another...
-
it has to be in .mov container for the mac. vdub doesn't support .mov export
you could use something minimally lossy like dnxhd (dnxhd is YUY2 4:2:2) , or lossless like uncompressed , animation codec or .png (these are RGB)
you could use ffmpeg to do the conversion (you might need to feed the lagarith through an avisynth script , because I think ffmpeg doesn't decode lagarith) -
Tried DNxHD but can't say I had much luck getting it to work in Snow Leopard, and furthermore I'm not seeing it show up as a compression format in Virtualdub...
-
Last edited by poisondeathray; 12th Mar 2010 at 19:43.
-
FCP would be happy with Apple Intermediate format; that's about as lossless as you can get but still with some minimal compression to keep the size down. Anything more compressed than that and you may find you're rendering constantly in order to preview your edited footage.
Similar Threads
-
lagarith - premiere - lagarith (without colorspace conversion)
By codemaster in forum EditingReplies: 10Last Post: 1st May 2012, 12:26 -
transfer video from windows to mac
By flannob in forum Newbie / General discussionsReplies: 3Last Post: 21st Mar 2012, 02:41 -
Mac HFS to Windows NTFS - how?
By jeanpave in forum ComputerReplies: 7Last Post: 16th Nov 2010, 20:34 -
Lagarith on Windows 7 Ultimate
By rhegedus in forum Video ConversionReplies: 3Last Post: 4th Apr 2009, 19:11 -
Need to get .dmg from windows to mac
By mtb2k in forum ComputerReplies: 4Last Post: 30th Aug 2007, 10:45