Aiseesoft HD Converter for Mac

[bigcaat]

Hi.

I'm new here. I just bought Aiseesoft HD Converter for Mac. I tried the demo and it seemed to work fine, but it only will record 5 minutes, so I didn't see a size problem at the time.

Now, I've bought it, and yes, it's converting, but it's making the files huge. A 20 minute file is taking up almost 17 gigs. To me there seems to be no compression at all, or am I just misreading the situation?

I am trying to convert Nikon .mov files, to files that I can use in FCP6 without having to render every time I make a change. I found one blog from a couple of years ago that said use the "Apple ProRes 422(*mov) which I did. But it also says to use H.264/ACV MOV for the output format. But I don't see that as existing, and it seems I can only choose one or the other if I were to choose anything else with the H.264 compression. Yet, in properties, it states that FCP setting uses H.264. However, since they're so big, I need to know if they *can* be compressed more, or if I need to buy extra drives.

Can anyone help? By next week I'm going to have to start dumping more footage from four more classes, and I need to know which direction to go.

Thanks.
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[Baldrick]

APPLE ProRes is huge and can't be compressed more. Especially if your video is in HD.

[bigcaat]

Thanks for the info, Baldrick. Is there another codec I can use that will allow me to work with the file in FCP, without having to render it while working, that will create smaller files?