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General Interest => Let It Bleed => Topic started by: try another castle on March 04, 2007, 10:04:00 PM

Title: good software for media conversion.
Post by: try another castle on March 04, 2007, 10:04:00 PM

Hey, guys, I need some help.

I'm looking for a good piece of software that can convert .flv files to .mov.

Someone suggested Cinema Forge, and after looking at it, there were some concerns I had. One, the uninstall is weird. (One has to hit the question mark on the interface. Add/remove programs won't do it.) Two, it installs two activeX components onto your system. Yucky.

It's basically a front end for ffmpeg. Ideally, I would really just like to use ffmpeg on its own. It's command line, which is fine. However, I don't have the time to figure out how to install the libraries (It's been a while since I programmed in C) and then learn the syntax. (In addition, I'm having a hard time figuring out how to download it. The home page has links to other packages, but not ffmpeg.)

Most other converters I've seen out there include a watermark for their unpaid version, or a time limitation. Does anyone else have any suggestions? Or.. have you used Cinema Forge (freeware version) and found it to be good?

This is for the video I'm doing on TBS facilities.

Title: good software for media conversion.
Post by: Antigen on March 04, 2007, 10:41:49 PM

Wicki has a page on FFmpeg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FFmpeg (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FFmpeg)

Saw a link to doze binaries and some other good stuff. Hope it's helpful.

Title: good software for media conversion.
Post by: try another castle on March 04, 2007, 11:04:39 PM

Thanks, Ginger.

It's a bit on the intimidating side. I don't remember a damn thing about programming or building header libraries. But the windows help page fortunately has a list of the documentation and binary links in .zip format instead of .tar. Don't know if I'm going to take the plunge and build it, though.

It's fucking ridiculous that After Effects, especially now that Adobe has bought macromedia, doesn't import .flv files. I can render an .flv to .mov file out of flash, but no audio will be exported because there is no waveform. What a fucking pain in the ass.

Title: good software for media conversion.
Post by: Anonymous on March 05, 2007, 11:20:39 AM

Anybody know how to fix a vcr that plays the audio but not the video ?

Title: good software for media conversion.
Post by: try another castle on March 06, 2007, 02:23:32 AM

Don't put in tapes covered with syrup.

Title: good software for media conversion.
Post by: Anonymous on March 06, 2007, 09:13:31 AM

Oh..... DON'T put in tapes covered in syrup.... damn, damn, damn...