such_heights: amy and rory looking at a pile of post (fandom: vidding)
Amy ([personal profile] such_heights) wrote2010-03-13 11:10 pm

vidtech help!

eta: solved by the heroic [personal profile] thingswithwings

So, I vid on a Mac with MPEG Streamclip for the clip-making and Final Cut Express for the vidding, and I am having some trouble! I used to make .mov clips to import in FCE, but then I was informed that .dv files were much nicer, so I tried that. Except they are all jerky and I know not why!

Here is what I'm doing right now:

Open .avi in Streamclip, select in and out points etc, then file -> 'export to other formats'*, format: DV Stream, options: DVCPRO50, NTSC, Interlaced, 16:9.

The result is pretty, but jerky. Am I missing a trick, or is my computer just not up to processing it? Rendering etc doesn't seem to help any. Is it back to .mov for me?

*I would 'export to dv' but I can't figure out how to strip the sound either there or in FCE, which is kind of a problem.

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