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Fraps to iMovie?

EchoEcho ski-bapba-dapModerator, Administrator admin
edited March 2011 in Help / Advice Forum
Ugh. I hate goddamn video codecs.

So I have random movies from whatever format Fraps uses. iMovie can't read these. My first attempt was to use VirtualDub to save them as old-format AVI, but that would take a source file from 4 gigs to 20(!) gigs, which isn't really acceptable.

So my next idea was to convert them to h.264, which iMovie most certainly can read. But I can't find any good converters. Using some random crap right now that goes at a wonderful 1.16 fps with the converting.

Anyone got better ideas, or know of a decent converter?

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  • Vater5BVater5B Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    If you can open the videos in VLC Player, you can use the Streaming/Exporting wizard in there to convert the videos to MP4.

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  • FantasmaFantasma Registered User regular
    edited March 2011
    You still can use virtualdub and the Divx codec to transcode the avi files to a smaller file size without losing quality, I am surprised that iMovie cannot read the avi container.

    If you prefer, you can stop by www.videohelp.com and read the tutorials there and decide what is the best course of action.

    Good luck.

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  • furlionfurlion Riskbreaker Lea MondeRegistered User regular
    edited March 2011
    I will second Virtual Dub. There is no way any reasonable codec is going to end up with a larger file size then Fraps. Fraps is intentionally largely uncompressed. Like the above person suggested try the Divx codec or one of the other free ones. There are several large codec packs out there such as the k-lite codec pack with the h.264 codec that work with virtual dub.

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  • EchoEcho ski-bap ba-dapModerator, Administrator admin
    edited March 2011
    furlion wrote: »
    There is no way any reasonable codec is going to end up with a larger file size then Fraps.

    Sure there is. Fraps is near-lossless; then there's raw format.

    Turns out iMovie is shit anyway, so I might just buy some cheap edition of Sony Vegas instead and do Lagarith for intermediate work before the final h.264 pass in VirtualDub.

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  • BarrakkethBarrakketh Registered User regular
    Echo wrote: »
    furlion wrote: »
    There is no way any reasonable codec is going to end up with a larger file size then Fraps.

    Sure there is. Fraps is near-lossless; then there's raw format.
    Fraps has an option for RGB mode (at least on newer versions), so that's lossless. Normal mode uses YV12 as its colorspace IIRC.
    Turns out iMovie is shit anyway, so I might just buy some cheap edition of Sony Vegas instead and do Lagarith for intermediate work before the final h.264 pass in VirtualDub.
    While I can't help with iMovie being shit, did you ever try Perian? I assume that iMovie would use the same framework that QuickTime does for decoding video, so that might be a solution.

    Vegas is pretty good, but for my video editing needs I just use Avisynth.

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  • ben0207ben0207 Registered User regular
    Just use MPEG Streamclip to convert to H264 / AAC audio.

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