[Avid-L2] Re: FFmpeg for the rest of us?

 

Hi John,

Long time no see, Try http://handbrake.fr/ it is based on FFMPEG and is for the rest of us, easy to use. The current version is 64-bit and screams on a Mac Pro tower.

Erik

--- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, John Moore <bigfish@...> wrote:
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> It just feels like it's my night in the barrel of video formats.  Trying to convert a flash video using mpeg streamclip I get an error saying I need ffmpeg in something like usr/local/bin or something like that.  Googling FFmpeg has a host of various approaches to ffmpeg command line of ffmpegx gui etc....  Is this really as difficult as it seems to be?  Sometimes I get a prompt for perian which seems to apply to these scenarios but I'm not interested in adding the whacky levels potentials I've heard about with perian codec installed.  I'm on a mac book pro os 10.6.6  I thought I had converted flash files before but I might have been going the other way converting a QT to a flash or some such thing.  What is a good way to convert a flash video to something QT compatible?  Also what is the simplist way to install FFmpeg functionality and are there any downsides with installing it?  Man once again I long for the days of 3/4 or 1 inch?
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> John Moore
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> Barking Trout Productions
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> Studio City, CA
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> bigfish@...
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