The level issue is ama vs import IIRC. I haven't experienced it but read about it. Oliver P and Howard B did some tests a while back regarding this.
--- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, James Culbertson <albion@...> wrote:
>
> After Effects will import and display FLV or F4V which you can then render to anything. I assume Adobe Media Encoder will do the same. Probably Premiere as well?
>
> I personally use Episode Pro to do this.
>
> If it is a .f4v (H.264) you can just change the .f4v postfix to .mp4, and then Quicktime (without Perian) will open it.
>
> What is the Perian levels issue? The only reference I can find via google is some kind of AMA import luminance problem. Is that what you are referencing? I've not seen any issues with Perian and Apple or Adobe apps.
>
> Thanks,
>
> James
>
>
> On May 18, 2011, at 11:00 PM, Rupert Watson wrote:
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> > Where are you getting the Flash from? Can you open it in QuickTime
> > player?
> >
> > If you can, and you have QTPro you could save it out as some other codec
> >
> > Rupert Watson
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> > From: Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com [mailto:Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf
> > Of John Moore
> > Sent: 19 May 2011 05:12
> > To: Avid L2
> > Subject: [Avid-L2] FFmpeg for the rest of us?
> >
> > 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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