Casio EX-S880 video works with iMovie '08 if audio transcoded

Hi,
Just to let you know that Casio EX-S880 video clips work with iMovie '08 (tested 7.0.1) if you first transcode the audio to AAC. The camera creates H.264 / DVI ADPCM video clips (and they look pretty nice with 848x480 resolution!). iMovie '08 does not like that audio codec. E.g. with QuickTime Pro you can open the original MOV clip, then export it to MP4 with video "Pass Through" and audio AAC. This way you can preserve the original video image quality.
Or if you have ffmpeg, same thing can be achieved with: "ffmpeg -i original.mov -vcodec copy -acodec libfaac -ab 64k target.mp4". Btw, current MacPorts version of ffmpeg (0.4.9-pre1) does not recognize the DVI ADPCM audio, you'll need to compile a newer version from the ffmpeg source repository. Recent ffmpeg recognizes the audio as "adpcmimawav".

Hi,
Just to let you know that Casio EX-S880 video clips work with iMovie '08 (tested 7.0.1) if you first transcode the audio to AAC. The camera creates H.264 / DVI ADPCM video clips (and they look pretty nice with 848x480 resolution!). iMovie '08 does not like that audio codec. E.g. with QuickTime Pro you can open the original MOV clip, then export it to MP4 with video "Pass Through" and audio AAC. This way you can preserve the original video image quality.
Or if you have ffmpeg, same thing can be achieved with: "ffmpeg -i original.mov -vcodec copy -acodec libfaac -ab 64k target.mp4". Btw, current MacPorts version of ffmpeg (0.4.9-pre1) does not recognize the DVI ADPCM audio, you'll need to compile a newer version from the ffmpeg source repository. Recent ffmpeg recognizes the audio as "adpcmimawav".

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