HD MOVs converted to HD AVIs via mpeg streamclips not pc compatible?

This is driving me crazy. You'd think it was the most basic thing but I can't get any info on why the HD AVIs created via Mpeg Streamclip will not play on my clients PC. He has the appropriate codex but the things won't play at all. The same HD MOVs i'm trying to convert to HD AVI play fine on his PC when I convert using Quicktime Pro but I can only get SD resolution on my created AVIs using quicktime. If anyone can tell me what is the best way to convert a HD MOV to a pc compatible HD AVI format that would be a wonderful thing. Please help
thanks

What codec are these MOVs in originally? If it is DVCPRO HD then as far as I know the only computers that have that codec on it are ones with FCP installed on them. Does your final file have to be an AVI or can it be something else?

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Customer needs the finished video in AVI and in a size for web.
I am using MpegStreamclip and wondering what I choose for the compression choices that Streamclip is giving me ? DVC Pro ?
The QT movie is about 8 mins long, (720x480) 16x9 and there is very little movement in it. No quick action just a guy talking and moving slow.
Thanks,
Al
Message was edited by: UCanCallMeAl

Bought the flip for mac plug in. There are a lot of options for diff bit rates. Should I choose constant CBR or variable VBR and when I watch the export using QT it is giving me a data rate (in the show info window) that is meaningless to me.
Some background information to consider:
1) The target bit rate always varies to some degree depending on the graphic complexity of the source content.
2) Constant Bit Rate (CBR) encoding provides a more or less constant data rate at the expense of varying the quality dependent on the instantaneous graphic complexity of the source file. (Think of it as having a constant data rate with variable quality.)
3) Variable Bit Rate (VBR) encoding varies the data rate in an attempt to keep the quality more or less constant. (Think of it as having a variable data rate with constant quality.)
4) Fast start or streaming content always plays most smoothly if the playback data rate is kept lower than the target user's ISP average connection speed.
Since you did not indicate which version of Flip4Mac you purchases, I don't know if you have the option to actually set multi-pass average and peak bit rate targets. If not, then you must use the Quality slider to "guesstimate" single pass video data rates whether creating CBR or VBR conversions. (In this case for a 320x240 target resolution, you may want to try something like a quality setting of 25 and go up or down depending on the results for your particular source file. Be advised that when you test the file for playback, you will likely see two different data rates in the "Inspector" window. The first (lower reading) is for the raw cacheing WMV data which is partially decompresses as it is cached. When finished cacheing, the number will likely double in size as it switches to monitoring the partially decompressed data actually used by the QT player. As I did not know if your client's 550 (450 + 100) Kbps bit rate target was for the WMV content or the cached content, I suggested the initial 25 quality rating as a good starting point for your own preliminary output testing.
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Hi folks,
I'm trying to convert an .mov to an .avi for a client using MPEG Streamclip. I have exported a high res master copy of the video from Final Cut (it's a .mov format is Pro Res 422 1920x1080 50i).
So when I bring this file into MPEG Streamclip, I select File > Export to Avi.... and then the following settings:
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The compression starts and I instantly get the error "Compression Error"
When this started I installed the lastest version of DivX however since I am new to exporting as .avi I am completely lost. I was able to get MPEG Streamclip to export using Apple Cinepak however the quality is awful so I am looking for another solution. I have also tried converting from my highest resolution MPEG-4 export, however I get the same result.
I am thinking that maybe my DivX codec isn't installed, or there is some problem with it? However I thought a new installation of DivX would fix this.
Any help is greatly appreciated! Thanks.

I would suggest exporting three small test files using H264 codec at three different rezolutions.
Play them back and if satisfied send them to your client to evaluate so they can decide what will work for them.
1280x720 H264 files are what we give to our clients these days as "high quality' video.
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I want to convert a movie from Quicktime (.mov) which I created in Final Cut Express to MPEG4 in MPEG Streamclip to be able to see it on my Samsung TV. The problem is that the uncompressed movie, comverted only from Quicktome to MPEG 4, stops almost every moment on my Samsung TV. I have connected an external harddrive in NTFS there via USB 2.0 (Samsung TV cannot play movies in HFS etc.). The uncompressed movies are bigger than 4GB in Quicktime.
I got the following information from Samsung (in German):
"Sie berichten, dass Filme zum Laden stoppen, die auf Ihrem MacBook Pro flüssig laufen. Bitte beachten Sie hierbei, dass der Fernseher hinsichtlich Rechenleistung nicht mit einem Computer vergleichbar ist. Weiters verfügt der Fernseher über einen USB 2.0 Anschluss, was die übertragbare Datenmenge ebenfalls begrenzt.
Die allgemeinen Spezifikationen für Videodateien finden Sie im Benutzerhandbuch ab Seite 248:
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I ask here how to use MPEG streamclip (free version; I use 1.9.2) so convert my movies into MPEG 4 so that I cann watch it on my Samsung TV.
I filled out "Bildrate" "30" but this did not work. I have chosen less quality but there are still - less - interruptions and I find it laborious to test different versions of less quality so that it might work.
I ask you also because I want to create my movies to give it to other people via the internet (f.i. via rapidshare) but I need a smaller size of my movies and do not know all the different TVs my friends have. I cannot imagine that it is not possible to create a movie in MPEG 4 that cannot be seen in many TVs via an external harddrive?

I know that I can do that also in FCE. It takes much more time to convert a movie into MPEG4 than to export it as uncompressed movie in QuickTime which I can use f.i. in iDVD to burn a DVD or watch it on my MBP.
But I don't know the versions of TVs of other people if I want to send them the movie via internet f.i. via mydrive.ch etc. which have limited space if used for free. So which settings to choose for an output in MPEG4?
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Resizing my 512x288 files to 720x480 looks like it works, as well as with my 640x480 ones (don't know how it'll ultimately mess with the quality)... but I did do a test using some footage from 3 different video sources with different native resoultions, a)720x480 Sony DV Cam, b) 512x288 captured by helmet cam on Archos PMA 430, and c) 640x480 captured on Canon SD600, as well as .jpeg photos at 640x480 res.
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Anyway, Tom Wolsky has mostly got me on the right track in the last post "...so the material needs to be a .mov QuickTime file in DV NTSC, at 29.97fps, audio should be Linear PCM with a sample rate of 48KHz, and frame resolution of 720x480 using the CCIR601 digital video aspect ratio... be warned you're scaling up a very, very heavily compressed video stream, so it's going to look less than optimal when you make it DV. I can't believe they can do 192kbps at that frame rate, when DV, which is heavily compressed as well, is 3.5MB/sec."
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Hi again, I have now managed to change it from .mov to .avi by simply going to the hard drive, selecting it and changing the extension.
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I did this and the windows changed to 16:9...
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BY THE WAY... when I reread the manual after having been using FCP for several years now, it made MUCH more sense. I learned a bit about stuff I didn't know I had questions about... I suggest everyone do a reread once in a while... (or read it at least once if you never have)

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