Help please saving without quality loss
i have a lot of good quality mpeg-2 files ,when i import them into imovie hd to edit them, what is the best option for saving them once there edited ?
i dont want to have a great loss in quality hence im using imovie hd and not imovie 8 as 8 only saves in mp4 and there is a great loss in quality
thanks in advance
Mpeg2 files are highly compressed and are not intended for editing. They will not work with iMovie.
Mpeg2 is the standard format of DVDs, in other words the final delivery format.
You need to convert these files back to DV which iMovie is designed to handle. For that you need mpegStreamclip:
http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/video/mpegstreamclip.html
which is free, as well as the the Apple mpeg2 plugin :
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/mpeg2/
which is a mere $20.
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