Hold uncompressed video?

Can an ipod hold an uncompressed video, say a .DV file or even mpeg-2, then somehow be hooked up to a tv and watched with no loss of quality?
I have little interest in watching movies on that little screen, but I'd like to store a couple movies to take over to a friend's house and play on the tv...
thanks.

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Can the Ipod Classic hold uncompressed video?

Can an ipod classic hold an uncompressed video, say a .DV file or even mpeg-2, then somehow be hooked up to a tv and watched with no loss of quality?
I have little interest in watching movies on that little screen, but I'd like to store a couple movies to take over to a friend's house and play on the tv...
thanks.

schmoel, you can't work with uncompressed stuff (see THIS)
However, there are some excellent file converters out there, specifically designed to output the iPod Classic format, and to choose whether you'll be watching on screen or TV.
Personally, I use VisualHub

I can't export uncompressed videos

I'm trying to export my videos as uncompressed AVIs so I can compress them on a seperate encoder, H.264, so I can put them on youtube and retain high quality videos. However, every time I try to do this, once it's finished exporting, I click the video to test it and I only get the audio. I doesn't matter how big or small the video is or what's on it, whenever I try to export an uncompressed video, I lose the actual video in the process.
So is there a way to fix this? Or if not, is there a way I can export the video without the enormous loss in quality I get whenever I do an AVI export? Thanks

sorry I wasn't being very specific. When I said uncompressed AVI, I mean the videos were orignially AVIs and I simply wanted them to be returned as the raw footage but in the reorganized, edited form I put them in. Like rearanging the videos without having to encode them again and deal with the loss of quality. Virtual Dub does this but it's harder to work with and more limited than premiere pro.
Still not specific enough. There are two ways of exporting an uncompressed AVI from Premiere Pro: you can set the Format as Uncompressed Microsoft AVI (which you shouldn't; that's only for AJA hardware), or you can set the Format to Microsoft AVI, and then select "None" from the codec dropdown. It's the latter than you want to do.
You might want to look into the Lagarith Lossless Video Codec or the Ut Video Codec Suite; both are free visually lossless codecs that will be smaller than uncompressed. They'll appear as codec options under Microsoft AVI. Lagarith installs both x86 and x64 (required for CS5) versions; for Ut, you need to install both the 32-bit and 64-bit packages.

Uncompressed Video Format

I was going to do a tv ad for my company but the director of the video said my computer would not be able to handle editing in uncompressed format?
I have a Geforce 6600LE graphics card....2Ghz processor and 2.5gh RAM and my heard drive space is around 200Gig...
I have spoken to someone else and they said that they dont see this being a problem...
Can anyone please confirm this?
Many thanks

You cannot edit uncompressed video with a firewire drive. You need a secondary Internal SATA drive, external SATA Raid...or at least a G-Raid or LaCie D2 (firewire 800, two drives hardware raided together).
Yes, they could capture the footage uncompressed for you at a post facility, use a firewire drive to transfer it to your system, but you need hard drives capable of playing it, and you will need the codecs they used to capture the footage. Decklink, AJA...all are available for download on their websites.
But your computer is more than capable. It is the drives and capture card that you lack.
Shane

Uncompressed video export

Hi everyone sorry for my english . But to the point. I've got a weird problem. I created a sequenc in Premiere CS4 from several mov files, in preview window it looked sharp. Next I wanted to export the sequence as uncompressed video (in media encoder I set file format to: Microsoft Avi and codec to: none, pixel ratio: square pixel). Rendered video size was about 3 GB but the quality of the video was very poor, it was very blurred. I'm not changeing the dimensions of the video sequence.
Please help, i'm starting to pull my hair off .

i'm using premiere cs4.
trying to export the video to later compress it with virtualdub, but something gets fcuked up in the process:(
the video will be like a square after VDUB has processed it. (xvid 2-pass encoding).
any idea how to keep the original height of the video??
premiere shows the source and output the same way, so i guess its VDUB that ruins it for me?
any idea why does it do that?
cs4 export settings:
microsoft avi
video codec: dv pal
video: 720x576 @25fps
field type: upper first
aspect: D1/DV PAL (1.0940)
my source is 720x576, 25.00fps avi file, taken out from somekind Canon's XM camera...
or maybe there's a tutorial site of the same process somewhere? with all the details etc..
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I imported a piece of uncompressed video in FCE 1.0 and then exported as a Final Cut Movie and it ends up a little blurry. My original video is crystral clear. Is there a setting I'm missing?

what is your source material shot on? what capture facilites do you have? What format is your origonal video? How are you exporting it?

File formats for uncompressed video import

Hello all,
I am currently trying out FCPX for a project I'm doing at work and am having trouble with import that I hope someone can help me with.
I am creating video test pattern streams using a Python app, with the aim of then converting the raw, uncompressed video this produces down to various codec formats (h.264, h.265, etc.) as required. I was going to use FCP to review pre-process the video, add audio etc.
From what I can tell, the app supports uncompressed video in both 8 and 10 bits but I can't get it to recognise the files my app produces (which are in 'standard' y4m format). Does this mean that you can only get uncompressed video from a direct camera import rather than from a standard file format? If you can import from file then what extension does it need to be recognised?
If Y4M is not supported could someone suggest a raw format which is supported and I can change the backend of my generator.
Any help you can provide would be great.
Thanks
Ian

You'll need to wrap this in something that FCPX can work with – MOV, MP4. etc. If you have software that can do this, great; otherwise, perhaps someone else will see this and chime in. Here is a list of supported formats.
Russ

Suggestions for a SCSI card and/or drive for working on uncompressed video

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I have a dual G5 w/2.7GB RAM and a Serial ATA 250 GB HD and the need to work with uncompressed video. Can anybody steer me in the right SCSI direction?
Marty

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How can i export uncompressed video from motion 5?

how can i export uncompressed video-material from motion 5?

Export with Current Settings if you are already working uncompressed. Otherwise, Send to Compressor, and choose the codec you want there.

Intel MacBook Pro and uncompressed video. Does it work???

I'm about to buy a 2nd edit system (currently running dual G5, AJA IO, with FCP 5 and, 3TB of SATA uncompressed storage) I need this next system to be mobile but still do uncompressed video. I see that you can use the AJA IO with the old MacBooks but you need a PCMCIA FW card with dual FW800 drives raided together to do 10bit uncompressed off of Digi Bet or Beta SP. Id there a pcmcia card slot on the new intel macbooks? Is anyone running this setup with success? I need to buy this thin ASAP and have it running soon. Any ideas?

MacBook Pros do not have CardBus slots or PCMCIA Type II. They do have one ExpressCard/34 slot which is, I believe, becoming the new industry standard. Well, ExpressCard is, anyway. It's simply a higher bandwidth expansion card format that uses the PCI Express bus or USB 2.0 for connectivity. It's important to note that the MacBook Pro uses the 34mm form factor (there is also a 54mm form factor). You'll probably have to wait for the hardware you have to support ExpressCard/34.

AVCHD to Uncompressed Video File Conversion Factor

I have a Canon HF S21 camcorder and I'm looking for a conversion factor from AVCHD to Uncompressed Video Files when filming in maximum video resolution of 1920 X 1080. I want the conversion factor to size an eternal firewire hard drive for editing my videos in Final Cut Express.

Whilst I have no experience of AVCHD other than a few clips from the DVD in Tom's book, I have used ProRes and Apple Intermediate Codec which is what all AVCHD is converted to before editing in FCE/FCP and the USB 2.0 Hub and Hard Drives combination has worked flawlessly.
Of course, until I have actually used an AVCHD camera I won't be able to comment either way with any certainty.
For a while I have been wondering whether PAL or 25fps based cameras act slightly differently from NTSC or 30fps ones with regard to ease of editing my way.
Here's an example I posted some time ago, though be aware that the image has been reduced to 1280x720 and a very low data rate was used in order to keep the file very small because of a monthly cap on my internet use.
http://vimeo.com/11190626

Deleting the uncompressed video file once m2v and aif have been created

When I create a dvd then close the project.
I then later delete the uncompressed video file captured from tape.
I reopen DVD studio pro and it tells me that it cannot find original file.
I tell it to used m2v encoded file as new video file and aif encoded file as new audio file.
But i am then given an error message and these two files disapear.
Can anyone help me out. Surely i should not have to keep the original captured video file for every dvd I want to make. The idea surely is that once DVD studio pro has made m2v and aif files then the project should be able to use those to create any further DVD of that project.

I've still never seen any problems with a single video track and uncompressed audio.
I won't argue that it never happens to anybody, of course, but I've made DVDs for a lot of people, and usually the only problems I hear tend to be a problem with their brand of player not being able to recognize the media. Those are relatively rare and almost always has to do with cheaper brands of DVD players. If they can get it to start at all, I haven't heard of any trouble with playing the whole thing.
I would like to know if that's the problem I had with trying multiple video tracks, though. DVDSP would refuse to even finish the build. It would start to mux, then partway through, say the bitrate was too high and abort. It was a long time ago, but I would've been using uncompressed audio and probably fairly high bitrate video (3.2Mbps, possibly even 3.5). Seemed stupid to me; I would've thought the muxing would be a smart enough design so that only the video and audio tracks in use at any given time (one video, one audio, one subtitle) would count toward your maximum allowed bitrate.
But that brings up another point you guys might try. I heard people mention 3.5Mbps. I use 3.2, and I don't see any noticeable difference in the quality of the video. But switching from uncompressed audio to ac3 definitely is a noticeable (downward) difference, at least using the stock Dolby 2.0 encoding preset included in DVDSP4 / Compressor 2 and a standard stereo (2-channel) source. I did several different tests where I encoded the audio both ways and burned a test DVD with multiple audio tracks, switching between them to compare. Even normal conversations on the ac3 (Dolby 2.0) track sounded quieter and less dynamic, and there was (naturally) an even more noticeable difference in any kind of music.
So you might give that combination (3.2Mbps video with uncompressed audio) a try in the future, especially if you're picky about the audio. If that fixes the problem, I think it's a reasonable sacrifice since the audio difference is more severe. Basically, if you're doing a professional enough job that the difference in video between 3.5Mbps and 3.2Mbps is important, then you should already be doing a professional 5.1 audio encoding from individual channels anyway.
BTW, I have my 3.2Mbps labeled "120min", since that's about what I can fit on a DVD with uncompressed audio. My other often-used settings are 2.8Mpbs for 135min (three hour-long TV episodes with commercials cut out), and 2.0Mpbs for 170min. (And I can't remember for sure, but the 170min may even be a slight overestimate, so be careful of cutting it too close if you use those settings.) I usually don't even notice a video quality difference with 2.8Mpbs, though I have only used that with a less-than-pristine source anyway, so the lower bitrate isn't the bottleneck for quality in that case.

What uncompressed video format can Apple TV play?

Hi folks. I'm thinking about buying an Apple TV to stream video files from my Windows iTunes instance. Does the Apple TV support any uncompressed video formats? Like MKV?? Thanks.

Mpeg2 is still a very highly compressed format.
There are a couple of basics relating to compression that you might wish to consider. The aspects of compression discussed hereinafter are not necessarily technically correct but are an analogy to help you understand a little about compression.
Firstly as Jon points out earlier, uncompressed video is essentially for editing and would never be used for delivery, compression of some data will make no difference to quality at all as some of the data that forms an uncompressed file is redundant anyway.
A very simple example of this would be a blue screen. Every pixel on that screen is blue and every frame of that video is the same as the first, an uncompressed video would record data about every pixel for every frame, you can see how much space can be saved if you were able to provide data for just one pixel and tell the device to simply replicate it for every pixel in every frame. (There are about 23,000,000 pixels in each second of 720p video).
You can also compress non redundant data by replacing it with a calculation that simply regenerates the original data (or close to) from information about neighbouring frames, such a calculation typically takes up much less room than the data it replaces.
In considering the later example you will note the insertion of the phrase 'close to', depending on the amount and the type of compression 'close to' could mean so close you could not possibly notice or nothing like it at all. The less you compress the data the more likely 'close to' means so close you could not possibly notice.
In addition to the amount of compression, the type of compression used is extremely important, a simple calculation will not produce the same quality as complex calculations, you might consider here mpeg2 (the type of compression used in your DVD's) as a simple calculation, it therefore can't compress video all that much before it starts to lose quality and therefore the video files need to be fairly large.
Now consider a more modern type of compression such as mpeg4/10 (the type of compression used by the Apple TV) which is much more complex and therefore able to compress video much more than mpeg 2 and retain the same quality, so much so that you likely won't see any difference in quality between your mpeg2 video and the same video compressed to 20% the size.
In summary, you will hopefully see that there is absolutely no point trying to keep your video in it's original format, it will simply take up much more space on your hard drives and you won't get any value from it.

RAW/Uncompressed Video Questions.

Hello everyone. Recently I've been doing a lot of video research, etc. since I am about to purchase my new Mac with Final Cut Express HD pre-installed. Somehow, I just found a gigantic gap in my research dealing with raw/uncompressed video. I was told that uncompressed/raw video formats contained the best quality when working with a Mini-DV(non-HD)Camcorder but that Final Cut Express did not directly support uncompressed/raw video. I was wondering, if I were to import video from my camera to my Mac as raw/uncompressed, what would be the best possible option to compress the video but lose as little quality as possible and make the video compatible with final cut express? In other words, if I import a video onto my Mac as uncompressed, what compression rate or format would I use to 1.)compress the video, 2.)lose as little quality as possible, and also 3.)make the video final cut express compatible? As always, I WILL read your responses and I appreciate ANY help at all. Thanks a lot.
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What Karsten sys is correct.
1. None. The camera has already done a 5:1 compreesion and it's called the DV25 codec. That's what is on the tape and that's what you see if you play the camera direct to a TV.
2. When you capture to a Mac it's a simple file transfer with no loss.
3. The capture from you camera is directly compatible with FCE as long as the Easy Setup matches the incoming footage.
There's a bunch of Easy Setups. Some PAL and NTSC (your video standard); 32 kHz and 48 kHz( matches 12 & 16 bit from camera respectively); Firewire Basic (Canon cams or others that have trouble talking to FCE); Anamorphic (for 16:9).
Al

16bit uncompressed video files to large what media manager setting is best

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I am working with some uncompressed video clips they come in at 25 gb a clip. These are profesional animation clips I am looking to save some disk space and still get near the same quality. I am editing the clips for mobile use so i need to start with a high quality master. any suggestions for what settings i should use with media manager.
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Why .avi?
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