Mpeg streamclip and GoPro conversion

When converting files in mpeg streamclip what format should I export them so they are in hd? The files are h.264 mp4 from a GoPro so I want to make them apple friendly for FCE 4.

Is your source footage 29.97 Progressive? Then:
MtD

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Hi, im tinkering with mpeg streamclip and its giving me problems because it won't open my ripped dvd files from my desktop. It keeps giving me the same message "no VOB files can be found". Can anyone help me, this doesn't make sense.

hi, im tinkering with mpeg streamclip and its giving me problems because it won't open my ripped dvd files from my desktop. It keeps giving me the same message "no VOB files can be found". Can anyone help me, this doesn't make sense. I also found online that you need Apple Mpeg-2 playback component in order to use mpeg streamclip. Even though I have OS X Lion, should I download the add-on?

You need to convert the VOB files in the TS-Folder of the DVD back to DV which iMovie is designed to handle. For that you need mpegStreamclip:
http://www.squared5.com/svideo/mpeg-streamclip-mac.html
which is free, but you must also have the Apple mpeg2 plugin :
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/mpeg2/
(unless you are running Lion in which case see below))
which is a mere $20.
Another possibility is to use DVDxDV:
http://www.dvdxdv.com/NewFolderLookSite/Products/DVDxDV.overview.htm
which costs $25.
For the benefit of others who may read this thread:
Obviously the foregoing only applies to DVDs you have made yourself, or other home-made DVDs that have been given to you. It will NOT work on copy-protected commercial DVDs, which in any case would be illegal.
And from the TOU of these forums:
Keep within the Law
No material may be submitted that is intended to promote or commit an illegal act.
Do not submit software or descriptions of processes that break or otherwise ‘work around’ digital rights management software or hardware. This includes conversations about ‘ripping’ DVDs or working around FairPlay software used on the iTunes Store.
If you are running Lion:
From the MPEG Streamclip homepage
The installer of the MPEG-2 Playback Component may refuse to install the component in Lion. Apple states the component is unnecessary in Lion, however MPEG Streamclip still needs it.
To install the component in Lion, please download MPEG Streamclip 1.9.3b7 beta above; inside the disk image you will find the Utility MPEG2 Component Lion: use it to install the MPEG-2 Playback Component in Lion. The original installer's disk image (QuickTimeMPEG2.dmg) is required.
The current versions of MPEG Streamclip cannot take advantage of the built-in MPEG-2 functionality of Lion. For MPEG-2 files you still need to install the QuickTime MPEG-2 Playback Component, which is not preinstalled in Lion. You don't have to install QuickTime 7.

I need some serious help with MPEG Streamclip and iMovie 11

Hello, everyone!
I hope that some kind soul here is able to help me. My sister-in-law asked me if I could help her re-edit a video that they made of a conference she gave because she didn't like the way some parts were edited. I oh-so-kindly (and perhaps stupidly) offered to help her out!
A little background: even though I studied audiovisual communications in college, I leaned (a LOT) towards the audio production part of it and, lately, photography, too. That means that I'm not very good at the whole creating-a-movie-in-iMovie thing, even though I know it's supposed to be easy.
So, here goes: I have a DVD from her which has the typical TS files for audio and video. I downloaded a program called MPEG Streamclip and then it said I needed to buy the QuickTime MPEG-2 Playback Component so that I could rip the DVD my sister-in-law gave me. I bought the component.
I've converted, done small, 1-minute tests, of the DVD with MPEG Streamclip to DV and also to MP4 (just in case). I do it, then import them to iMovie 11. I don't edit anything at all, just a test to see how it looks, so I immediately send the project to iDVD to see how it looks. It DOES NOT look good.
Compared to the DVD she gave me, which looks all smooth (picture-wise), mine has a certain amount (NOT HUGE) of pixelation. I can tell especially because there are some slides that were added to her project, so I can see the pixelated parts around the edges of the letters.
The DVD she gave me does NOT look HD. In fact, it looks SD (4:3), so I don't believe it's that.
If anybody here knows about this, what am I doing wrong? Am I not ripping it correctly using MPEG Streamclip? Am I not making the iMovie 11 project right? Am I burning in the "wrong way"?
If it's the MPEG Streamclip ripping that I'm doing wrong, what are the settings I should be using? What format should I be using so that it is VERY iMovie-friendly?
I want the final video that I would edit to look exactly as the one she gave me. That IS possible, right?
For extra information, if needed, I am running a MacBook Pro, 13", i7 with 4 GB of RAM and am running OS 10.6.6. I've been a Mac user since the OS 9 days.
Thanks in advance for anyone who helps me out.
Serge

Ok. Got it!!!
Z, thanks a lot!! Now things don't look pixelated and my test burn looks exactly like the dvd my sister-in-law gave me... except for ONE THING:
There are these graphics done in I-don't-know-what program with a cube transition. They look like when you do 3D cube transitions in virtual desktop, you know?
Anyway, HER dvd looks completely smooth when you see these transitions but MY dvd looks... well, not right. It looks a bit like the screen or the letters "tremble" or shake a bit. I hope you can understand what I'm saying.
I followed your advice to the letter and everything is perfect with the exception of those transitions (because after the transition passes and you see the slide with the writing, it looks completely smooth).
Do you know of something that I can do to help with this problem?
Thanks again!
Serge

DVD Studio Pro/MPEG Streamclip and PAL

Hello All:
I'm trying to convert several PAL DVDs to NTSC. I'm using MPEG Streamclip to convert the PAL VIDEO_TS folders. Then I'm compiling them on Studio Pro.
My Streamclip settings are as follows:
Export to Other Formats>
Quicktime>
DV/DVCPRO NTSC>
Best>
29.97>
16:9>
740 x 480>
48KHz/16bit
I'm getting a lot of artifacting (picture shifts during pans, jagged edges (interlacing?), etc.)
They don't look bad on my computer monitors in either app, but of course a burned DVD playing on a real-world Sony broadcast monitor tells a much different story.
Does anyone have any setting(s) suggestions to smooth over these problems?
Thanks!!

First off, thanks to everyone for all your great suggestions.
Agreed that the material was compressed to begin with. (Begin rant)...I'm amazed that so many people have a finished DVD they've spent hundreds on, yet apparently have no access to source material or even assets. No matter how I try to explain why the finished product won't look as good as what they gave me, the response is "it's DVD--DVD always looks great. Why can't you make it look great?" (end of rant, thanks...)
I'm on a PPC running Final Cut Studio 1 (so ProRes is unavailable to me). I took the footage to another system (Intel dual-core running FCS 3), used ProResLT, and to tell you the truth, I didn't see any noticeable difference--fade ups/downs are jerky, jagged lines between light & dark areas, etc. I'm also playing them back on both Sony and JVC broadcast monitors. I did some research on past threads, and downloaded and used JES Deinterlacer--no change. Even untrained eyes notice the problems.
I guess I was looking for someone who had had the same issue, and had a silver bullet to share with me. I've been on this for two days now, and my options are drying up. If I do succeed, somehow, I'll report back on what I did.
Thanks again.

Mpeg streamclip and multi clip editing

I am working on a project in which I have two pieces of video. My main camera for talent and mp4 files from a software that captures video screen movement.. similat to camtasia.
My Talent cam settings are frame size 1440 x 1080i @ 29.97 fps.
I'm trying to run the mp4's through streamclip to make them into a file that will work with my talent cam.
I'm wanting to do multi clip editing but I cannot get the file from streamclip to work with my talent cam. I get warrnings that the frame sizes don't match... so I fix that, then I get warnings that the video rate doesn't match and I get that fixed. then I get warnings that the codec types don't match.
I've used pro res 422, apple dv- dvc ntsc with the same frame and fps settings, AVI settings etc... to many tries to remember them all.
Can anyone tell me a good setting from streamclip that will work to do a multi cam edit?
R

Have you tried using compressor? Has a lot more controls and it might do the trick.
Wondering if a difference in field dominance could be causing this.
What do you mean by avi settings? avi files are not gonna work in fcp.
If you have 2 short clips from each source and want to send them to me, I'll see if I can figure what's up.
My email is in my profile.

Mpeg Streamclip: Which is the best conversion format for (SD) Mpeg 2 footag

I picked up a Canon FS11 (Very very tiny). With that comes some drawbacks, but overall a nice little camera that I can fit it my cargo or baggy pockets easily.
Anyways, I am able to convert the Standad definition Mpeg 2 footage with Mpeg Streamclip and use Final Cut Studio just fine so far.
My question is: It gives you options as to what format to convert the clips to (DV or Quicktime movie, as well as many other options. I just used NTSC DV, but was wondering if using a different format for conversion would be better or is this my best option.
Thanks in advance.

Thanks Michael,
That is very helpful.
I have two other question for you. Streamclip asks if I want to fix time code breaks. I checked it for yes. But, do I want to fix them? And if so it gives you the option to not skip any frames. Do I want to do that as well?
Also somebody mentioned to me that I could use the Quicktime ProRes option on Streamclip. Would that give me higher quality by going that route or would it be overkill for my SD footage from this tiny camera?
Thanks in advance for all of your thoughts.

MPEG1-DV conversion using MPEG Streamclip. Help!

I am having problems converting an mpeg1 movie clip for editing in iMovie.
I recently recorded a concert on my Sony DCR-HC40 camcorder. The majority of the concert was captured to cassette in DV-PAL format (720 x 576, stereo, 48 kHz at 25 FPS).
However, the final third of the concert was captured on the camera's MemoryStick Duo in MPEG1 muxed format (320 x 320 at 25 FPS). The clip is 84 Mb in size.
I want to convert the mpeg clip into the same format at the cassette footage so that I can seamlessly splice the two sets of footage in iMovieHD with as little depreciation in quality of image and sound as possible.
So far I have simply used the 'export to DV' command from the File menu in MPEG Streamclip. But this produces a noticeably crackly-sounding depreciation in sound quality and no improvement in image quality - rather the reverse infact, since when viewed in the larger Quicktime window, the clip shows up the poorer resolution of the original clip.
What do I need to do to get the original mpeg clip to as near a quality as the cassette footage, for editing and burning onto DVD for display on a TV?
Any guidance would be much appreciated.
BTW, I am running Tiger 10.4.3 on a Pb G4 (QuickTime 7.0.3/iMovie 5.0.2)
PowerBook G4 17 1.5 ghz 512 MB Ram Mac OS X (10.4.3)

mpeg1 footage is only fit for showing on screens no larger than an iPod photo or mobile device?
MPEG1 is usually encoded with low resolution and rather low bitrates so the quality is often rather poor.
However, MPEG1 CAN be encoded with DVD-like resolutions and bitrates so the quality CAN be quite good (MPEG1 doesn't support interlacing like MPEG2, though).
It would be a shame to lose the footage as it was part of a concert of Handel's Messiah.
One option could be to do minimal edits to the MPEG1 with MPEG editors like MPEG Streamclip and burn it as a VCD or DVD (they both CAN have the same video although DVDs rarely use it). Then you'd preserve ALL video quality there is.
...but this won't work with your 320x240 video because the VCD/DVD compatible resolution is PAL 352x288 or NTSC 352x240. So you'd need to re-compress even your 320x240 MPEG which degrades quality.
So your best quality option is to watch the MPEG1 on a computer monitor via MPEG Streamclip, QT Player or some other viewer.
Or, you can convert to DV and blend it with the high quality DV tape material. Converting MPEG to DV should not much or at all degrade quality because DV is a much higher quality codec than your MPEG1 source.
Bit Rate: 0.73 Mbps
Duration: 0:16:16
Data Size: 84.79 MB
That's quite low. A DVD uses about 4-6-8 Mb/s and a low quality low res VCD uses 1.1 Mb/s. So your MPEG1 quality can't be very good to begin with.
Audio Tracks:
192 MP2 mono, 32 kHz, 32 kbps
That's very low, too. Even a low quality MP2 often uses 192 kb/s. And the 32 kHz must be resampled to 48 kHz for DV or DVD use.
when played, either via streamclip before conversion, or in QT (I don't have QTPro) after conversion to DV, distorts at quite low levels in a way that a QT movie from cassette does not.
I'm afraid that there is not much you can do if you hear the distortion even BEFORE any conversions. Some dedicated audio processing app might soften the distortion but I wouldn't count on that.
FWIW, you might try to convert using the "Low Level" audio. From the MPEG Streamclip guide:
"For MPEG audio tracks (MP1, MP2) two different audio levels are available for playback and conversion to MOV, DV, AVI, MP4 and AIFF: "High Level" and "Low Level". You can choose one of these two levels using the "Audio Mode" pop-up menu. The default level is "High Level". Use "Low Level" if, and only if, the converted movie or AIFF file shows an excess of volume."
you also mention that re-compressing with iDVD will further degrade quality. Is this true of both types of footage (mpeg->DV & DV cassette)?
MPEG2 compression used in video-DVDs will ALWAYS degrade quality. High quality material (such as DV) tolerates this better so you might not even notice it. So you should use high bitrates if you want to convert and burn the low quality MPEG1-converted-to-DV material as a DVD (with iDVD use Best Performance or don't exceed ~70 minutes with Best Quality).
would I need to get Roxio Toast? What is the difference between this and IDVD?
Toast 7 can be forced to burn non-valid DVD resolutions as a video-DVD (MPEG Streamclip can be used to prepare the MPEGs) with no re-converting or quality loss but those DVDs are not guaranteed to work on standalone DVD players so I'd not use that route.
Basically, what I'd like to acheive is a nicely-edited home movie with titles etc, to put onto DVD & VHS, of a 2.5 hour classical concert, in as good a quality, audio/visually as I can, from the two types of footage, spliced as cleanly as possible. The footage is continuous, but the media changes from cassette to mpeg at a certain point.
Don't exceed ~70-75 minutes with iDVD because after this the quality starts to drop. Toast 7 can burn somewhat longer high quality DVDs than iDVD because it uses compressed AC3 audio so it doesn't "steal" bandwidth from video as iDVD does with its uncompressed PCM audio. But compressing that low quality audio might not be a good idea either!

Spinning beach ball and MPEG Streamclip

I've downloaded MPEG Streamclip to transfer some Video TS files from a DVD. The files are copied to my desktop and I've tried to open the files using MPEG Streamclip and all I get is the spinning beach ball.
Any ideas on how to get these files to open?
Cheers,
D

I'm afraid that it might be copyrighted material, though I was told that it wasn't.
I tried opening up the two VOB files together, the ones Streamclip highlighted, and continued to get the beach ball, then I opened the files individually. One file gave me timecode break warnings but eventually opened up as the title menu. The other file gives me the spinning beach ball.
Cheers,
D

AVI to Apple TV Conversion (mpeg Streamclip not working for me)

Hi all,
I have .avi video I'd like to watch on Apple TV. I tried using MPEG Streamclip as I read about on the forum, but when I convert the file on the default settings all I get is audio; the picture is blank.
Any thoughts?

I should add that I don't see any video when I import it to Streamclip, just the dice logo.
Wierd! In that case, it sounds like the problem may be MPEG Streamclip and its access of the QT components. Which version do you have installed? Do QT components comply with MPEG Streamclip recommendations? Is Perian installed and if so did you get rid of any potential component conflicts as recommended on its site?

Are my settings correct for .m2t transfer through mpeg streamclip?

hello,
i shot a video on the **sony hvr z7u** using compact flash cards and the video was shot on 1080i ...all the files are currently in m2t...
i used mpeg streamclip and used the follow settings:
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thank you!
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Optimal settings for MPEG Streamclip convering mpgs to quicktime format

Hello Folks,
a newbie to this video converting world.
I've got loads of mpgs from the past, which I'm trying to convert to Quicktime(mov) format for use on my apple tv and also to publish to DVDs.
I tried the following:
- Compression - Apple Intermediate Codec
- Quality - 100%.
My 1G mpg file was converted to a 10G file!! I dont think I can afford to convert at this rate.
Can someone recommend an optimal setting on MPEG streamclip for this conversion with a balance on file size/quality?
thanks in advance!
karthik

No. You would need to upscale to HD and that's never good. Some TVs, expensive ones, can uprez fairly well, most can't. SD just looks very poor on an HD display.
Yes, sorry, the frame size needs to be 720x480, the standard DV format. Funny, I knew as I was typing it that there was something I was forgetting to include.
Message was edited by: Tom Wolsky

Mpeg streamclip needs codec

i am trying to help a friend convert a section of video from a dvd to a dv stream so he can edit it in final cut.
but when i installed MPEG Streamclip and open the program on his computer - it tells me that i do not have the necessary codecs.
i've come across this problem in the past- how do i determine which codecs are needed and install them?
thanks...

You need the mpeg2 component for Quicktime. It can be downloaded ($) from the Apple Quicktime webpage.
And, you do NOT want the material in DV stream format after conversion. That is the format iMovie edits. You will want it in DV-NTSC (or DV-PAL).
x

Best export for a .VOB from MPEG Streamclip to iMovie?

Hi,
My source is a DVD and I want to make sure that the two minutes I end up with in iMovie is of the best quality.
I own the Quicktime MPEG-2 thing and, becase of timecode errors, I have opened the .VOB in MPEG Streamclip and I am asking myself, "Which Export, Convert, Demux do I use?"
In the discussions I have seen a lot of recommendations for Exporting to a DV Stream.
If this is the best quality, which compression? DV25, DV25PRO or DV50PRO? Additionally, aside from checking "Split DV Stream...", what other options (Frame blending, deinterlace, better downscaling) should I check?
What about simply Demuxing the VOB and placing the mpeg2/aiff into iMovie -> contents-> media? Can iMovie handle a mpeg2 and, if so, wouldn't that allow the greatest amount of flexibility?
BTW - I don't know what the end product is going to be, which is why I want to have the flexibilty and highest quality.
Thanks!

Video-DVDs (VOBs inside the VIDEO_TS folders) use 48 kHz audio so you don't need to touch the resample button in MPEG Streamclip.
I don't want to lose information if I don't have to.
Yes... You are already dealing with a VOB -> DV conversion which degrades quality... If possible, I'd get the original source and digitize that to DV, so there wouln't be any quality degradation from the detour to DVD.
Or, if that fails, edit the VOBs with apps like MPEG Streamclip -- that won't degrade DVD quality level either. But then you'd have to forget the iLife apps because they don't support this kinb of workflow.

MPEG Streamclip or iSquint?

Just got the wife the 5G iPod and we're taking a test drive on MPEG Streamclip. I know video conversions take hours, and the conversion of a 700MB Pink Panther AVI will not spare us this ordeal.
We're getting down to the 8th hour on MPEG Streamclip, and it's 81% complete. Azureus is running with one download, so perhaps processor speed might be compromised a bit. We used Streamclip's 'iPod' setting for this instance, with a data rate of 800kbps.
Music videos have taken 15-20 minutes on average. We'll give iSquint a go next.
What kind of experiences have you had with these 2 converters? Can conversions get any faster?

I only use Streamclip, and it works well for me. ANytime you have to convert files, it "naturally" takes time. I espically like it because it has the iPod option in "export to mp4" that perfectly formats the video for the iPod.
If you ever download files off the internet, 800 kbps is very fast. So, this shows the streamclip is one of the fastest out there...

Can't import into iMovie even after converting files with Mpeg streamclip

Hi,
I have been trying to create iMovie proejcts with .mpeg, .mpg, .mpa. IMovie could not import the files (it tells me it's an uknown error). Then, using mpeg streamclip and exporting the files to quicktime, DV and Avi (tried all the formats that I knew iMovie would support) iMovie still wouldn't import the files.
What am I doing wrong? I have the latest version of iMovie.
Please Help!
Thank you!!!

Have you done the conversion like this:
To convert a DVD or MPEG to DV with MPEG Streamclip (v1.8 or later): Open a desired .VOB on a DVD (DVD/VIDEOTS/VTS_011.VOB, for example) or a MPEG file.
Select the In/Out points if you want to extract just a portion of the video.
Choose "File/Export to DV.../Compression: DV (DV25)". Choose the same video format (PAL/NTSC) as the iMovie project is.
Choose "Split DV stream in Segments" if the content is more than 9 minutes 27 seconds because iMovie 1-4 can't reliably handle longer clip files and it might be a good idea to limit the converted .dv file's size anyway (segmented clips play seamlessly in iMovie).
...and is there enough room on the HD where the iMovie project is? 60 minutes of .dv is 13 GB and iMovie duplicates an imported .dv file so you need 26 GB/hour (unless you use the secret shortcut that prevents the duplication .

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