Streamclip

I don't know where else to post this question, but the result of what I'm doing came from the Quicktime forum so here we go...I have a DVD that has two thirty minute shows on it (television shows which I produced). I need to convert them to a quicktime format so they can be imported into FCP and then written to disc. I see, and have successfully transcoded the first show. The second titled VTS21.VOB is not seen by Streamclip. Nothing I can do to the file makes it available to the application. Any ideas why? The first file worked just fine.

The second titled VTS21.VOB is not seen by Streamclip. Nothing I can do to the file makes it available to the application. Any ideas why? The first file worked just fine.When you say "is not seen by Streamclip" I assume you are trying to use the "Open Files..." File menu option and either the named file does not appear in the navigation window or it is "grayed out." If so and the file icon itself "can be seen" by the finder, have you tried simply "dropping" it on the work area to see if it will open? Assuming this fails, and it well might, you could try using a utility like MacTheRipper to extract the data stream at the "title" or "cell" option level and then import/dropp that file to Streamclip.

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How do I get Streamclip AVI files that were saved without first installing Quicktime ALternative 1.81 to play in Premiere Elements 11?

I had Hi-8 "home movie" tapes transferred to mp4 files. To pull many short clips from these long files, I used MPEG Streamclip 1.2. The default save for these short clips was mp4. Either they didn't work in Adobe Premiere Elements 11 or I thought they wouldn't -- I can't recall now -- so I saved each clip as AVI. These AVI files won't play at all in Premier Elements. I Googled for advice and found that I needed to convert to Quicktime Alternate 1.81. I fear this had to be done before I saved the clips, but I didn't realize that. Still, I just now uninstalled Quicktime 7 and installed Quicktime 1.81, then tried converting the AVI clips files, first back to MP4 (didn't work at all in PE11) and then to MOV (only played audio). The AVI files play fine in Windows Media Player and VLC. All I have are the original files saved as AVI in Streamclip. Is there any way to get these to play and be editable in Premiere Elements 11? I've attached a jpeg capture of a gspot readout for one of these files. THANKS!

kidimi
Glad that you finally sorted out what you were doing and discovered DV AVI.
In your particular situation Prism would serve your purposes of generating the DV AVI 4:3 since your footage is 640 x 480. However, for others with different footage, the free Prism shortcoming is that it cannot offer DV AVI widescreen 16:9; whereas MPEG Streamclip can do the job for 16:9 as well as 4:3.
QuickTime Alternative 1.8.1 that does come with the MPEG Streamclip's required MPEG2 Playback Component (free) also meets the Premiere Elements requirement for QuickTime installed on computer with Premiere Elements to work. This works in spite of the fact that QuickTime Alternative 1.8.1 is not the latest version of the regular QuickTIme.
In post 2 of the following older thread, I detail the use of Prism (for 4:3) and MPEG Streamclip (for 4:3 and 16:9) to produce the DV AVI file.
Finished video of project looks "weird" / slightly choppy? - Elements Village
Any questions or need clarification, please do not hesitate to ask.
Moving forward, do not use AVCHD (MPEG4 AVC/H.264) or H.264.avi in Premiere Elements. It is not supported.
ATR

Mpeg Streamclip DVD settings for FCP...trying to preserve quality

I'm very new at editing, so please bear with me!
I am creating a director's reel for myself using footage on DVD. I'm ripping the DVDs with MPEG Streamclip to DV NTSC then importing to FCP and finally exporting to DVD.
My problem is--there is an egregious quality loss through this process. Basically is there a better codec than DV NTSC to use in MPEG Streamclip?
I'm having to render my clips in Final Cut which leads me to believe I'm adding an unnecessary step of compression/de-compression. Also, the DV NTSC quicktime doesn't look so bad until I put it in Final Cut...then it looks awful. Am I messing up an import setting?
Finally-- When I load my clip in final cut it loads it anamorphic and I'm having to right click my clip after I load it to the bin, search it's video settings, and de-click "anamorphic" in order to get the right aspect ratio (16:9)...am I doing something wrong there?? Is that messing with the quality?
I realize that this is a basic question, but I literally have spent 3 hours searching for an answer and haven't found one, so please forgive me if it's repetitive! And obviously I'm stuck using the DVDs...I have no option to get the uncompressed original footage. Thanks!!

razini wrote:
I'm very new at editing, so please bear with me!
No problem, we all were at one time. Welcome to the family.
razini wrote:
I'm ripping the DVDs with MPEG Streamclip to DV NTSC then importing to FCP and finally exporting to DVD.
My problem is--there is an egregious quality loss through this process. Basically is there a better codec than DV NTSC to use in MPEG Streamclip?
Shouldn't be. But transcoding form MPEG2 to DV can get messy. I use DVDxDV for unwrapping MPEG2 form DVDs.
razini wrote:
I'm having to render my clips in Final Cut which leads me to believe I'm adding an unnecessary step of compression/de-compression. Also, the DV NTSC quicktime doesn't look so bad until I put it in Final Cut...then it looks awful. Am I messing up an import setting?
You should not be rendering in FCP, this suggests your sequence is not set to be plain ol' DV.
razini wrote:
Finally-- When I load my clip in final cut it loads it anamorphic and I'm having to right click my clip after I load it to the bin, search it's video settings, and de-click "anamorphic" in order to get the right aspect ratio (16:9)...am I doing something wrong there?? Is that messing with the quality?
If your clips are not anamorphic, your sequence is set incorrectly. Start with a new sequence and make sure it is set to DV.
razini wrote:
I realize that this is a basic question, but I literally have spent 3 hours searching for an answer and haven't found one...
Yeah, video is like that.
bogiesan

HD equivalent of streamclip

Please excuse the length of my question (I like to explain myself fully to be understood) as I may have asperger's syndrome.
(at the moment I have version 8.0 but am saving up for a new laptop and will buy the latest version early next year)
Let's pretend for a moment that we're back in the era where HD is so new that hardly anyone here has it.
It took a long time to find the perfect way to prepare (SD) videos to bring in to PE. Along comes (thanks to this forum) Streamclip which is the super solution I've longed for for years. That can convert MPEGs and VOBs beautifully into DVC pro - a variant of DV-avi and viola! Lovely clean videos that Prem El works with, just as well as if they were captured from your miniDV camera through firewire. Solved.
Now. Prem El nowadays lets you begin a project with an MPEG setting, I suppose for the newer camcorders that film in MPEG onto memory cards and the like. Although this works well, and it seems that Prem El is now working natively with MPEG (note that I said "seems") some still swear by starting your project in the good old DV setting, and streamclip is the best way to prep your vid bits. I think this is still the case in 2012 with the current PE version (where are we now, 11? Something like that).
Okay so as long as streamclip can bring it in, you're sorted. Only in the rare instance that you have a clip that streamclip can't bring in (and that is rare), must you first convert it into MPEG (or whatever) first, but it's not often that you have to have this other layer of complexity. So, working in standard definition where the end result burning a DVD is completely sorted - apart from one thing - don't mix pal and ntsc clips together in the same project, unless you don't care that you'll get motion issues. Set your project settings to the what is the majority of your clips is. Use G Spot to tell you the frame rate, and if all but one of your clips is NTSC, then set your project as - oh you get the point.
OK let's move on. Now I AM gonna talk about HD now.
I have prem El 8, and I've been given the challenge by my bosses (we show student films and things for education events - all copyright considerations are sorted) to go to the next level and make a compilation of HD clips and show them with either a blu ray, or a DOREMI cinema player (creating DCPs is easy so I'm not asking you about that)
I've started testing these, and HD clips are a curious animal, as they come with many screen resolutions and frame rates, with more codecs doing them justice with no artifacts that as was in the SD world.
I was so spoilt with Streamclip making everything PremEL ready in SD that I now have a thirst to find something like it, that can take a whole load of different HD clips, and convert them beautifully into something that PremEl loves.
Does there exist a thing of such wonder?
Also despite what is says in the Share section (export full 1920x1080 in H264 etc) My Prem El. Version only exports its timeline in what turns out to be Mt2, then I have to use something else to convert it into H264 or .Mov.
Do more recent versions or Prem El export into a larger range of codecs?
I don't mind paying a small amount for extra software, but not if I know that future Prem El's mean I don't have to.
thank you for being patient.
mj

The best program for working with a variety of clips and converting them to a common format is Quicktime Pro, which costs $29 and can be downloaded from Apple.com. It may not work with everything out there (since mobile phone and camcorder makers keep inventing new codecs all the time) but it should work with most.
Another great video converter is the Aunsoft Video Converter, a $35 download.
If you're looking for an editing program that you just dump whatever you want into it without regard to format, iMovie does a very good job with virtually any format -- though, of course, this program is only available in the Mac format.

Why does De-interlacing looks better with MPEG StreamClip?

For our client we need to render 1080i for TV and 1080p for WEB. After creating graphics in AE we add final touch and audio in PR.
If we make it progressive in PR (CC2014.1) the zoom in the packshot does not look good.
However if we make the 1080i ProRes progressive in MPEG Streamclip the zoom does look great.
How is it possible a freeware swiss army-knife makes a better progressive export than commercial software?
Or is there something we do wrong?
Herewith links to the ProRes material:
1 1080i rendered from AE: http://gvs.ftpaccess.cc/_q8w_U9SXYWR6tR
2 1080p rendered from AE: http://gvs.ftpaccess.cc/_WSw7A_kh-W66sR
3 1080p rendered with PR: http://gvs.ftpaccess.cc/_dAxuZAvbVWP6AR
4 1080p rendered with MPEG StreamClip: http://gvs.ftpaccess.cc/_nQwqP-HqMWz6FR
Please do not use this material elsewhere except for testing purposes.
Thank you in advance!
Ivery Barel
Gooi & Vecht Studio - Netherlands
OSX 10.9.5. Mavericks

ok
just to illustrate the problem a little better, here's the actual difference
this is what I have in Lightroom after editing:
and here's what I get after exporting

Why do my DV files look better when played in MPEG Streamclip than iMovie?

My home movie DV files look washed out (compared to what my tapes looked like I played them on the TV years ago) when played with both iMovie '06 and iMove '11. The claim has been made that if I retransfer my tapes using iMovie '06 (rather than '09, which I used last time, or '11), there will be a dramatic improvement in the visual quality (and there will be some unspecified benefits if I set the dial to 48K audio). HOWEVER, if I play the files I already have in MPEG Streamclip, the visual quality improves substantially without any retransfer. Here is my question: Why? Why do my iMovie-imported files look better in MPEG Streamclip than in iMovie?
Here is my layman's answer: algorithms. When MPEG Streamclip encounters the exact same arrangements of molecules (or whatever), it has some plan for what to do with them that is smarter than what iMovie does. Is this another sign or way that iMovie is not well suited for DV?

Please go to my website where I have posted new instructions on working with DV.
This keeps both interlaced fields from FireWire capture through to a DVD. All the lines means no lost quality when editing DV or Digital8.
It also solves the washed-out color problem.

Using MPEG Streamclip for Mac. Help me if you can

Hi, I've found out about MPEG Streamclip in Apple Discussions.
I opened Streamclip for the first time and converted an .mpg file to .mov file by clicking File>Export to Quicktime. It successfully converted quickly and I opened it w/ Quicktime and was satisfied to open its properties and see two individual tracks for visual and audio. This should convert to iPod video format w/ sound, correct? What bugs me is the fact that the file size multiplied by 4, or went from 256MB to 1GB.
I would like to know the perfect exporting settings for good iPod quality (sound and visual) and reasonable size. What scares me is that if and when this newly 1GB file is converted to iPod, it'll be even larger, since a previously successfully converted movie went from 3.5MB to 5.1MB.
I'd like to know your experiences of using Streamclip. Should I experiment? What setting did you use to get the mpeg files to .mov files with smallest size and equivalent quality? Any reply is appreciated, and ones that answer my questions shall be favoured.
thnx for your time

In a nutshell, YES you should experiment. You should also try iSquint incidentally.
However, MPEG Streamclip 1.5.1 has an iPod button if you do File -> Export to MPEG4. Clicking that button sets the parameters to equal what the iPod would need to display without having to convert to a QuickTime movie first. Do one both ways to see if QuickTime and MPEG Streamclip's output looks identical (I've found QuickTime does a better job on animation).

TS1859 I have a .mov file that won't play in QuickTime Player, MPEG Streamclip or in FCP but plays in VLC, how can I convert it so I can use it in FCP?

I have a .mov file that won't play in QuickTime Player, MPEG Streamclip or in FCP but plays in VLC, how can I convert it so I can use it in FCP?

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Iphone, Ipad, Apple TV Video in FCP 6 using Streamclip? SETTINGS?

I've seen a million posts on this but none of them are complete with the answer.
I have a screen recording that I made on my MAC saved as IPHONE, IPAD, APPLE TV setting. Maybe that was a mistake but there's no going back.
(I'm assuming that the proces is the same for iphone video too)
WHAT SETTINGS DO I USE IN MPEGSTREAMCLIP TO GET THIS INTO FCP 6?
WHAT SETTINGS TO I MATCH THE SEQUENCE WITH IN FCP?
I'VE INCLUDED THE PRO RES OPTIONS. BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT I'VE BEEN TRYING.
THANKS IN ADVANCE!

Your screen recording uses the H.264 codec. It doesn't work well at all in FCP.
Run it through MPEG Streamclip again and export to QuickTime using the ProRes LT codec.

How to Recover a bad DVD made with DVD v7? Streamclip?

I have a several copies of a DVD made from a iMovie(8.04) & i DVD(7.04) that will not play. They either freeze in middle, or at the first menu, or show that they are skipping over damaged sections. I don't have the original iMovie files or video clips. I tried copying tje DVD with Disk Utility to a DVD/CD master. It failed with input output errors. I tried copying with Toast and disk recovery on it copied but copied disk will not mount in player. It was suggested to try Streamclip, I got Streamclip and opened the VOB files fine and they play perfectly, then I tried to export them to Quicktime, DV,MPEG and AVI..so I could bring them back into iMovie and then to iDVD again....no matter what I choose as "export to" Streamclip says it cannot create the file. What am I missing here. Do I need some add on to Streamclip? Is there a better way?

Not 100% certain if anything will help your particular situation. However, it's possible you may also need apple's MPEG2 Playback component (that or an update).
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=10201945&#10201945
Another option might be to use DVDXDV (try it for free):
http://www.dvdxdv.com/NewFolderLookSite/Products/DVDxDV.products.htm
Your choice.
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No audio in Quicktime AVI files in MPEG Streamclip

When I import a Quicktime AVI file into MPEG Streamclip to edit, there is no audio. Annoyingly, if I convert that AVI file into an MP4 file and then import it into Streamclip the audio is working; but the loss of image quality is not acceptable. Any suggestions? Thanks

*A few suggestions:*
Repair permissions & restart
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=300832 Mac OS X: No audio from certain multimedia content
Trick/Tip: Open up GarageBand if installed then, open a program (optional).
Quit out of the GarageBand app.

Batch processing in MPEG Streamclip

I have been given over 200 MPEG-1 clips with muxed audio to make a movie in iMovie. Dragging them right in will remove the audio, so I need to convert them to DV-PAL first
I tried MPEG Streamclip 1.8 and 1.9b2. The manual implies that I in "Batch List" should be able to add more than one file at the time. Not so. If I drag a bunch of files from the Finder into the Batch window, I'm asked what to do ("Export as DV"), where to save the converted files, enter conversion options and then I find that only the first file is added to the list.
So I tried the "Add Files..." button. "Files" is plural, but NOOOoooo. I was asked the same questions as above, but only the first file was added to the list.
Adding over 200 files and answer the same 3 dialogs for each and every one is tedious.
I have QT Pro, so I tried to create a "reference movie" containing a bunch of the mpg files. In QT player all clips play fine, but in MPEG Streamclip, only the first clip was converted. (sigh).
Now what? What is the magic trick to convert mpegs in batch mode?
Is there any other application that converts in batch?
Mac OS X 10.4.10, preferred language Swedish.
QT 7.1.6.

I have MPEG Streamclip 1.8, Mac OS X 10.3.9, QT 7.1.6, no Flip4Mac etc installed.
If I drag a bunch of files from the Finder into the Batch window, I'm asked what to do ("Export as DV"), where to save the converted files, enter conversion options and then I find that only the first file is added to the list.
With my setup all (five) MPEGs were added to the list and the conversion options were asked only once. And all files were processed.
So I tried the "Add Files..." button. "Files" is plural, but NOOOoooo. I was asked the same questions as above, but only the first file was added to the list.
With my setup all (five) MPEGs were added to the list and the conversion options were asked only once. And all files were processed.
Did you choose "Join all the files" in the conversion options? THEN only the very first input MPEG is processed (all the input DV files are processed, though). Seems like a bug with the MPEG input. But was that your problem?

Urgent!! Problems muxing .m2v files and audio!! MPEG Streamclip/Compressor

Hello!
I am under an urgent deadline to upload a short 6 min documentary clip for a client to review for screening this week. The footage was shot in 1080/60i HDV.
Usually, I find the best quality and fastest way to do this is to export directly from my FCP sequence using the '150 min Best Quality' DVD settings in compressor to get an .m2v video file and .ac3 audio file. Then I open the .m2v files in MPEG Streamclip which links it with my .ac3 file, then do 'Export MPEG with MP-2 audio". This gives me a single, muxed file that I can then upload to YouTube or Vimeo.
However, with this project, when I open up my .m2v file in MPEG Streamclip, it's recognizing the .ac3 file and I can see the info for it in the MPEG Streamclip window, but when I play the file in MPEG Streamclip or mux it, I don't hear any audio. Furthermore, after about 5 seconds into the clip, the playhead will continue moving, but the video will freeze, then maybe pick up again later. The .m2v video will play back smoothly in VLC player or Quicktime player, but not in MPEG Streamclip.
I've tried exporting different little sections of the timeline to see if maybe I had some corrupted footage or whatnot. I even exported a small clip from an older HDV project to test. But no matter where I export from, I am running into the same problem. I can bring the .m2v file and .ac3 file into DVD Studio Pro and burn a DVD with no problem, but I can't mux them. If I build the DVD file in DVD SP and try to open the .VOB file with MPEG Streamclip, I get the same problem. I even tried using a different software to mux (ffmpegX) but to no avail. When I try with ffmpegX, it either tells me I'm dropping frames, or if it works and it muxes it, when I open the MPEG file, it'll stutter at about 5 seconds in as well and I can't hear any audio, even though there is supposed to be audio in the muxed file.
I think I might have updated my Quicktime a few days ago with the system update, and maybe updated a few other things, so I don't know if this has any bearing on the problems I'm running into. But I was able just a few days ago to export HDV 1080/60i using this workflow without any problems.
I realize I have other export options, but this always seems to me to be the best quality and fastest way of doing it vs. encoding an H.264 which, on my machine is RIDICULOUSLY slow...I need to be uploading multiple versions of the cut to the client, and really need help! Thanks so much in advance!
J

what you want is an m2v program file. Export a reference copy from FCP (uncheck Make Movie Self Contained") That's very fast. Bring it into Compressor. In the settings panel find the MPEG-2 settings folder. Select Program Stream. Adjust to your liking and run. The audio and video will already be "muxed" when it's done and using compressor 3 you can set it to upload to YouTube, Mobile or similar sites.

Convert a movie from Quicktime to MPEG4 in MPEG Streamclip

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:
http://downloadcenter.samsung.com/content/UM/201112/20111208190112921/Web_GSDVBE UA_GER.pdf
Auf Seite 251 finden Sie für MPEG4-Videos folgende Beschränkung: Bei "mehr als 1280 x 720: max. 30 Frames".
Als Alternative schlagen wir Ihnen vor, Ihr MacBook Pro per HDMI direkt an den Fernseher anzuschließen, die Videos auf dem MacBook Pro abzuspielen und den Fernseher als Monitor zu verwenden. In diesem Fall entfallen die vorher genannten Beschränkungen."
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?
For my one use it is o.k. if the movie can be seen correctly in MPEG4 on my TV but I can also watch it via my MBP on my TV via HDMI.

What option should I use in Streamclip?

So I have some mpeg-2 video files, and I have downloaded the codec to view them in Quicktime. They do play and also play in FCE, but have no audio. So I'm using MPEG Streamclip to convert the files to hear the audio, but how should I export them? I tried one using the Quicktime conversion and the H.264 compression, but I still have to render that in FCE. Is there any other file conversion to where I can convert my files to one that is compatible with FCE and not have to render it?

Here's the basic setup you should use --> Using MPEG Streamclip

How do i use proper settings in mpeg streamclip with m2t files?

hello,
i have seen this discussion before but not sure what codec i need to transfer to for my type of files...
i shot a video on the **sony hvr z7u** using compact flash cards and the video was shot on 1080i 24 frames per second...all the files are currently in m2t...
i used mpeg streamclip and used the follow settings:
-apple motion jpeg a
-100 percent quality
-uncompressed sound
-frame size: 1920 x 1080 (unscaled)
-interlaced scaling was checked
although the files are workable in FCP the files themselves are gigantic...did i use the correct settings?
thanks very much,
steven

Steve
Download and install Sony's Compact Flash and Portable Recording Unit Log and Transfer plugin (BPE-SS-038D): http://support.sonybiz.net/software/detail.aspx?id=BPE-SS-038D&model=HVR-DR60
Andy

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