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[some_stars]

so this is something I should probably find out now, and not in several weeks: is it possible to vid from .mp4 files on a PC? Because if not, there's some shit I'm gonna have to track down...somehow.

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[giandujakiss]

Yes. I know that at least one thing you can do is use MPEG streamclip to convert them to .mov.

[some_stars]

....and then I can vid with .mov, in Windows? :D?

[giandujakiss]

I've never had any trouble. I mean, I don't know what program you're using, but I found that Adobe Premiere loves .mov files - esp if you strip out the sound (when you convert to mov using MPEG streamclip, you just have to tell it not to include the audio - there's a dropdown menu). The bigger issue might be getting MPEG streamclip to work, if you haven't used it before; that sometimes takes some wrestling.

You might also be able to convert them to avi using Vdub, but I don't remember.

[some_stars]

ohhhh. Yeah, I always make clips and then import the clips, I can't work on the macro level until I know exactly what my pieces are. (Of course I always go back and pull another dozen clips or so that I didn't realize I would need, but like, overall. *g*) Can I do that in MPEG streamclip or does it just do the whole file?

[giandujakiss]

you can do that with mpeg streamclip - you open the file, and you mark the inpoint and the outpoint.

[some_stars]

YAY \o/ one of eighteen million potential catastrophes: averted!

[shati]

I've had the best results using an avs script with:

FFVideoSource("filegoeshere", threads=1)

The threads part I think only is only needed if it's H264?

[shati]

Without the threads part, I'd get an "insanity detected" error at some point scrubbing through the footage, which was deeply surreal the first few times. And it was always at a different point. It was like the Abominable Snowman in that skiing game.

[some_stars]

oh GOD avisynth again, the last time i tried it everything went wrong just like the first time i tried it. there's no way i'm going to get through this project without avisynth, probably, but: AAAAARGH :(

(thank you)

[shati]

it's like whenever you post a vidding question I fall out of the sky shouting AVISYNTH!! It's all I know ;_;

[some_stars]

I honestly think I'm under some kind of curse. It works SO WELL for everyone else!! why

[shati]

it can smell fear

[eruthros]

Yes, definitely! The way I do it is mostly using an avisynth text editor -> virtualdub, which I got a walkthrough for from the amv.org technical guide, and which I would be happy to walk you through on IM sometime if you want.

To avoid avisynth, though, I used to use mpeg streamclip, and that works fine. Mpeg streamclip can export to avi, mov, dv, etc. But it might cost some money, possibly, for codecs, depending on what's already installed on your system and what you want to export to.