If you live in 1 state in the USA and drive 30 miles into another state, your drivers licence/car insurance, the gas your car uses, should be standard across, if this was not the case, then consumers in this case drivers would make damn sure the situation changed. The real reason for the rant for which I apologize for is really a petty squabble over old outdated technology that does not really serve any useful purpose, it is akin to Apple having 1 form of USB2.0, and my HP having a different version, this so does not help the consumer of the product, and I am quite shocked really that no one is making a fuss over this, why should we just accept this state of play? I am in South Africa at this point, buying apps off the app store is not a simple process, in order to buy off the app store I would need to purchase a gift card from the istore, and they are not cheap, the minimum the card can be loaded with is R150 local SA currency, roughly $15, right now this is just not possible, lights/phone and food need to be bought ahead of itunes cards. MPEG Streamclip with the current ffmpeg library enabled can do a great job of most any codecs to prores as it works outside the QT enabled codecs. Transcoding fragile codecs directly to prores is the best way to avoid extra picture loss if we can no longer rewrap to MOV. (Granted a manly coin purse.)ĭoes anyone recall what app can be used to rewrap AVI files to MOV? I used one on a job from 720 footage from a canon point and shoot long ago. I was not aware of that app, and I will soon be. So much good advice and good cheer on X-Mas day. Till the end of boxing day I will consider him Ronny Claus. I think we can all agree Ronny owned Christmas this year. Or you can just rant at the people who are sending you weird files in unconventional formats and tell them to send you decent video files instead As soon as you know what kind of file this actually is we may be able to tell you how you can convert it to a normal format. One of the best utilities to find out the format of a file is MediaInfo: /app/mediainfo/id510620098Īt 99 cents it's a steal. The first thing you should do when you receive a file in a weird format is to find out what the format really is (AVI is not a format, it's just a container just like Quicktime). VLC can play a lot of weird formats (and some even VLC cannot play), so yes you could try to export it from there.

It's really up to the people who create the files to send them to you in a format that can be played on any platform without the need of extra converters. An AVI container can hold the weirdest formats, some of them cannot even be opened on Windows computers.

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