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# Wednesday, January 10, 2007

Best way to convert digicam videos?

Um, the videos that our Canon PowerShot takes are huge. I can manually open them in movie maker and reduce their size by an order of magnitude.

Does anyone know of a good automated way to do this that does not involve writing a bunch of scripts and creating profiles for Windows Media Encoder?

Posted Wednesday, January 10, 2007    Permalink    Comments [5]  View blog reactions

 

Wednesday, January 10, 2007 10:54:57 AM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)
I was actually trying other way around - copy videos taken elsewhere for viewing in Powershot - no luck. Any idea what that video supposed to be converted to?
Oleg
Wednesday, January 10, 2007 11:41:59 AM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)
What format are they?

I just use ffmpeg (command line) for all my conversion needs. It converts dang near everything. You should be able to script it simply in all your recent spare time now that you're not "working" (LOL, I tried to tell my wife that, she's been a SAHM for a year now with our son and she's beat!)
Sean
Wednesday, January 10, 2007 11:52:28 AM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)
Well...this isn't exactly automated like you were looking, but its a great tool for converting practically anything to whatever video target format you desire.

AVS Video Tools
http://www.avsmedia.com/VideoTools/
Wednesday, January 10, 2007 2:20:10 PM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)
Videora or FFMPEG
Scott Hanselman
Wednesday, January 10, 2007 6:28:16 PM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)
The easiest method I'e used is probably FFMPEG like others mentioned although it's command line.

If you want to try AVS tools, you can score them from here (excuse me while I pimp my product):

http://www.windowsmarketplace.com/results.aspx?text=avs%20video%20tools&tabid=1


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