The other day I was talking to my buddy Patrick over at KEF media,
who hipped me to this great free video converter which work great for all formats. MPEG STREAMCLIP at http://www.squared5.com/
MPEG Streamclip is a powerful free video converter, player, editor for Mac and
Windows. It can play many movie files, not only MPEGs; it can convert MPEG files between muxed/demuxed formats for authoring; it can encode movies to many formats, including iPod; it can cut, trim and join movies. MPEG Streamclip can also download videos from YouTube and Google by entering the page URL.
I own a Sony EX1R which if you didn't know it can shoot HD and SD, the problem i ran into is that on my first SD shoot with it I realized that the file it saves the clip on are .avi. Final Cut Pro does not like .avi files so I had to switch over to Adobe Premiere Pro to complete the job. I had remember Patrick telling me about MPEG STREAMCLIP so I tried some test runs and it worked!! Granted it did take a couple of trys but is did a great job.
You can Batch convert with this bad boy too!
Here are some of the supported input formats: MPEG, VOB, PS, M2P, MOD, VRO, DAT, MOV, DV, AVI, MP4, TS, M2T, MMV, REC, VID, AVR, M2V, M1V, MPV, AIFF, M1A, MP2, MPA, AC3
MPEG STREAMCLIP has close to hundred compression types. From Apple ProRes 422 to DVCPRO HD.
Check it out! It's Free!!!!
Peace,
Kevin
