07-12-2007, 06:20 AM
Follow up -
After further research, the original Motion JPEG from the Canon A540 imports in about 3 minutes...converting it to DV in VisualHub prior to import actually *increases* the import time to 8 mins (and I thought DV was the "native" format of iMovie).
Yet... the H.264 mp4s from Handbrake import without any wait time at all...they just show up and are instantly usable/editable.
Very very strange... I'd still like to replicate what Handbrake is doing on all files, any ideas?
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Update: Here is what Handbrake looked like when I did the ripping...the only thing I changed from the default was codecs from MPEG-4 Video / AAC Audio to AVC/H.264 Video / AAC Audio. Everything else I left the same.
http://myskitch.com/benhinc/handbrake-20...012404.png
Here are the VisualHub settings...again, nothing out of the ordinary, just standard MP4 settings with the H.264 box checked...nothing specified in the Advanced settings.
http://myskitch.com/benhinc/_visualhub_-...012752.png
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Update Again: Does this all have something to do with VisualHub being a front end for ffmpeg and Handbrake using the x264 encoder instead of ffmpeg? I am doing a Quicktime Pro export to H.264 MP4 to see if I get the same results as Handbrake...I know it's not using ffmpeg.
After further research, the original Motion JPEG from the Canon A540 imports in about 3 minutes...converting it to DV in VisualHub prior to import actually *increases* the import time to 8 mins (and I thought DV was the "native" format of iMovie).
Yet... the H.264 mp4s from Handbrake import without any wait time at all...they just show up and are instantly usable/editable.
Very very strange... I'd still like to replicate what Handbrake is doing on all files, any ideas?
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Update: Here is what Handbrake looked like when I did the ripping...the only thing I changed from the default was codecs from MPEG-4 Video / AAC Audio to AVC/H.264 Video / AAC Audio. Everything else I left the same.
http://myskitch.com/benhinc/handbrake-20...012404.png
Here are the VisualHub settings...again, nothing out of the ordinary, just standard MP4 settings with the H.264 box checked...nothing specified in the Advanced settings.
http://myskitch.com/benhinc/_visualhub_-...012752.png
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Update Again: Does this all have something to do with VisualHub being a front end for ffmpeg and Handbrake using the x264 encoder instead of ffmpeg? I am doing a Quicktime Pro export to H.264 MP4 to see if I get the same results as Handbrake...I know it's not using ffmpeg.