Sasha Harris-Cronin

I looked through archives and couldn't find a definitive answer. Is there anyway to write to disc using jit.qt.grab with an mpeg2 codec? Apple's mpeg2 codec is for decoding, not encoding.

I looked through archives and couldn't find a definitive answer.  Is there anyway to write to disc using jit.qt.grab with an mpeg2 codec?  Apple's mpeg2 codec is for decoding, not encoding.

recording-mpeg2

a better idea would be to record using apple intermediate codec, and 

On Sep 28, 2007, at 7:58 PM, Sasha Harris-Cronin wrote:

> I looked through archives and couldn't find a definitive answer. 

> Is there anyway to write to disc using jit.qt.grab with an mpeg2 

> codec? Apple's mpeg2 codec is for decoding, not encoding.

a better idea would be to record using apple intermediate codec, and  
then render to mpeg2 from that.

>
> I looked through archives and couldn't find a definitive answer.   
> Is there anyway to write to disc using jit.qt.grab with an mpeg2  
> codec?  Apple's mpeg2 codec is for decoding, not encoding.
>
> Thanks.
>
> sasha.
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> --- sasha harris-cronin ----
> -- sasha@mortalspaces.com --
> --- www.mortalspaces.com ---
>


Thanks, Josh. This is for a museum, and the setup is that the museum visitors will burn their movies to DVD using a kiosk backended to toast. Currently, the video input is through a Canopus and I am writing to disc using DV. Toast is doing the re-encoding to MPEG-2 and creating the VIDEO_TS folder, etc. It takes a dogs age for Toast to encode, of course.

Do you think re-encoding from the intermediate codec will be faster?

Thanks, Josh.  This is for a museum, and the setup is that the museum visitors will burn their movies to DVD using a kiosk backended to toast.  Currently, the video input is through a Canopus and I am writing to disc using DV.  Toast is doing the re-encoding to MPEG-2 and creating the VIDEO_TS folder, etc.  It takes a dogs age for Toast to encode, of course.  

it's just a hunch. hdv (an mpeg2 format) is handled in imovie 

through apple intermediate, so my guess is that it can be converted 

On Sep 29, 2007, at 1:17 PM, Sasha Harris-Cronin wrote:

> Thanks, Josh. This is for a museum, and the setup is that the 

> museum visitors will burn their movies to DVD using a kiosk 

> backended to toast. Currently, the video input is through a 

> Canopus and I am writing to disc using DV. Toast is doing the re- 

> encoding to MPEG-2 and creating the VIDEO_TS folder, etc. It takes 

> a dogs age for Toast to encode, of course.

> Do you think re-encoding from the intermediate codec will be faster?

it's just a hunch.  hdv (an mpeg2 format) is handled in imovie  
through apple intermediate, so my guess is that it can be converted  
in realtime.

>
> Thanks, Josh.  This is for a museum, and the setup is that the  
> museum visitors will burn their movies to DVD using a kiosk  
> backended to toast.  Currently, the video input is through a  
> Canopus and I am writing to disc using DV.  Toast is doing the re- 
> encoding to MPEG-2 and creating the VIDEO_TS folder, etc.  It takes  
> a dogs age for Toast to encode, of course.
>
> Do you think re-encoding from the intermediate codec will be faster?
>
> sasha.
> --
> --- sasha harris-cronin ----
> -- sasha@mortalspaces.com --
> --- www.mortalspaces.com ---
>


recording mpeg2?