Hi all, thanks for visiting the site.
Today’s video is a very short and sweet demo of a feature that alot of folks don’t know exists.
Ever been in a situation where you want a DV25 res video, or a Motion JPEG movie but the client delivers… wait for it….H.264 Your very favourite system crunching codec.
Well, the power is well within your hands to quickly re-render that video into the resolution/codec of your choice. It’s all about a shortcut when choosing “Bounce to Quicktime movie” as shown in the video (hold ctrl+opt+cmd)
Hope that helps!
Dear Brent,
this is a cool tip but unfortunately is only useful for short videos. The way that the conversion works is to bounce the audio then combine that with the video then do the conversion. This can take a loooong time with a long video. Worse still you are locked out from doing anything else in Tools while the process is occurring .
As a result I would still recommend using MPEG Streamclip for conversion duties. It has a Batch feature and many many useful parameters, it is fast and best of all free and will work in the background enabling you to do other things in Tools while encoding the Movies, Best of all it is FREE!
With the new 8 core machines (I’m a Mac Guy) you can do a lot and put no pressure on the computer.
my 2c
Simon L.
This is a great discovery! But why does Digi always hide stuff like this?? Why not just have an “options” button in the Bounce to Quicktime dialog box?
I was just wondering why in PT8 this (hidden) dialog now always comes up and you always have to wait a long time during re-rendering (translating media). In PT7.4 it was much more faster if you do not want to resize your video.
Stefan
Wicked cheers, very use full information. thank you.