Moving to MAC – Overcoming Video Worries

I had quite a shock when I loaded all my old videos from my digital cameras unto my brand new Macbook Pro. Video Nirvana here I come, I thought, launching Imovie... and then... nothing.

All my precious videos of the kids taking their first steps and playing and having their birthdays, they DID NOT WORK! This wasn't video nirvana. It was video hell!

And this brings to part three of moving to MAC posts. How to handle all your video when you're used to a world of DivX, AVI and Mpeg file-formats.

VLC Player:

Just to calm your nerves, start by downloading this wonderful player. VLC Player. It'll play almost anything video on your mac.

Perian:

But to get the most of video on your MAC you'd like to be able to watch it in the native player Quicktime. Only then will you able to preview video using Leopards quicklook feature, which actually is quite nice.

Download and install Perian. A busload of codecs for your Quicktime player, that'll let it handle almost all formats without problems.

Flip4mac WMV Player

When using websites that embeds Windows Media (those who still do) this is a nice little feature, that let your browser and Quicktime handle windows media.

MPEG Streamclip:

Finally to be able to use Imovie to edit all your wonderfull toddler-shots, you'll need a program to convert them into .mov files. Well luckily we have MPEG Streamclip that'll let you convert your AVI's and MPEG's and DIVX's into MAC's native quicktime-movie format. Then you can open Imovie, and start editing.

And that's all you need to solve your video worries on the MAC.

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januar 17, 2008 | Filed Under Cool Tools 

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