I.T. - Quicktime to Windows help please you nerds! ;-)

[SoulKiss]

Originally Posted by K

Recording File Format: Motion Pictures - "QuickTime Motion JPEG" (motion pictures with audio)

And so a little more Apple-evil is leaked into the world............

Originally Posted by K

A Panasonic MDC-FZ18... and I have a sneaky suspiscion that it's cleverer than me.

In the manual it states:
Recording File Format: Motion Pictures - "QuickTime Motion JPEG" (motion pictures with audio)

Talk about a non-standard video format. I'd assumed that the camera would use a more common video format that wouldn't actually need converting, but you definitely need to convert motion jpeg.

I can see why they use it though - the camera already as jpeg compression and each frame is encoded independently of the others.

Originally Posted by SoulKiss

And so a little more Apple-evil is leaked into the world............

I imagine that they chose motion jpeg to avoid having to do intra-frame encoding (which requires lots of processing power and reduces quality). It's better than using an intra-frame encoder (e.g. mpeg) if you need to edit and re-encode the video.

The trouble is, that there's no standard format for motion jpeg. I've seen loads of different versions of motion jpeg from different manufacturers.
Apple's Quicktime m-jpeg is probably the most widely used version and most people with already have it or can download it for free. As you pointed out, it's quite easy to convert it into other formats.

Originally Posted by wyrdness

Talk about a non-standard video format. I'd assumed that the camera would use a more common video format that wouldn't actually need converting, but you definitely need to convert motion jpeg.

I can see why they use it though - the camera already as jpeg compression and each frame is encoded independently of the others.

Originally Posted by wyrdness

I imagine that they chose motion jpeg to avoid having to do intra-frame encoding (which requires lots of processing power and reduces quality). It's better than using an intra-frame encoder (e.g. mpeg) if you need to edit and re-encode the video.

The trouble is, that there's no standard format for motion jpeg. I've seen loads of different versions of motion jpeg from different manufacturers.
Apple's Quicktime m-jpeg is probably the most widely used version and most people with already have it or can download it for free. As you pointed out, it's quite easy to convert it into other formats.

*wwhhhooooosssshhhhh*
..............

Did I mention I have opposable thumbs?