TheVision wrote:
So... if, for instance, Power Director didn't always like the MP4s that my camera throws out. I could use this software to convert them into something that Power Director would recognise and like?
Good find that Chinny! I shall be downloading it straight away!
It is good although there are more elegant solutions than transcoding if you have money to spend. But that software will pretty much convert any MPEG (and quite a few other files) to friendlier formats. For instance because I have Flip4Mac, I was able to take a WMV a client sent me and easily convert it to Quicktime to edit with.
I have a gig booked for next month where I basically have to take myself + my Macbook to a gathering of corporate types who will be shooting on those Flip things to make their own movies and I'll have a couple of hours to edit it together with them. MPEG Streamclip will be essential to quickly get the Flip footage into something Final Cut friendly.
Of course I am speaking of the Mac version but I have no reason to assume the Windows version is any different. It's a small piece of free software that it's worth downloading, "just in case". It'll bail you out of problems when you least expect it and (in my case) when software costing hundreds of pounds has let you down.