Gerco

BINGO! we have a winner!

This is exactly what I was looking for, and talk about easy. I have been looking for a way to keep all my video on Hard Drive but I don't need it in Raw DV, since the final video will only ever be used for the web.

Yesterday I was playing around with different ways I could encode the Raw footage using Episode pro. I started with a baseline of 1600k and did encodes for H.264, MP4, Mpeg1 etc. In doing this I discovered that while the resulting files looked great, opening them up in an editor and trying to do anything with them after the fact was painful.

I only want to be able to take a 60 minute live camshow footage and chop it up via what was done in that show then using a watch folder in Episode have it add the intro outro and watermark and convert it to the final H.264 video I'll upload to the site.

This "Streamclip" allows me to do exactly that and very quickly. Not only can I open and edit the original raw footage if I like, but I can open and chop up the MPG1 footage, basically set the in and out hit "command s" Name clip and Enter, move in and out and repeat. It saves the resulting clip passthrough, no re-encoding... SWEET!

Thanks for pointing the program out tome. I had actually used it before to view a video but had never thought about it to chop one up.