(How) do you re-encode movies?

[Daniel Browning]

Anyone have a better way?

Personally, I can't fathom why you'd think anything could be better than a shell script. [] But since you insist, I use and recommend Cineform NeoScene ($99 from videoguys.com). Not only does it have an excellent UI for batch conversion, but it gives you a destination codec that is far better than whatever else you are using now, and makes editing fast and easy.


A free alternative might be MPEG Streamclip. I've used it to convert 5D2 MOV files. You don't get any good codecs, but it does batches.

[Jon Ruyle]

Thanks, Daniel and wickerprints. I'll look in to the programs you suggested.

Personally, I can't fathom why you'd think anything could be better than a shell script. [img]/emoticons/emotion-5.gif[/img]

I don't think I'll find anything *better*. I just want something requiring less effort on my script-impaired part.