Old 2 New Memories » Video Conversion http://old2newmemories.com Convert your old photos, video & audio to digital to enjoy it daily. Mon, 28 Mar 2011 14:50:29 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 Convert any audio, video or photo file to any other format! http://old2newmemories.com/2008/02/22/convert-any-audio-video-or-photo-file-to-any-other-format/ http://old2newmemories.com/2008/02/22/convert-any-audio-video-or-photo-file-to-any-other-format/#comments Fri, 22 Feb 2008 17:57:26 +0000 Carel http://old2newmemories.com/2008/02/22/convert-any-audio-video-or-photo-file-to-any-other-format/ Have you ever had the need to convert one audio, video or picture format to another? Well, now you can with an online service called ZamZar.com. The entry level offering is FREE! The free offering gives you 100MB in file size, and 5 concurrent conversions. Pricing range from $7/month for the Basic and $49/month for the Business package. Read more about this service at Lifehacker.com. Scoble likes it, and Techcrunch wrote about it as well.

Here are other online services:

  • Convert it: This service is free at the moment. Doesn’t seem to have a file size limit. Very clean interface and easy to use. No registration required.
  • Media-Convert: This is also a free service with a 150mb file size limit. The interface is cluttered, but still easy to use.
  • Hey!Watch: Encode video files using this online service. You have to register and the price is 10c per encoding credit. I’m not sure what that means. Webware has a good write up on Hey!Watch.

And finally Lifehacker.com writes about lots of other file conversion utilities.

]]> http://old2newmemories.com/2008/02/22/convert-any-audio-video-or-photo-file-to-any-other-format/feed/ 0 Convert older MPEG-2 video to DV format http://old2newmemories.com/2007/12/27/convert-older-mpeg-2-video-to-dv-format/ http://old2newmemories.com/2007/12/27/convert-older-mpeg-2-video-to-dv-format/#comments Thu, 27 Dec 2007 06:06:14 +0000 Carel http://old2newmemories.com/2007/12/27/convert-older-mpeg-2-video-to-dv-format/ I’ve recorded a lot of video clips on my older digital cameras, including a Casio EX-S600. These older video clips are stored in MPEG-2, AVI, and other older video formats. Newer video editing programs (like iMovie for the Mac) don’t support most of these older video formats. This week I decided that it was time to solve this problem. After about 2-3 hours of research I got lucky…read on…

You can buy commercial programs, e.g.,

After reading the following Apple Discussions message I opted for a free program called, MPEG Streamclip. So far I’ve been able to convert AVI, MPEG-1, and MPEG-2 video files. The great thing is that you can also do this in batch mode! MPEG Streamclip is available for both Mac and Windows.

Here are the steps that I follow:

  1. Located your old video files. You can search for .avi, and .mpg files. (If they are still on tapes, well then you’ll have to wait for a future post.)
  2. Add these files to MPEG Streamclip’s batch list. Use menu path: List->Batch List. Select the files you want to convert. Set the options. I exported all my files to DV format.
  3. After the files are converted, I import them into iMovie ’08. Use menu path: File->Import movies…
  4. Now you can edited your files and enjoy them in iTunes, on youtube, on your .Mac web gallery, or on your AppleTV.
  5. As a last step I usually archive my old video files.

.Mac (Apple Computer, Inc.)

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