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micca · Joined: 09 Aug 2007 Posts: 1 Location: Tallinn, Estonia

Hey!

I am new here, first post and thanks for this little tutorial how to prepare footage for SS - it just WORKS! Thank you Julian!

Three clips and all accepted by SS in 2 days. Nothin' spetial just smoke pushing from the chimney, but hey, 'am in!

More clips coming...

MiCCA

digitalchaos · Joined: 31 Jan 2007 Posts: 289 Location: Toronto, Canada

Welcome to the community Micca!

varius · Posted: Thu Jan 10, 2008 7:15 am

Congratulations and welcome to this crazy world, Micca.

willall · Posted: Wed Jan 16, 2008 11:33 am

Hey I joined a couple of weeks ago, and uploaded a couple pictures. But I want to upload some video clips, I have some DVCAM clips which I put up in AVI format. But I also want to upload some HDV clips I have.

I tried following what u said, but for some reason when installing stream clip it say I need to have a version of quick time that suports quicktime. I tried installing the quicktime alternate thats ment to have mpeg 2 suport but no luck... there wasnt even an option to install it.
I also have avid installed and have never had a problem working with mpeg two, so wondering whats going on.

Are there any other hd formats which are accepted by shutter stock, I also have canopus pro coder 2.

Many thanks, this has been driving me mad!!!

digitalchaos · Joined: 31 Jan 2007 Posts: 289 Location: Toronto, Canada

It is odd that you're having problems with MPEG Streamclip. I don't think you need quicktime installed to run that program, although I could be wrong. It seems like a codec problem ultimately to me, like the installation of Streamclip is being denied because it is interfering with something, Avid possibly. I know Pro Tools (Also owned by Avid) seems to be very sensitive to installing new codecs or encoders. Again, I'm just speculating, but try googling for some information on that problem as having MPEG Streamclip installed will very much make things easier.

For now, just output your clips using Avid into Motion Jpeg B with the settings in the first post for HDV. DV .mov for SD.

stefgo · Posted: Thu Jan 17, 2008 9:54 am

varius · Posted: Thu Jan 17, 2008 11:23 am

Streamclip needs the Quicktime player installed. Doesn't have to be the pro version, the free player will do.

digitalchaos · Joined: 31 Jan 2007 Posts: 289 Location: Toronto, Canada

So there you go willall, looks like all you need to do is install quicktime, then install MPEG Streamclip.

willall · Posted: Thu Jan 17, 2008 8:14 pm

Sorry guys thats what I'm saying I have already done, I have installed quick time... or the version they recomened in the instructions but it doesnt work. I dont really want to shell out the money for mpeg 2 suport when I already have it in other aplications, and buying it just for this program isnt attractive considering I can render mpeg two fine in canopus, avid, premier ect...
I have tried searching for the motion jpeg codec but I cant seem to find anything, are there any other programs that do the same thing, or work with premier or canopus???
Many thanks if anyone can help :)

p.s. I am a poor university student, which is the reason I dont want to have to buy mpeg 2 for quicktime. Plus it would meen that I can only use it on my laptop, I would not be able to use it in the editing suite at uni.

digitalchaos · Joined: 31 Jan 2007 Posts: 289 Location: Toronto, Canada

Have you tried wiping it out completely and re-installing? Is formatting the computer an option? Is there any other apple oriented software you can think of that is installed on your computer?

willall · Posted: Fri Jan 18, 2008 6:47 am

Ok, finally figured it out. The version of quick time alt I was installing didn't have the right plugins for the program, I've downloaded the right one now. I will try it out when i get home and let u know, thanks for all the help.

willall · Posted: Fri Jan 18, 2008 3:45 pm

Ok, the program is loading the media now. However when its loaded its just black in the quicktime player window in the program, and if I export then its just black :(
Any idears?

ivanagott · Joined: 06 Jan 2008 Posts: 240 Location: Karlsruhe

Finally he asked: What format does the customer prefer: .mov or .mpg?

What is it?

digitalchaos · Joined: 31 Jan 2007 Posts: 289 Location: Toronto, Canada

Simply said, if the customer is a professional and knows what there doing (which if you're buying stock footage I assume you will be) they'll want the .mov file. MPG is not good for video editing suites.