[$lim$hady]

Hi all,

I need some help in getting a system in place for watching my video clips from my digital camera on my LCD.

I have a Panasonic lumix camera which records video clips in MOV files

I have joined all clips and converted to a AVI file 16:9 by using Quick player PRO

I then burned the file on a DVD and tried to play it in my Phillips 5960 player in which I got a codec error. I understand I need to now convert this file again into a divx or avi that the DVD player can read but my question is there an easy way to do this, because I am converting the file a few times before I get the end result?

I’m ultimately looking to join videos from the digi cam and watch them from my Phillips 5960 onto a LCD, obviously looking for the best quality.

Would appreciate your help!!

[senu]

You need a video converter. This can convert the mov files to DIVX/MPEG4.
I generally use Canopus Procoder but there are others which do a good job and dont cost a lot

1)You can burn a Data DVD disc with DIVX/XVID files. Note that not all DVD players can play them

otherwise

2) You can actually import the mov files into a software video editor which accepts them as input and then edit (by joining the clips) and
Create a standard DVD video
or
Output as Divx file which you can then burn to a Data DVD disc

either if which should play on your DVD player
If you want to retain quality it is helpful to minimise the no of conversions and the all in one solution of using a software editor is probably the best since it is all done within the same software
Avoid thinking you have to convert to an "avi".
AVI is not a format as such and its suffice can have files encoded differently
However if converting the mov to a divx file means it is avi , fine

Very few Video editing software titles do not now support mov so which ever you use is largely a matter of preference
Good luck

[jaymac]

You could just import to dvd flick freebie and burn to dvd with that http://www.dvdflick.net/

[$lim$hady]

thanks senu and jaymac,

I also got ulead movie factory so i could use that to make a dvd, but the size of the movies are small 10-20 mins, so was wanting to avoid that method but Divx, xvid sounds like a good option but do you know what the quality is like? compared to a dvd?

i guess the other question is... is the original MOV file a good source to begin with as i cant change this.

[jaymac]

Flick is quick just drop the files in and your away .Mov is fine if thats all you have though even then ther may be quality settings on the Cam?