Tried to make a movie from Sunday’s action and Corel Video Pro kept crashing on me. As I researched on the internet it seems to be related to .mov files which are the native container for the files on the ContourHD. Well, that was the exact reason I bought Corel. It was supposed to handle these files and it did, for awhile at least. Then I upgraded from x12 to x13. I have made 3 or 4 successful movies in the same format but for some reason now it just crashes during rendering no matter what settings I used. Most help says to convert my .mov files to something else before I start editing. That sort of defeats the purpose I bought Corel for. Plus I am worried about quality loss.
Anyway, I rode the 530 over to Chris Heplers house to put some more miles on it and stopped by the gym on the way home.
Not much else going on with the ground being so wet.
#1 by Rams at July 20th, 2010
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Enough excuses! Post up some video!
#2 by Mark at July 22nd, 2010
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The problem is your Contour is creating quicktimes that have an .h264 compression. You need to re-wrap your quicktimes for Corel to read them. A simple, free, and easy to use program for that would be mpeg streamlip. http://squared5.com . You drag your video files into the window and then choose a codec that is Corel friendly. It processes pretty quick so it shouldn’t be too much of a hassle.
It’s normal to have to do this. I do it with everything I shoot on my DLSR.
#3 by Doug Ferguson at July 22nd, 2010
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THANKS! I have used some converts before but I am sure I was using bad ones. But if your vids look that good with conversion before editing them I’m sold. I may contact you about conversion settings if I can’t figure it out. Stand by for some lame editing and poor music selection.