Please help! .mpg to .mov

lukethetechguy · Mar 26, 2008

hey everyone,

Ok ive got a big problem and i need some help from all you mac geniuses out there. I need to put a 30 minute video that is currently in .mpg onto imovie so i can break it down into 10 minute clips so i can put it onto youtube and i need to convert the .mpg to .mov PLEASE HELP ME and show me either some program out there that will do the trick or something on my macbook that will work. Thanks a million

--luke

mrplow · Mar 26, 2008

lukethetechguy said:
hey everyone,

Ok ive got a big problem and i need some help from all you mac geniuses out there. I need to put a 30 minute video that is currently in .mpg onto imovie so i can break it down into 10 minute clips so i can put it onto youtube and i need to convert the .mpg to .mov PLEASE HELP ME and show me either some program out there that will do the trick or something on my macbook that will work. Thanks a million

--luke

try ffmpegx it'll convert just about anything to anything
http://homepage.mac.com/major4/

Noxian · Mar 26, 2008

mrplow said:
try ffmpegx it'll convert just about anything to anything
http://homepage.mac.com/major4/

x200000

, I use FFmpegx all the time, there isn't much it cant do. Besides make me dinner.

lukethetechguy · Mar 26, 2008

yah that doesnt seem to work...i downloaded it and when i drag my .mpg into the program and click convert to .mov it just beeps and says its finished but i cant find it anywhere?? any other suggjestions

Noxian · Mar 26, 2008

lukethetechguy said:
yah that doesnt seem to work...i downloaded it and when i drag my .mpg into the program and click convert to .mov it just beeps and says its finished but i cant find it anywhere?? any other suggjestions

Did you make sure to install the other components?
http://ffmpegx.com/download.html

mrplow · Mar 26, 2008

lukethetechguy said:
yah that doesnt seem to work...i downloaded it and when i drag my .mpg into the program and click convert to .mov it just beeps and says its finished but i cant find it anywhere?? any other suggjestions

Like Noxian suggests make sure you have installed as per the instructions.

If you still have problem look at the ffmpegx Progress window that appears when you click encode and click on the 'i' next to the filename. It will show you the encoding log and any errors found. Post that here and we'll try and help further

lukethetechguy · Mar 26, 2008

ok great, so i just downloaded the mplayer and mencoder binaries but when i try and download the mpeg2 binarie from http://ffmpegx.com/download.html it just gives me abunch of script.

lukethetechguy · Mar 26, 2008

yah guys im having serious trouble downloading the mpeg2 binarie. it says on the ffmpegx website that i have to follow all these steps and ctl click on mpeg2 and download link blah blah and i do that and it just downloads that script again....grr

lukethetechguy · Mar 26, 2008

ok guys i tryed converting the movie after the first two binaries and its working....keep fingers crossed

mrplow · Mar 26, 2008

lukethetechguy said:
yah guys im having serious trouble downloading the mpeg2 binarie. it says on the ffmpegx website that i have to follow all these steps and ctl click on mpeg2 and download link blah blah and i do that and it just downloads that script again....grr

sounds like you are cmd+clicking not ctrl and clicking.........

If you ctrl + click (or right-click) you get a pop up menu with an option to Download Linked File As...

If you cmd + click you'll open the file contents in another window/tab

lukethetechguy · Mar 26, 2008

no i was ctrl clicking. but i think its working now, thanks for all the help