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Do MPEGS work on Macs? and other questions

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Do MPEGS work on Macs?
Is there any type of cord to allow my USB camera to fit into the firewire cord or anyway to make the USB camera work with iMovie?
Also, how do I capture footage from an analog camera, is there anything I can buy to do this?
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i use VLC to play mpegs
 
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Ok, I've downloaded it and I can't figure out how to import the video to iMovie. Can you guys help me out?
 
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What exactly are you trying to acomplish? Yes macs can play mpegs. No, firewire and USB are not compatable as far as a crossover cable (I think). I'm pretty sure iMovie can't import Mpeg files (mpeg 2 at least), so if thats what you are trying to do you will need a program to convert them. Quicktime pro works well.
 
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I am trying to transport files from a DVDr full of MPegs into iMovie. I got them to run in "VLC" but, I don't know where to go from there. Help?
 
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VLC is a video playing software only.

For conversion to something quicktime compatible, use FfMpegX, Visualhub or Quicktime Pro.

Google these to find them.
 
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schweb said:
Try Perian
Click to expand...




thanks for this rec...

i downloaded perian and i still cant play my mpeg-4 movie ...it take forever for quicktime to load it and when it does load nothing plays.


after dling perian it prompted me to click "continue" then left two files on my desktop..do i need to do something in order to install it further? or if its on my desktop it means i dled it? (new to mac osx)
 

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