Transferring film to Quicktime using MPEG Streamclip?
 

Hi . . I am transferring super 8 film using a Wolverine machine and when converting to quick time movie (I am a Mac user) through mpeg streamclip . . have a couple of questions on the settings on using streamclip. I set it at apple Pro Rez 422 at 100% at 720x480 and apparently should not use the 'frame blending' setting but use 'better downscaling'. What about interlace or de-interlace settings?
thanks
Craig McDowall

Those Wolverine scans always look so awful. :(

No, never a frame blend. Not for nothing, nowhere, never. (Quadruple negative on purpose! :laugh:)

ProRes422, 720x480 -- what is the frame rate? Does it match the Wolverine scanner?

Film has no interlace.
Film is progressive, meaning "one after the other", which is what film does. One frame, then the next, and the next, etc, thousands of them.

Wolverines don't have great resolution, and I believe that interpolate as well. So if it downscales, it's not much much.

I've not used MPEG Streamclip in years. I know it has some non-core utilities, maybe even non-compression (non-MPEG), but I'm not certain. I'd hate to import file, compress it to MPEG (bitrate constrained, GOP, 4:2:0), then extract back to ProRes422. So you need to verify all that.

Why not use iMovie or FCP for such importing?

PS- Too bad that rotten scanner shares a name with one of the best Marvel characters. :P

Thanks Lordsmurf re question on film transfer
 

I would still have to convert the film using Wolverine to make .mov but you are saying just directly import to fcp 7 rather than go thru mpeg streamclip? Appreciate the help

Craig'

Yes, I would look to direct import FCP, bypassing MPEG Streamclip.

Thanks again for your guidance

Craig

Generally in QuickTime 10.x, you can open a video file, and then choose "Save as", and it'll rewrap the video into a .MOV container file without re-encoding it.