I wanted to send someone a QuickTime version of a video on YouTube the other day. What to do? Here's what I figured out--I'm sure there's other ways to do it, but I know this one worked for me. I copied the link for the video from the movie's page (YouTube posts it prominently on the page to encourage people to embed videos on other webpages.) There's a website keepvid.com that will take that link and give you a new link to download the YouTube video. So now you have a video in the flash format on your desktop. But I wanted a QuickTime. I used a free program called iSquint to convert the flash video to an MPEG-4 QuickTime. It only took a couple of minutes to transcode a 30-minute video on a MacPro 2.66 GHz. iSquint is meant to transcode for iPod, but the MPEG-4 settings seemed to cause no degradation to the YouTube video.
In a simiilar vein, there's a post on DVGuru about ffmpeg, a free app that will let you encode into Flash. If you do want to post to YouTube, it seems to make sense to encode it yourself since their built-in encoding seems to do a poor job to me.
Monday, January 29, 2007
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