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Encode to H264 with iMovie HD Apps
If you occasionally want to encode to H.264, but don't own Quicktime Pro, you can do it if you own iMovie HD (part of the iLife suite). Just create a new project, import the file you want to convert to H.264 by dragging it to iMovie (in my case, it was an mjpeg from my digital camera). After importing, go to File: Share. In the QuickTime tab of the window that pops up, choose Advanced settings, and you will have access to all the encoding options you would have in QuickTime Pro.

[robg adds: I'm pretty sure this is intentional; purchasing iLife (or a new Mac that has it bundled) gives you the ability to export your iMovie projects in any of the QuickTime Pro formats, even if you haven't purchased QuickTime Pro. You won't, of course, get all the other QuickTime Pro features...]
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Encode to H264 with HandBrake
Authored by: Lectrick on Aug 04, '05 02:16:11PM

I encode to H.264 with HandBrake all the time, with gorgeous results, but it sorta requires that the source material be in MPEG2 VOB format ;)

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Offtopic question
Authored by: thoughton on Aug 04, '05 05:05:35PM

For some reason when I clicked through to this article from the RSS feed I got a 'not authorised' message which required me to log in. I didn't feel like opening keychain access to find my password so I just went to the homepage at www.macosxhints.com. However this article isn't listed there!? Is there some reason this particular article is 'members only'? Or is it a bug?



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Encode to H264 with iMovie HD
Authored by: gboudrea on Aug 04, '05 07:36:11PM

ffmpegX also allows you to encode videos in H.264, from many formats (VOB MPEG-2, AVI, MOV, etc.)



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speed of this tip vs. Handbrake?
Authored by: dierauer on Aug 05, '05 01:29:02PM

I also use Handbrake to encode to H.264 from MPEG2 VOB files, but it's pretty slow on my G4/dual 533. It seems like the QuickTime 7 encoding to H.264 should be faster, but does anyone know for sure? I don't want to pay the $20 for the QuickTime MPEG2 component if it's not going to be a big gain in speed over Handbrake.



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QT MPEG-2 Component
Authored by: sjk on Aug 05, '05 06:18:00PM
If nothing more, purchasing the QuickTime MPEG-2 Component was worthwhile for me just for working with MPEG-2 files in MPEG Streamclip.

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