Batch Converter 5.0b flips MOV to AVI?

rique wrote on 7/6/2002, 6:05 PM

When I convert a Quick Time mov file to an uncompressed Video for Windows avi file, the image turns out upsidedown. Converting to avi DV NTSC or MPG works fine. Anyone else have this problem and a fix?

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SonyDennis wrote on 7/6/2002, 8:30 PM

Sounds like a bug in BC5. QuickTime returns images "upside down" in their internal representation, and it's dealt with everywhere else in our software correctly, but apparently in this one case, it's not. I'll submit a bug report.

Vegas should handle it fine. If you have Forge 6, then you have Vegas Video LE, and can use that. As well, Forge 5 or Forge 6 could transcode it.

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rique wrote on 7/7/2002, 4:30 AM

shawnm wrote on 7/8/2002, 2:09 PM

Actually, this is a QT problem. QT uses a different coordinates system than Windows Media. I don't remember how to fix this, but you might try posing this question to the Windows Media DL: http://communities.microsoft.com/Newsgroups/default.asp?ICP=windowsmedia&sLCID=US

SonyDennis wrote on 7/8/2002, 7:45 PM

I know that QuickTime is stored in a different scanline order than DIBs; however, our software should correct for that, and does in almost all cases except for this one. I just tried it, and it's flipped top to bottom. It's a bug in BC5. Fortunately, converting MOV to uncompressed AVI is not all that common, but we'll still fix it for the next version of BC.

For the record, Vegas 3 or Forge 6 make better VIDEO transcoders anyway since they deal with frame rate conversions, image scaling, pixel aspect ratios, and frame aspect ratios *much* better than BC5.

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