FFMPEG Help

Rehdarh

Rehdarh

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Hi,

I am attempting to install ffmpeg so that I can convert my AVCHD files to MOV files so that Davinci Resolve can read them. I followed this video to a T: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcdTIDHm4KM and it worked the first time, insofar as I wrote in my CMD prompt: ffmpeg -version and a bunch of instructions came up. But I deleted FFMEG for a number of reasons that I don't want to get into. Now, when I try to install it again, nothing comes up after the command.


I would love to hear from anybody who has any advice...but I should mention that I am reallly technologically inept lol.

Thank-you
 
I have Davinci Resolve 12.5 on my mac and it reads AVCHD cards just fine. Why do you need ffmpeg to convert them. If you do need a better editing format why not just let Davinci do the conversion for you?
 
I think that Resolve has solved this problem for mac. Resolve also doesn't convert it for me I have to find some third party.
 
Rehdarh said:
I think that Resolve has solved this problem for mac. Resolve also doesn't convert it for me I have to find some third party.
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My bad. Apparently not as I just tried linking to a Panasonic card and was getting video but not audio on both PC and Mac. If you have Adobe, you could use their Media Converter. Otherwise may get a clip re-wrapper like this for PC http://hdcinematics.com/convert-V2.html or EditReady http://www.divergentmedia.com/editready on a MAC
Odd because all my go to edit programs (Avid, Premiere and FCPX) deal with AVCHD natively.
 
Thanks,

I had a look at those programs and I can't really afford them. The idea with the FFMPEG is to do this process for free.
 
Yes that is what I clicked, but it still doesn't show up in my command promp
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The way this works is that you can use anything from the command prompt if you preface it with the path to the file. If you put the file "ffmpeg.exe" in c:\, then type:

Code: 
c:\ffmpeg

rather than just

Code: 
ffmpeg

...it'll work fine. You can also just drag-and-drop the ffmpeg.exe file into the command prompt, and it'll automatically enter a path to it.

There are a list of places where the command prompt will go and look for executable files without your having to prepend it to the command. You can get a list of these places by typing

Code: 
path

...in a command prompt.

The procedures described in the resources you've cited are essentially just allowing you to add to the list of places the prompt looks for executables.

It's very rare that anyone needs to pay for a video converter. ffmpeg can solve most of the problems that come up; look also at ffmbc, which is a more postproduction-oriented variation with some differing capabilities.

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