File Conversion and Firewire card

[The Black Circl]

Is it possible to install firewire "in" into a tower?

What is a good device for this, where can I find it, how much does it cost?

How do I find a converter to convert either M2T files, or MOV Quicktime 7 files to MPEG2 files - and retain the following values:

- bit rate of 10000 kbps
- 16:9
- 720p
- NSTC

How much does something like that cost?

 

[dgatwood]

Is it possible to install firewire "in" into a tower?

What is a good device for this, where can I find it, how much does it cost?

FireWire card, just about any place that sells computer stuff, and about $20 for a decent one. Make sure you get one with a TI chipset.

FireWire 400 only:
http://www.sourcingmap.com/usb-1394-firewire-pci-chipset-card-p-12430.html

FireWire 400 (1) and 800 (2):
http://store.cwc-group.com/iefi13hoca.html

NOTE: I know absolutely nothing about either of these manufacturers or sellers. They were just cheap TI-based FireWire cards off Google's product search.

How do I find a converter to convert either M2T files, or MOV Quicktime 7 files to MPEG2 files - and retain the following values:

- bit rate of 10000 kbps
- 16:9
- 720p
- NSTC

How much does something like that cost?

An M2T file is a type of MPEG2 file.... As for conversion tools, there are loads of free, open source tools for that, or there are tools that cost money that usually require a little less effort to use. What device are you trying to target? What source generated the video? Is this from an HDV capture? Something else?

 

[wreckd504]

If your motherboard doesn't have any firewire inputs [which i'm finding a lot of these days] you can get a PCI or PCI-E card

Something like this

http://www.i-tech.com.au/products/4558_DOUBLE_H_IEEE1394__Firewire__PCI_Card.aspx

usually can be found pretty cheap i would say under $30, not sure about the video conversion. I use http://www.xilisoft.com/ for quick conversions and Adobe Premier for more important video related tasks

edit: dgatwood beat me whilst I was typing

I use a cheap firewire card with my 002, purely because it was in my cupboard when I needed it. Digi recommend a TI chipset but I've used it for 3 years with no problems. Who knows what that means though.

 

[The Black Circl]

the video is actually captured on a dvcpro, I belive at 720 and the "required" format is MPEG2

So I could burn the M2T file image onto a CD and It would work the same way as MPEG2?

(Encoding is totally new to me so please bear with me.)

I plan on upgrading to HDV from those consumer grade JVCs with 3 ccds MPEG2 format HDD cameras

 

[TimOBrien]

SUPER will convert any video file format to any other, including M2T (and SUPER is FREE!):

http://www.erightsoft.net/SUPER.html

# Supported input source file formats are:
- Image Sequence: jpg, pgm, png, ppm (with sequentially numbered-ONLY filenames)
having the same filename numbered-ONLY format. Example: 0001.jpg --up to--> 0999.jpg
note that this format will NOT work name_0001.jpg --up to--> name_0999.jpg (take out name_)
- Video format: 3gp/3g2(*****,Siemens,Sony,Ericsson), amv, asf, avi(DivX,H263,H263+,H264,XviD,MPEG4,MSmpeg4...), dat, drv-ms
fli, flc, flv, m2ts, mkv, mpg(MPEG-I,MPEG-II,VCD,SVCD), mov(H263,H264,MPEG4,SVQ..), mp4(H263,H264,MPEG4..), nsv, ogg,
qt, rm, ram, rmvb, str(Old Play Station), swf(Flash), ts(HDTV), tmf, ty+, viv, vob, wmv
- Audio format: aac, ac3, amr, mmf, mp2, mp3, mp4, mpc, ogg, ra, wav, wma
- AviSynth Script Files: avs. Let you specify advanced encoding commands using AviSynth scripts!
# SUPER © supports the conversion (encoding both ways, to & from ) of ALL the listed formats.


Getting to the download link on his website can be a bit of a pain, here's a direct link:

http://download.videohelp.com/download/SUPERsetup200833.exe

 

[dgatwood]

the video is actually captured on a dvcpro, I belive at 720 and the "required" format is MPEG2

So I could burn the M2T file image onto a CD and It would work the same way as MPEG2?

If you mean burning onto a DVD or VCD, while the data itself is MPEG, it isn't laid out the same way, so you'd have to find a tool that can convert MPEG2 transport stream format (HDV uses MPEG2-TS) to MPEG2 program stream format (DVD uses MPEG2-PS) and then other software to build a DVD menu and stuff. It shouldn't require any recompression, though, just a trivial rewriting of the container that holds the data.