DivX on a Mac

Otobe · Post by **Otobe** » Mon May 05, 2003 7:24 am

Does anyone know of any free software that can convert DivX to something a Mac can deal with easily, iMovie can do it, but i have full episodes that I had encoded on my PC and they are too large for iMovie, plus it takes an unreasonably long amount of time. (I am trying to move footage from my home PC to a Mac at school, thus the PC to Mac and use of DivX instead of source directly from the DVD)

Zarxrax · Post by **Zarxrax** » Mon May 05, 2003 10:46 am

Divx CAN be played back on the mac. In fact, if you just go to divx.com, they got it imblazoned with a huge pic right at the top of the front page.

Otobe · Post by **Otobe** » Tue May 06, 2003 1:00 pm

I can PLAY DivX files using QuickTime but they won't work in premiere. I was also mistaken about being able to use iMovie to convert the files, turns out that the files are too large for iMovie. Does anyone have any suggestions?

Dannywilson · Post by **Dannywilson** » Tue May 06, 2003 1:11 pm

Do not use divx in premiere... Divx uses keyframes and premiere hates them with a passion...

Otobe · Post by **Otobe** » Tue May 06, 2003 1:19 pm

Do not use divx in premiere... Divx uses keyframes and premiere hates them with a passion...

I know this. I am trying to change it to another format.

NicholasDWolfwood · Post by **NicholasDWolfwood** » Tue May 06, 2003 1:48 pm

Dannywilson wrote:Do not use divx in premiere... Divx uses keyframes and premiere hates them with a passion...

Erm. It's not that DivX uses keyframes, it's that it doesn't have enough. Everything should have at least 1 keyframe per video file, for example HuffYUV and AVISynth-frameservered footage are 1 keyframe per frame, therefore the number of keyframes being the number of frames.

Premiere hates DivX. Not Keyframes. Just a correction

Red Wolf · Post by **Red Wolf** » Tue May 06, 2003 7:59 pm

You are really out of options. You can get DivX files to play on a Mac but getting it into an editable format is more work than just re-ripping the DVDs. Even with QuickTime Pro you only can export the video, not the audio. If you are specifically wanting to edit the content of the DivX files on a Mac I would just re-rip the original DVDs which you can do with plenty of available free software.