{"id":731,"date":"2021-09-02T13:15:47","date_gmt":"2021-09-02T13:15:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mklasen.com\/?p=731"},"modified":"2022-03-31T12:58:54","modified_gmt":"2022-03-31T12:58:54","slug":"converting-mov-files-to-mp4-with-ffmpeg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mklasen.com\/converting-mov-files-to-mp4-with-ffmpeg\/","title":{"rendered":"Converting mov files to MP4 with FFMPEG"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I did some screen recordings for a new plugin that i’m developing. MacOS does great with screen recording, Quicktime really makes the whole process much easier. But, when you start editing..<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Editing Quicktime MOV files in Premiere is terrible<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

I started questioning my equipment. Why is it lagging – why do render previews take so long? Am I even on hardware acceleration?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apparently the files are just terrible to work with. It takes a while, but luckily we have FFMPEG available for this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Don’t have ffmpeg installed? Check here: Install Homebrew<\/a> and then run: brew install ffmpeg<\/code>)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The solution<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Open up a terminal window, go to the directory where your files are located and run this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

for i in *.mov; do ffmpeg -i \"$i\" \"${i%.<\/em>}.mp4\"; done<\/code><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It takes a while, but when it’s ready editing live becomes a whole lot easier, and you also save some disk space..<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Happy editing!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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