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Camera .MOV to .mp4 or .AVI _ Your Considerations?

Started 6 months ago | Discussions thread
OP Chas Tennis Contributing Member • Posts: 944
Re: Camera .MOV to .mp4 or .AVI _ Your Considerations?

I just did a test.

File out of camera- 8 minute of tennis match video from Aiptek Action camcorder.

.MOV 1080p x 720 60 fps 346 MB

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Viewed video on Kinovea video analysis application and made no changes that should required much additional storage.

1) Save as .AVI on Kinovea.

Saving took 7 minutes. (Windows 10, faster laptop)

Video file size: .AVI - 7.31 GB (for a 346 MB input video! ?)

2) Save as .mpt4

Saving took 7 minutes.

Video file size: .MP4 7.31 GB

It is clear that for my purpose of recording a tennis doubles match, ~ 1.5 hours - and then distributing video files to the other 3 players using their small SD cards is not workable, because of the .MOV to .AVI or .MP4 conversion on Kinovea.

I would want the other players to view on Kinovea (free, open source) because it has many capabilities. For example, Kinovea has a count down millisecond time scale, "0 milliseconds" can be set to ball impact! Some of these player may eventually become interested in stroke analysis.

First thoughts for options:

1) View on Kinovea - but no video file saving conversions - distribute match original recordings to other players on small SD cards.

2) Get another camera that outputs .AVI. It must be low cost and have a fast shutter that limits motion blur as the AiptekAction was designed to do. (I would expect the fast shutter speed to be very hard to find for low cost.)

(My use of Dropbox has been very minimal, once or twice a year, usually receiving files.)

Chas Tennis

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