Making movie clips for E-Prime?

[Dave]

Hi all,

Everybody please realize that AVI is but a *container* format (see
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Container_format_%28digital%29).
The type of container alone tells you little as to how its *contents*
(video and audio data) are encoded (cf.
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Comparison_of_container_formats).
Bottom line: Just because it's called AVI doesn't mean it will work --
you still might have codec issues to deal with.

Just my $0.02,
-Dave

On Aug 23, 3:45 pm, Lisa Levinson <lml1... at gmail.com> wrote:
> On this topic I have some experience and am fairly familiar with the
> limitations of EPrime.
>
> I have successfully imported .avi files into EPrime. As you will notice in
> either the slide/movie image or movie feature you can indicate a start and
> stop time. The issue there seems to be duration, too short - as in ms - and
> you have problems. Since I did need ms clips I edited my video files into
> frame sequence video clips and saved as .avi files and successfully imported
> them to run in sequence. Because EPrime runs on a PC you have to run
> universal movie files compatible with PCs - I have had the most success with
> .avi files. Based on my experience you can generate a movie and/or use an
> existing movie so long as it is saved as an .avi. A great deal of trial and
> error was involved in determining what kind of files would open in EPrime,
> might be different with your system. Essentially, I saved my footage in a
> number of formats and then tested what would open. The issue I have had
> using video is the timing. I am looking to present 100ms clips and that
> becomes more complicated as EPrime seems to have issues loading the files
> quickly enough. Working on that issue as we speak.
>
> Hope this is helpful though very after the fact.
> Lisa Levinson
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> On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 3:36 PM, David McFarlane <mcfar... at msu.edu> wrote:
> > Well fellow E-Prime mavens, now I could use your experience & advice.  I
> > first checked in the New Features Guide, and did a cursory search through
> > the PST Knowledge Base, the PST Forum, and the E-Prime Google Group, and did
> > not find this addressed anywhere, so I hope I have done my homework at least
> > as well as I expect others to :).
>
> > Two related questions:
>
> > 1) Suppose we want to make some short clips from a larger, existing movie
> > file for use in E-Prime.  What software would you recommend for this?
>
> > 2) Suppose we want to record our own movie clips from scratch for use in
> > E-Prime.  What systems would you recommend for that?
>
> > I might also reframe those questions as, "What did *you* use?" or, "What
> > worked for *you*?"
>
> > Note that the KB and online discussions have addressed at length how to get
> > *existing* clips to work with E-Prime (installing codec libraries, etc.).  I
> > instead want to avoid those problems by preparing our clips in the first
> > place in a way that plays well with E-Prime "out-of-the-box".  Any advice?
>
> > Thanks,
> > -- David McFarlane, Professional Faultfinder
>
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