Making movie clips for E-Prime?

[Lisa Levinson]

That would make sense, the "containers" make the content compatible with the
platform (MAC/PC). I have had luck saving video footage as .avi files but as
I said, it's something you have to test. I created an animation sequence in
Final Cut Pro (a MAC product) and saved in multiple formats (Mpeg, Mpg4,
Avi, etc) trying each to see which would run.

On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 11:50 AM, Dave <nitz.david at googlemail.com> wrote:

> 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
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > 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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