Hi All -
I do not know much about video files so I'm hoping that someone knowledgable on the subject could help me with this scenario:
Basically I have a ton of videos that I imported into iMovie events several years ago. Many of these are stored as .mov files with the apple intermediate codec (I think because I had selected the "optimize video" setting on import). These are not viewable in QuickTime on macOS Catalina so I have been searching for the best way to convert these so that I can just view them in the finder. I have fount that I can import these old files into the new iMovie, and when I export to a file it converts to a mp4 with H.264 codec and these are viewable by QuickTime. The question is if I convert all of my original files to mp4, H.264 will there be a ton of quality lost in that? And if I did want to include these converted videos in future projects would that degrade the quality even further? Are there any better ways to accomplish this?
Thank you!
I do not know much about video files so I'm hoping that someone knowledgable on the subject could help me with this scenario:
Basically I have a ton of videos that I imported into iMovie events several years ago. Many of these are stored as .mov files with the apple intermediate codec (I think because I had selected the "optimize video" setting on import). These are not viewable in QuickTime on macOS Catalina so I have been searching for the best way to convert these so that I can just view them in the finder. I have fount that I can import these old files into the new iMovie, and when I export to a file it converts to a mp4 with H.264 codec and these are viewable by QuickTime. The question is if I convert all of my original files to mp4, H.264 will there be a ton of quality lost in that? And if I did want to include these converted videos in future projects would that degrade the quality even further? Are there any better ways to accomplish this?
Thank you!
