Windows & Mac video editing software

[Strawberry Werewolf]

Hi,

I'm curious by what means you guys edit and compress your video podcasts in order to prepare them to play on iPods and iPhones. I'm aware that Final Cut Pro comes with presets to compress for these devices, but I'm curious how the Windows people accomplish this.

If you're using Windows, could you tell me what software you're using to edit your video? And also, how are you compressing your podcasts to prepare them for delivery to iPhones, etc.

If you're using a Mac and you're accompishing this without FCP, I'm curious how you're doing that as well.

Thanks

[WyethDigital]

There are a number of cross-platform options available. Quicktime is probably the most widely used application to compress to iPod/iPhone/AppleTV. It's cross-platform and has built-in, preset codecs. Final Cut Pro and iMovie (also poplular among podcasters) essentially just uses QT to compress.

I use a combination of Final Cut Pro for editing, and MPEG Streamclip for encoding. I do so because I can batch encode to Mac and Windows optimized formats from the same program. But at it's base, even MPEG Streamclip uses certain QT components and conventions. Or perhaps it would be more accurate to say that both QT and MPEG Streamclip use some of the same codecs and conventions... The advanced MPEG 4 codec, H.264, is the preferred option for iPod, iPhone, and AppleTV, and is also played on other devices. Quicktime and MPEG Streamclip both offer the H.264 option.

Windows folks use different editing software, some better than others. Premier, Vegas, Movie Maker, etc. All of those offer different encoding options depending on the codecs installed on their systems. Macs are the same.

Eric