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Title: toy video formats conversion
Post by: andromedanwarmachine on August 01, 2012, 08:15:30 AM
Hey team...

can anybody recommend a reputable conversion program to help me out here. I don't mind paying money- in fact I'd probably feel better about paying money for it.

I recently starting fooling around with shooting some toy-footage on the "camcorder" app in my (work supplied) Motorola Defy+ mobile handset. The still image resolution is 5mp which I like the look of (I like the limitations of it and don't own a camera outwith) and the the moving image quality is surprisingly good.

I thought I'd have a crack at editing something together (a little expose of a local trail-run that I do) and thought I'd do some great sound for it as an exercise. Sound isn't the problem. The handset produces files which are "3gp" and I downloaded some evaluation patch to convert to "(something- I've forgotten!)" which actually imported into my Protools 8LE platform. So far so good.

Can someone recommend a patch/program which convert 3gp into the real world for me...?

Thanks

JimP
Title: Re: toy video formats conversion
Post by: andromedanwarmachine on August 02, 2012, 12:36:43 PM
wow!

this must really be something I'm on my own with!?

Ok, fair enough.

I know it's distinctly a lowtech question; I like the idea of squeezing the small stuff for visual results.

Whereas I'd always go allout for sound.
Title: Re: toy video formats conversion
Post by: mattmiller on August 02, 2012, 01:11:53 PM
I use an old "free" version of DVDfab to do stuff like this.

http://www.dvdfab.com/

It looks like the current version of what I have costs $200, but they offer just the video converter portion of the software for $40.  I have no idea what 3GP files are, so I can't test its ability to convert FROM them, but it IS an option for me to convert any other video TO.  So I assume it'll convert from 3GP to anything else too.
Title: Re: toy video formats conversion
Post by: andromedanwarmachine on August 08, 2012, 06:21:32 PM
hey- thanks for that, Matt...!
Title: Re: toy video formats conversion
Post by: cybergaloot on August 09, 2012, 05:26:25 PM
Will WinFF do what you want?
http://winff.org/html_new/
I've only used it to convert avi to MP4 so I don't know about how it works with other conversions. But its free!
Title: Re: toy video formats conversion
Post by: earmonger on August 13, 2012, 11:25:15 PM
Media Coder is also free and claims to do 3gp.

http://mediacoderhq.com/editions.html

Just watch out as you install, there's some junkware and toolbars that you need to say no to.