Export AVI from Mac

[Justin Kirchhoff]

Any program anyone uses to export an uncompressed 8-bit 4:2:2 avi from a mac? i have a client who prefers this over a quicktime file.

for some reason after effects isn't rendering out the full video file, only a few clips.

[Martin Weiss]

Have you tried flip4mac?

[Justin Kirchhoff]

It doesn't export the AVI I need. I wonder what the closest AVI format is to 8-bit 4:2:2. Would that be an animation uncompressed?

[Dj Joofa]

If you download MPEGStreamClip (freely available) it comes with an optional Quicktime component called "Save as Avi.component", that shall let you encode to AVI. The advantage of this particular component is that it does not transcode if it thinks that it is simply a "wrapper" change from a different format, say Quicktime, to AVI, so should be very fast.

[Stacey Spears]

I would export as uncompressed QT and then use the Cineform tool to convert to an AVI.

The reason is because when you export an AVI from FCP, you will get RGB24. With QT you can export 8-bit 4:2:2, which will most likly be 2Vuy or 2vuy. (FOURCC) Personally I would export as 10-bit (v210).

The Windows version of QT will produce a bad AVI if the file is greater than 2GB. The indexes are bad. I assume they are using the old VFW AVI APIs, which don't support large file sizes.

The key is to only change wrappers, as Joofa points out.