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Reason for this thread is for those that want to get at the video inside the MKV container if your video editing software doesn't support MKV (even whatever video player you are using) and you don't want to convert the MKV into another format with the end result of generational degrading of the video. Also, to save everyone time and bandwidth so you don't have to rely on someone else to convert and upload them and you download another copy.
Personally I'd rather be water boarded than dealing with the nitty gritty of video technophilia and doing something more constructive and productive with my time. It's rather like a mechanic having to constantly open his drill to replace the brushes on the motor. Rant rant.... Now on with the thread.
Thanks to Nindan he recommended last night FFmpeg a command line program to convert or remux a container. I used it to remux the mkv's and reupload pooky's mkv iTune files. You can grab it up here: http://ffmpeg.org/download.html and it did the job just fine. If you don't like command lining you are in luck. I was scouring the internet for an issue (which I will bring up later on the OP) I happened to come across a nice little thread and someone recommending a program called Xmedia. It is in fact a GUI/Frontend for FFMPEG. It is like mana from heaven and no more dealing with command lines if you don't have to. You can grab that up from here: http://www.videohelp.com/tools/XMedia-Recode
It converts and remuxes.
You can't get any nicer than that preview window and all :)
Since we are about remuxing, in the video and audio tabs make sure you have copy selected and not convert.
On the main window is where you set your output format and destination folder
And that's it. Sweet and simple just the way we like it.
Now, the issue I mentioned above. It has to do with After Effects. Though now you can import the file into it, it's not correctly doing so. In the preview window the file is still maintaining its anamorphic properties and when you export a frame and dump it into photoshop you are immediately greeted with a Pixel Aspect alert window. The screen shot below is from Xizer's remuxed file he uploaded and it's doing the same to my remuxed files as well. I'm in the process of trying to find a correction for this issue.
As you can see AE is not displaying the 1280x720 which it is suppose to do. Hopefully I will track down the issue. Until then, where the hell did that water board go :)
Solution:
Well that went quicker than I thought and I didn't have to spend any more time searching the internet and dealing with the chatter. I decided to start playing around with options in
After Effects since I knew this was something AE was doing. The solution was in composition settings. The preset was defaulting to DVCPRO HD 720 25 with these files. I kept trying out
the other 25 fps presets and found it HDV/HDTV 720 25. Exported a frame and dumped it into photoshop and no Pixel Aspect alert. That's all there is to it. Now I can carry on....
Personally I'd rather be water boarded than dealing with the nitty gritty of video technophilia and doing something more constructive and productive with my time. It's rather like a mechanic having to constantly open his drill to replace the brushes on the motor. Rant rant.... Now on with the thread.
Thanks to Nindan he recommended last night FFmpeg a command line program to convert or remux a container. I used it to remux the mkv's and reupload pooky's mkv iTune files. You can grab it up here: http://ffmpeg.org/download.html and it did the job just fine. If you don't like command lining you are in luck. I was scouring the internet for an issue (which I will bring up later on the OP) I happened to come across a nice little thread and someone recommending a program called Xmedia. It is in fact a GUI/Frontend for FFMPEG. It is like mana from heaven and no more dealing with command lines if you don't have to. You can grab that up from here: http://www.videohelp.com/tools/XMedia-Recode
It converts and remuxes.
You can't get any nicer than that preview window and all :)
Since we are about remuxing, in the video and audio tabs make sure you have copy selected and not convert.
On the main window is where you set your output format and destination folder
And that's it. Sweet and simple just the way we like it.
Now, the issue I mentioned above. It has to do with After Effects. Though now you can import the file into it, it's not correctly doing so. In the preview window the file is still maintaining its anamorphic properties and when you export a frame and dump it into photoshop you are immediately greeted with a Pixel Aspect alert window. The screen shot below is from Xizer's remuxed file he uploaded and it's doing the same to my remuxed files as well. I'm in the process of trying to find a correction for this issue.
As you can see AE is not displaying the 1280x720 which it is suppose to do. Hopefully I will track down the issue. Until then, where the hell did that water board go :)
Solution:
Well that went quicker than I thought and I didn't have to spend any more time searching the internet and dealing with the chatter. I decided to start playing around with options in
After Effects since I knew this was something AE was doing. The solution was in composition settings. The preset was defaulting to DVCPRO HD 720 25 with these files. I kept trying out
the other 25 fps presets and found it HDV/HDTV 720 25. Exported a frame and dumped it into photoshop and no Pixel Aspect alert. That's all there is to it. Now I can carry on....
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