Making Video Adjustments Encoding with MPEG Streamclip

Making video adjustments encoding with MPEG Streamclip is a huge benefit if you need to adjust brightness, contrast, saturation or volume. The is an invaluable benefit if you have audio that was recorded low during the video recording process and you need to increase the volume. Imagine being able to fix the audio on 50 to 100 video clips while converting to QuickTime, Windows Media or iPod video. Well, that's what MPEG Streamclip can do.

Using the Batch List you can include all of your desired videos to convert and apply your desired video adustments to all output video clips.

MPEG Streamclip Great Tool for Converting MOD files

If you're in need for a tool to help you with the conversion of .MOD files on Mac. MPEG Streamclip is a tool that you should consider. If you're using SDHC Memory Cards when you connect your camera on the Mac you can locate all of your video files by opening the Memory Card and navigating to the .MOD files. The .MOD files are basically MPEG-2 Program Stream files with the .MOD extension.

Recently I had two encoding projects where about 300-400 .MOD files needed to be converted for encoding in iMovie for Summer Art Camp students in Ohio and for Windows Movie maker for Summer Leadership Academy students in Florida.

Here were some benefits that I saw using MPEG Streamclip for the conversions:

• Batch encoding of 200 .MOD files to .MOV or .WMV could be done easily
• Telestream's Flip4Mac Plug-in is available from within MPEG Streamclip
• You can watch a video preview of the videos being converted
• Adjustments to Audio, Brightness, Contrast and Saturation can made during batch encoding
• The tool is Free
• Conversions happen quickly

Here's a look at the Batch List for encoding numerous files



Here's a look at the main interface where .MOD files can be converted to DV/DVCPro-NTSC .MOV.

Derrick Freeman's Articles

Here's a list of articles written by Video Streaming and Compression Specialist, Derrick Freeman:


Studio Monthly Magazine

Create Linked Flash Videos, for Streaming and Download, with Sorenson Squeeze

Pre-process for Compression with Squared 5 MPEG Streamclip

Other video streaming and compression articles, tutorials and write-ups can be found at GeniusDV.com

Working with MPEG-1 muxed media files

Working with MPEG-1 muxed media files can be tricky but it can be easier using a tool called MPEG Streamclip. Every Multimedia Specialist should have this tool available. There's a link to a write-up about MPEG Streamclip below.

A muxed MPEG-1 file is a MPEG-1 file that has the video and audio tracks mixed together. You can run into problems encoding these types of files using some compression applications. So it's a good idea to demux the MPEG-1 file. Once you compress the video you can re-assemble the audio and video in Quicktime Pro. This will give you a seperate audio file. If you don't have QuickTime Pro available then you can assemble your files in Final Cut Express or Final Cut Pro then export to QuickTime. It's not the best work flow but it will work.



To demux your MPEG-1 file open your file in MPEG Streamclip and navigate to Demux to AIFF via the File pull-down menu. You don't have to bother with Demuxing the video because when you compress your MPEG-1 muxed file in many cases you will get a video only file.

Download MPEG Streamclip for Mac or Windows XP