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Unofficial VirtualDub Support Forums > General Discussion > A Neighbor Just Gave Me A Kodak Zx1!

Posted by: rjisinspired Nov 22 2011, 02:54 AM

Wow. My neighbor told me she had no use for it and decided to give it to me. One of those handheld Flip type cameras but a Kodak version.

The format the camera records in is an AVC format but in .MOV. All I can say is: Ugh.

I think I might know the answer all ready to this but I thought to ask anyway: Is there anyway of importing this file into Vdub without the official QT installed? I really, and I mean really, do not want to put QT into my system if I can help it.

Come to think of it I do remember trying to use .MOV, one time before, and I did have QT alternative but from my recollection that wasn't enough to make the import work.

Posted by: mayhem Nov 22 2011, 05:57 AM

Not sure if the QT plug-in could handle that alone or not, I have QT Alternative 1.81 installed
and that with the plug-in handles most .mov's I've come across.

In some cases where it doesn't, I've converted them first to AVI
using MPEG Streamclip, which is kinda clunky for editting but if you
just want to convert stream and then edit elsewhere it seems okay,
it also requires QT Alternative or actual QT (which likewise, I refuse to
have on my system)

I think Streamclip is located at www.squared5.com, and if you click
download windows version, then scroll down the page that loads
a bit, download using the beta version link of that, and it also
has the links for the 1.81 version of QT alternative that works with
that program a bit further down the page.

I would think that between Virtualdub with plugins, QT Alternative,
and Streamclip you should be able to find some combination that
opens those files.

Theres also a purpose-built Kodak converter but thats not freeware,
http://www.kodakvideoconverter.com/ and I certainly wouldnt pay
35 dollars when theres probably some combination of freeware that
can figure it out.

Posted by: rjisinspired Nov 22 2011, 07:05 AM

Thanks mayhem. I'll give streamclip and QT Alternative a try tomorrow.

The ZX1 comes with some software called MediaImpressions. I think this is only a media browser and nothing else. I seem to remember having some other hardware device that had this software and it was just a media browser.

The camera when connected to the computer opens up as drive E (Internal) and the software opens as drive (F)? Sounds like a partitioned internal drive. Funny thing is that I have to disable Antivir's real time protection or else I can't get the software drive (F) to load because of an autorun.inf file that Antivir blocks because it thinks I'm too stupid or something. Antivir is a good antivirus but it sure is a paranoid one at that. It has tried to save me from myself so many times, lol. I don't want saving. I just want to open up camera software.

The Kodak converter should have came with the camera or a stripped down version of one at least. That's just as bad as Olympus when I had misplaced my DS30 software for my voice recorder. The software came with the recorder but if you needed a copy they charged $50.00 for the same program that was included with the DS30 package. All that software does is transfer the files from the recorder to the computer and has the same functions in the program that the recorder had. No editing functions at all in the application.

I did find my CD software for my recorder after about a year, problem fixed, lol.