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.MOV file has audio synchronization errors in any editor but plays fine in VLC

I have a .mov file with H.264 1080p video and raw 16-bit PCM audio that I need to edit (remove a portion of). The original file plays fine in Gnome's movie player and VLC but as soon as I open the ...
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Trimming videos - quicktime vs. mplayer/ffmpeg stack

I have several mp4 video files (H.264, AAC) from which I want to trim a few seconds at the beginning and the end. I used Quicktime Player 7 and MPEG Streamclip for this. The generated files are a bit ...
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FFmpeg can't convert MOV to FLV

When i try to convert a .mov file to .flv i get this type of output. I get error Invalid sample format '(null)' Error opening filters!. When I convert .avi or .mp4 I get no errors. I'm on ...
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what is missing in this ffmpeg statement to create a working video conversion

I want to convert videos to a format that my camera reads with ffmpeg. I have some sample videos from the camera and analyzed them with mplayer -frames 0 -identify DSCN0001.mov and with ffprobe ...
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.MOV video compressed with PNG has no alpha channel

I have a QuickTime file .mov with alpha channel compressed with PNG codec. What I need is to create smaller version of this file using ffmpeg. Everything works except new mov has no alpha (Adobe After ...
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Create a watermark in a separate track with FFmpeg

I have a PNG (alpha) file and a video file. I want to create a video in which the first track is the image and the second track is the video (PNG over video). The problem is that the PNG doesn't ...
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What parameters should I be looking at to reduce the size of a .MOV file?

My Canon 60D creates .MOV files when recording video and I've found out that the .MOV container has an H264 video stream and a PCM audio stream. I've used ffmpeg and GSpot to look at some of my ...
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ffmpeg - convert MOV to AVI but decrease frame rate

I have several videos that are filmed with a portable camera and saved in .MOV. Since these are videos of university lectures and have video of the boardwork done by the professor, I would like to ...
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ffmpeg - creating DNxHD MFX files with alphas

I'm struggling with something in FFMpeg at the moment... I'm trying to make DNxHD 1080p/24, 36Mb/s MXF files from a sequence of PNG files. My current command-line is: ffmpeg -y -f image2 -i /tmp/...
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