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Thanks for the info! Yes, a writeup, and open-sourcing the Python driver you wrote would be excellent. We've got tons of tapes still unconverted, and as another

Thanks for the info! Yes, a writeup, and open-sourcing the Python driver you wrote would be excellent. We've got tons of tapes still unconverted, and as another commenter mentioned, it's better to do it sooner than later. On an MBP 2012 as well, and also have a powerful Linux desktop for ML work, so definitely sympathise with the divide in hardware. Interesting that you're using Quicktime - is ffmpeg not suitable because you need a GUI for the trimming/splitting?

azinman2 6y ago
I use ffmpeg to do some automatic trimming and to force encode the video as top-field encoded. My capture hardware lies and says it’s deinterlaced, when the video is not. I’ve tried deinterlacing with it but found best compromise quality / effort / speed wise using Apple’s Compressor and it’s deinterlacing algorithm. I don’t know why I’m unable to override the capture in AVFoundation; maybe someone smarter than me can tell me how to do this (I suspect it’s not possible). I use QuickTime to go through the material and do the splits / manual trimming. This happens often as one tape was used for multiple events and sometimes TV content as well.