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Video equivalent of Graphics Converter?

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Diomedes

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Proably every Mac user has or has used Lemke's GraphicConverter, the indispensable Swiss Army knife of converting graphic files.

But is there something similar for video? I have QT Pro, and it does a good job, but it won't export or import Flash (SWF) files. If I have a QT movie I want to turn to Flash, I have to use Flash Pro, and go through that hassle. Likewise, there seems to be no easy way to extract media from a Flash file into a QT movie. Not to mention WMV files, which we are commonplace.
 
Yeah, I've seen that. I was hoping not to have one tool for each format, but rather that was something more universal. This being video, compression is a given; but going between QT & Flash can be such a production sometimes.

Adobe/Macromedia includes a stand-alone conversion tool, but it seems I've had mixed results with it. Maybe I need to tinker with the settings.

Any other ideas?
 
The closest analogy is probably FFMPEG, a shareware program that supports a huge variety of input formats and codecs (nearly everything) and a moderate number of modern output codecs. It's also a bit difficult to get working properly, and has a confusing interface, but it does get the job done.

Even it has limitations, though; there's more going on with transcoding video than an image file.
 
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