I have recently digitized a VHS tape using VirtualDub. Here is the MediaInfo of the original file.
General
Complete name : capture.avi
Format : AVI
Format/Info : Audio Video Interleave
Format profile : OpenDML
File size : 28.0 GiB
Duration : 26 min 19 s
Overall bit rate : 153 Mb/s
Video
ID : 0
Format : YUV
Codec ID : YUY2
Codec ID/Info : YUV 4:2:2 as for UYVY but with different component ordering within the u_int32 macropixel
Duration : 26 min 19 s
Bit rate : 151 Mb/s
Width : 656 pixels
Height : 480 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 4:3
Frame rate : 29.970 (30000/1001) FPS
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:2
Compression mode : Lossless
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 16.000
Stream size : 27.8 GiB (99%)
Audio
ID : 1
Format : PCM
Format settings : Little / Signed
Codec ID : 1
Duration : 26 min 19 s
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 1 536 kb/s
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Sampling rate : 48.0 kHz
Bit depth : 16 bits
Stream size : 289 MiB (1%)
Alignment : Aligned on interleaves
Interleave, duration : 33 ms (1.00 video frame)
Interleave, preload duration : 233 ms
Since I can't import this AVI file into Final Cut Pro for editing, I did some processing in ffmpeg to help make it more... compatible? Here was my command:
ffmpeg -i "capture.avi" -c:v copy -c:a alac "capture.mov"
... and here was the output:
Input #0, avi, from 'capture.avi':
Duration: 00:26:19.21, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 152535 kb/s
Stream #0:0: Video: rawvideo (YUY2 / 0x32595559), yuyv422, 656x480, 150994 kb/s, 29.97 fps, 29.97 tbr, 29.97 tbn, 29.97 tbc
Stream #0:1: Audio: pcm_s16le ([1][0][0][0] / 0x0001), 48000 Hz, stereo, s16, 1536 kb/s
Stream mapping:
Stream #0:0 -> #0:0 (copy)
Stream #0:1 -> #0:1 (pcm_s16le (native) -> alac (native))
Press [q] to stop, [?] for help
Output #0, mov, to 'video.mov':
Metadata:
encoder : Lavf58.45.100
Stream #0:0: Video: rawvideo (raw / 0x20776172), yuyv422, 656x480, q=2-31, 150994 kb/s, 29.97 fps, 29.97 tbr, 30k tbn, 29.97 tbc
Stream #0:1: Audio: alac (alac / 0x63616C61), 48000 Hz, stereo, s16p, 128 kb/s
Metadata:
encoder : Lavc58.91.100 alac
frame=47329 fps=196 q=-1.0 Lsize=29252562kB time=00:26:19.43 bitrate=151723.3kbits/s speed=6.54x
video:29107335kB audio:144639kB subtitle:0kB other streams:0kB global headers:0kB muxing overhead: 0.002010%
... and here's the resulting MediaInfo of capture.mov
General
Complete name : capture.mov
Format : MPEG-4
Format profile : QuickTime
Codec ID : qt 0000.02 (qt )
File size : 27.9 GiB
Duration : 26 min 19 s
Overall bit rate mode : Variable
Overall bit rate : 152 Mb/s
Writing application : Lavf58.45.100
Video
ID : 1
Format : YUV
Codec ID : yuvs
Duration : 26 min 19 s
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 151 Mb/s
Width : 656 pixels
Clean aperture width : 656 pixels
Height : 480 pixels
Clean aperture height : 480 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 4:3
Frame rate mode : Constant
Frame rate : 29.970 (30000/1001) FPS
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:2
Compression mode : Lossless
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 16.000
Stream size : 27.8 GiB (100%)
Audio
ID : 2
Format : ALAC
Codec ID : alac
Codec ID/Info : Apple Lossless Audio Codec
Duration : 26 min 19 s
Duration_LastFrame : -35 ms
Bit rate mode : Variable
Bit rate : 750 kb/s
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Channel layout : L R
Sampling rate : 48.0 kHz
Stream size : 141 MiB (0%)
Default : Yes
Alternate group : 1
There didn't appear to be any errors, and I am able to view the new video file in Quicktime, without any issue.
When I open FCP v10.5, I am unable to import capture.mov. I can't even select it from the list of files to import -- it is disabled, just like the AVI file.
My question: what can I do, or change, about the way that I capture the video and audio in VirtualDub -- or -- about the way that I transcode the captured AVI file, to allow it to be imported into FCP? I do not want to encode the raw video into ProRes if possible.
