Converting Videos Imported to iMovie in Apple Intermediate Codec
Hi All,
Awhile back I would use iMovie '08 & '11 to import & store videos from my iPhone & camcorder, and some of these videos were converted from the base codec to Apple Intermediate Codec on import (I am not sure exactly why). I now have all of these videos that were in my iMovie Events folder and they are unplayable in Quicktime (I guess newer versions of Quicktime dropped support for AIC?) and also are taking up a ton of space. I am hoping that someone knowledgable on video formats would be able to answer these questions:
- What would be the best tool to convert these back to H.264 codec & retain good quality?
- Would it be possible to retain the metadata like created date and gps coordinates in this conversion process?
Looking back it probably would have made sense for me to store the files coming out of the iPhone/camcorder separate from iMovie but unfortunately I only have these AIC files.
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!