How do I prepare my own streamable MP4 video files?
This advice is for advanced users only. Although you can use Apple’s Quicktime Pro to generate perfect H264-encoded MP4 streamable video files in exactly the right format for FamilyCam, Quicktime does not actually give you a great deal of control over the output (especially if you want to do custom video cropping) and Quicktime can only convert from a limited range of source input video formats. Instead, we recommend that you try using a product called MPEG-StreamClip which is free to download and install and there are identical versions for Macs and PCs. You’ll also need a copy of Quicktime 7 installed but you don’t need to buy a licence to Quicktime Pro. MPEG Streamclip works with the standard (free) version of Quicktime 7. Once you’ve captured or copied video from your source media onto your PC, whether it’s in .DV, .VOB, .AVI, MPEG or .MOV or almost any other high quality format, launch the MPEG-StreamClip application and load into it your video file or files. If you have VOB files
