What is your suggestion for converting AVI drone footage to MP4? Thanks!

Evan

Assuming the codec is H.264 I would remux the footage, i.e. copy the video stream without re-encoding.

For instance:

ffmpeg -i drone.avi -c:v copy drone.mp4

You might need additional audio options to convert or map multiple channels, the same with the metadata.

Thanks. What's the best converting software to convert AVI to MP4?

Evan

For doing exactly what you want to do on PC I use a free utility called Avidemux 64. It has a very simple easy to use GUI and can re-mux many different files types both video and audio to a wide range of wrappers including .MP4. The current version is 2.7.1 and can be found here.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/avidemux/

All you have to do is select "copy" for the video and audio content of your incoming files and then select MP4 for your output files. Just done an 5.5 minute DJI file and it took all of ten seconds to re-wrap the file to MP4.

See the attached image to give you an idea.

Chris Young

Sounds like Evan wants to compress to a smaller size.

I'd suggest Handbrake - it's free and it's very high quality if you have the time - meaning it can work fast for a so-so quality output or insanely slow for high quality.

In that case yes 100% agreed, Handbrake or VidCoder. Same x264 thing but more configurable.

Chris Young