AAAI Fellows Interviews.  

Recorded with a Canon GL2 MiniDV Camcorder with an Azden ECZ 990 microphone attached.  

Imported using iMovie and Final Cut Pro.  I imported the full length of each tape.  

Edited in Final Cut Pro.  I created the headers in Motion, using Geneva size 48 font.  I gave the name of the interviewee, the date the interview was recorded, and the name of the interviewer in smaller font below.  

The headers played for 3-4 seconds on their own, and then the video image began beneath them.  The video played for about a second with the headers overlaid, and then the headers disappeared.  I essentially just imported the entire tape, beginning it when both people were seated and ending it when neither was on the screen.  I then exported the video using the default setting (Quicktime Lossless).  

I used a Mac OS X frontend to several CLI encoding utilities (specifically x264, in my case) called FFmpegX.  I set this to transcode the 720x480 .mov output to 368x268 H.264 MPEG-4 video using x264.  The bitrate I set at 385 kbps.  I also selected the following FFmpegX options:

CABAC
b-frames
Constant bitrate
Two-pass encoding
Trellis
Decode with Quicktime
ME function Multi-hexagon

The audio I transcoded from pcm_s16be at 1536 kbps to mp3 at 192 kbps.  

I saved each video under the surname of the interviewee in it.  

That's about it.