Digital photography

I've been transcoding (is that the right word?) in batches fine already, its converting the files to .DV from .MOV that I have to do individually (iMovie won't open .MOV). I don't know what pro res means, but I've been chaning from h264 to avid DNxHD, no idea if that does any good, but it does make the videos play more smoothly afterwards.

You sound a little lost.

Why are you converting the files from .mov to .DV ?

Or are you in fact converting the files from h264 to avid DNxHD ?

Or are you doing both !!? And if you are, in what order ?

I really don't know what I'm doing at all with video.

At this stage, as you are in the UK, stick to PAL.