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'[OT] Quicktime to windows video format converter'
2009\04\22@184616
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Gordon Williams
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I'm looking for a simple software utility that can take an Apple QuickTime
.MOV format file and convert it to something that can be edited with Windows
MovieMaker such as a .WMF format. It needs to be free.
My daughter has been given a school assignment to make a video journal of a
volunteer activity to make the world a better place. She has taken on
raising some money for our local children's hospital. Unfortunately, this
has become a bit of a parent technology project were the parent (me) gets to
scrape enough technological bits together so that they can accomplish their
video part of the goal. She borrowed a neighbour's old Video 8 camera
hoping to use that. After finding what type of film was required and buying
a couple cassettes we found that the batteries only last about 30 sec now
before going flat - old batteries. We also don't have a video capture card
either so transferring and editing on the computer wasn't on. Next she
borrowed a friends still camera that can also take movies. We can transfer
files to the computer - great! - but then I realized that I couldn't view
them because they were in QuickTime and Windows MovieMaker can't import
them. I ended up downloading the Apple QuickTime player so I can now see
them but need something to be able to convert them to a format that
MovieMaker can use.
There seems to be quite a few packages $ that will do conversion, editing,
etc., but I plan on using MovieMaker for the editing. I'm not very keen on
spending money on something that will be used on a school project and then
tossed away in a week or so.
Got any ideas?
Thanks,
Gordon Williams
2009\04\22@192252
by
Bob Blick
On Wed, 22 Apr 2009 18:45:34 -0500, "Gordon Williams" <spam_OUTgwilliamsTakeThisOuT
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said:
> I'm looking for a simple software utility that can take an Apple
> QuickTime
> .MOV format file and convert it to something that can be edited with
> Windows
> MovieMaker such as a .WMF format. It needs to be free.
VLC should be able to do it, at least convert from MOV to AVI.
Cheers,
Bob
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2009\04\22@201336
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cdb
2009\04\22@202601
by
peter green
> Got any ideas?
>
VLC?
2009\04\22@214724
by
Gordon Williams
That's great. It did the trick.
Gordon Williams
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> On Wed, 22 Apr 2009 18:45:34 -0500, "Gordon Williams" <
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> said:
> > I'm looking for a simple software utility that can take an Apple
> > QuickTime
> > .MOV format file and convert it to something that can be edited with
> > Windows
> > MovieMaker such as a .WMF format. It needs to be free.
>
> VLC should be able to do it, at least convert from MOV to AVI.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Bob
>
>
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2009\04\23@105101
by
Herbert Graf
On Wed, 2009-04-22 at 18:45 -0500, Gordon Williams wrote:
> I'm looking for a simple software utility that can take an Apple QuickTime
> .MOV format file and convert it to something that can be edited with Windows
> MovieMaker such as a .WMF format. It needs to be free.
If windows is your only OS: Windows Media Encoder. Can take basically
any video that plays on your system and converts it to .wmv. Also does
audio. A ton of encoding options.
TTYL
2009\04\24@092342
by
Larry G. Nelson Sr
Another good program is Format Factory. It supports a wide variety if
different format conversions.
Larry
At 10:46 PM 4/22/2009, you wrote:
>That's great. It did the trick.
>
>Gordon Williams
>
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