BogMonster Posted January 15, 2006 Share Posted January 15, 2006 Does anybody know of a decent video editor/converter, preferably free Main requirement is to be able to convert stupid Olympus .mov files (Quicktime format) into something sensible like .wmv or .mpg which anything apart from QT can read I had a look on Google but most of the ones I have seen seem to be trial versions that expire and also are silly sized downloads for dialup Ta Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tuko Posted January 15, 2006 Share Posted January 15, 2006 Stephen, If your using Windows XP SP2, then you have MovieMaker already installed. X-llent FREE program, that converts your QT movies to avi. ( I have the same problem with my KM camera) Todd. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BogMonster Posted January 15, 2006 Author Share Posted January 15, 2006 Stephen,If your using Windows XP SP2, then you have MovieMaker already installed. X-llent FREE program, that converts your QT movies to avi. ( I have the same problem with my KM camera) Todd. Aha! I have SP2 on the laptop - I shall investigate! Ta Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tuko Posted January 15, 2006 Share Posted January 15, 2006 Stephen, For some strange reason, it's well hidden, no shortcuts are created. Go into C:/program files/--> you'll find it there. From there, I created a desktop shortcut. Todd. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
western Posted January 15, 2006 Share Posted January 15, 2006 It should be a normal XP type brown folder just called Movie Maker Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BogMonster Posted January 15, 2006 Author Share Posted January 15, 2006 Ah, it is also on SP1 in the start menu - never even thought of Windoze having something useful built in Ta - I'll have a play later cleaning 10 days worth of dust from Christmas holiday out of the 90 at the moment Ever seen brown Techno cloth trim? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FridgeFreezer Posted January 15, 2006 Share Posted January 15, 2006 I've just tried using it to convert a MOV file, it doesn't like them Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BogMonster Posted January 15, 2006 Author Share Posted January 15, 2006 I've just tried using it to convert a MOV file, it doesn't like them Hmmm I just found that out too Back to Square One Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest MJG Posted January 15, 2006 Share Posted January 15, 2006 Hmmm I just found that out too Back to Square One That's a pity in all other respects Windows Movie is really great - does all a decent editor does (Effects, titles etc etc) and it is free . I ditched the program that came with my Dell (can't even remember what they called it now) in favour of MM. though obviously no good if it doesn't do what you want. When you say it doesn't like *.mov files what exactly do you mean??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FridgeFreezer Posted January 15, 2006 Share Posted January 15, 2006 Won't load them. .MOV is Apple Quicktime Movie, a PITFA on anything but a Mac. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geoffbeaumont Posted January 15, 2006 Share Posted January 15, 2006 Main requirement is to be able to convert stupid Olympus .mov files (Quicktime format) into something sensible like .wmv or .mpg which anything apart from QT can read Umm...wmv (Windows Media Video) is just as bad...you can't play them in anything much but windows media player. Okay, more people have Windows than Macs/Linux/whatever, but they're still limited. You can get windows media players for Mac, but it's a very old version that Microsoft have now discontinued development of, so arguably mov is more portable than wmv is (Apple at least provide an up-to-date player for Windows). If you want pretty much any computer to be able to play it out of the box you're stuck with mpg - if you want decent compression and quality divx or xvid are supported on all platforms but I think require all of them to install additional software. The latter is supposed to be the better of the two, but less widely supported. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tuko Posted January 15, 2006 Share Posted January 15, 2006 Funny, that it don't work, as last week, I converted a .mov file from my digi camera in MovieMaker to avi without any problems. I'll try it again, to see if it screws up. Todd. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveSIIA Posted January 15, 2006 Share Posted January 15, 2006 I use TMPGEnc with the QuickTime plugin. Works a treat. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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