Mov to AVI/Mpeg.

botheredbothered Manchester UK
edited July 2006 in Internet & Media
Hi all, Hope this is in the right place.
I don't take video with my Kodak camera very often but yesterday I did. They are in .movbut I want them in AVI or Mpeg so I can play with them in Roxio and get them on DVD. Anybody know of a decent, free pref, prog to convert them?

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  • DogSoldierDogSoldier The heart of radical Amish country..
    edited July 2006
    I've never had to convert from MOV before, I usually convert AVI to SVCD using TPMGENC. A quick search gave me Radtools, and evidently, it's freeware.

    http://www.videohelp.com/mov2avi.htm
  • botheredbothered Manchester UK
    edited July 2006
    I found a converter from Xilisoft which does them. It's a baby vid I had on my camera but I use Roxio for making DVDs and that doesn't support movs. It's only a one off, all other vids will be done on my video camera.
    I'll have a look at radtools as well.
    Thanks DogSoldier.
  • RWBRWB Icrontian
    edited July 2006
    Quicktime Pro has that ability, and it renders so nicely. ;) But it has a small cost to it.
  • EnverexEnverex Worcester, UK Icrontian
    edited July 2006
    It's also still Quicktime, lol. Yes, I hate Quicktime and I HATE MOV files.
  • RWBRWB Icrontian
    edited July 2006
    I really don't get why people hate quicktime, if it is becuase your forced to install iTunes, there is the standalone player you can download.
  • EnverexEnverex Worcester, UK Icrontian
    edited July 2006
    It's because it's proprietory crap that is constantly shoved down my throat.
  • DogSoldierDogSoldier The heart of radical Amish country..
    edited July 2006
    What Enverex said. I still haven't figured out how to disable qttask at startup.
  • userxuserx
    edited July 2006
    I've been using a converting app called "Cineforge"
    http://dw.com.com/redir?pid=10496506&merid=6249381&mfgid=6249381&ltype=dl_dlnow&lop=link&edId=3&siteId=4&oId=3040-2169_4-10496506&ontId=2169_4&destUrl=http://www.download.com%2F3001-2169_4-10496506.html

    Direct download link ^

    I'll let you figure out how to use it. It's pretty simple. Just input @ file you want. Output, then change extension. Can pick fps, quality, bitrate, resolution, etc. Good app. Drains CPU a bit though, but shouldn't take all that long for you since I've been encoding .vob files into .avi....
    I still haven't figured out how to disable qttask at startup.
    msconfig @ run -> startup tab, surely? Worked for me last time (*shudder*) I had SpyTime
  • GrayFoxGrayFox /dev/urandom Member
    edited July 2006
    Enverex wrote:
    It's because it's proprietory crap that is constantly shoved down my throat.
    Its not any diffrent then windows media files or windows media player.

    edit: If you want to spend $22.50 you can get this
  • botheredbothered Manchester UK
    edited July 2006
    RWB wrote:
    I really don't get why people hate quicktime, if it is becuase your forced to install iTunes, there is the standalone player you can download.
    Well I don't want it because, like I said, I use Roxio Easy Media Creator for my DVDs and it doesn't support .mov files so I can't use them. Anything else I want to view I use Media player or Winamp so I don't want another player just for movs. And yeah, lots of web sites try to install the thing and it keeps popping up all over the place. I keep getting rid of it then something else installs it.
    Thanks for all the suggestions guys, I'll have a look at them all. :thumbsup:
  • userxuserx
    edited July 2006
    To be honest if you want a media player that has it's own codecs, and plays just about anything you should get "VLC Media" player. It is freeware.
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