converting .mov files

Thanks seg5 that is helpful

after conversion usin i get this message
Windows Media Player cannot play the file. The Player might not support the file type or might not support the codec that was used to compress the file.
what do i need to do ?

hii i want to run .mov file in flex3 without converting the file into .flv and without using netstream..




please help me....


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I’m new to moving making, however good with computers. I converted my .mov files with the RAD Tools program, however when they finished, they were in slow motion. What adjustments do I need to make when converting to make them look normal? Thanks.

Hey there.

Just so happens I have the same camera and the same problem. In fact, I stumbled on your query after doing a Google search on this very issue. (I’m looking for a conversion tool myself.)

My preliminary findings suggest you need Quicktime Pro to handle the conversion. (You may know that the .mov format is QuickTime’s native format.) The good news is that QuickTime Pro costs only $29.99, so even though it’s not freeware it isn’t a budget buster, either.

Here’s a link that explains how to do the conversion under QuickTime Pro. Looks like it might be a little hairy:

http://www.2dreamers.com/tutorials/export_mov.shtml

Good luck!

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I haven’t tried the software mentioned above. I’m just coming across this page today when trying to convert .mov files from my new Kodak Easyshare camera for the first time.

I’ve used RealPlayer and Media Player Classic to view my short digital camera files before this, both free. Now I’m trying longer videos on a memory card for the first time. (Both of these are free, and M.P. Classic is very good for a free D.V.D. viewer - you don’t have to pay for upgrades to RealPlayer or WMV if you play videos on M.P.C.)

But the best actually is the latest QuickTime player. You can update if you have an old version. The quality is substantially better than with the other two media players I’ve tried. Many people post video on The Web, telling viewers to play it on QuickTime, because it is better, at least for .move files as they are the QuickTime’s own files, but some others are better on QuickTime I think.

I found 'Kate’s Video Cutter' and installed it, it’s free. I’ve tried one conversion, to W.M.V., for Windows Media Player, but the result is too bad - the quality is poor when the quality from a cheap digital camera is not great anyway.

I don’t know what the Kodak Easyshare model mentioned above is like for video capture. My Easyshare camera (C813) has the typical V.G.A. resolution for video capture which is probably the lowest acceptable resolution for most people. I guess the other model is the same if it’s a normal digital camera first, rather than a camcorder design, though the video capture might be improved if it has a CMOS sensor.

I’m also trying Movavi video converter version 6.3 It has very good options for conversion, though the free operation is only in a trail version, and then one would have to pay. I’m just trying my first conversion in my trial, from .mov to .wmv dvd quality, to see if it’s much better than the 'Kate’s' version.

I don’t think there are any .wmv dvd quality converter programs which are free after a trial.

OH DEAR. I’ve just viewed the file conversion which took over 30 minutes to convert a 58 second video. It came out as a Jpeg file, though I still can see I had selected from the 'convert to' list: WMV for Windows Media Player DVD quality (2 mbps).

How’s the Windows Media conversion quality with Movavi?

FirstlyMy digital camera produces really bright results in its video capture when there is a big difference in lighting - it chooses to show the darker parts well and the bright parts are strobes of light nearly. The whole frame cannot adjust, only part of it. Really bright light is well adjusted to, eg. outdoors in daytime, when it takes up the whole frame, but not otherwise.

The movavi conversion is much worse. The .mov file and original L.E.D. camera display are O.K. when the big variation in light comes - it’s not good but not too bad. Movavi has made it unwatchable.

But, aside from that, the quality is slightly improved from the .mov file where the lighting is uniform in the frames. And the movement is much improved, and some reproduction of lit objects are well improved. The lighting problem does make the whole video I’ve converted unwatchable though, and it’s in normal, indoor, daytime light. Just don’t capture near a window or open door!

Also, the trial is only a trial - movavi stamp “Movavi trial version” in big writing which covers much of the frame during most of the video conversion. It can’t be removed.

I wouldn’t buy it, because it chooses not to convert the not too bad quality video pictures I have taken with a cheap camera. I’m not going to choose to limit myself to indoor videos which have me standing in front of and away from the light source only.

I WANT CONVERT MOV TO AVI FILE

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Thanks a bunch! I tried the RADTOOLS program to covert my .mov file downloaded from a kodak digcam and it works now.....thanks!!

Martin11 wrote: btw My camera is a Nikon Coolpic 7900, and the cheap basterds over at Nikon didn’t provide any video edition software, instead they advised me to purchase my own software.

hi - I’ve got exactly the same, it stitches every other Audio Visual file I have, and keeps the sound tracks - apart from the ones I produce on my own Nikon Cool Pix - where it looses the original sound. Any idea how to fix it ? How did you get on ? thanks. Colin

can i use winzip to convert .mov into AVI? I think i heard someone say once thats what they use??

Thanks all...

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I haven’t tried the software mentioned above. I’m just coming across this page today when trying to convert .mov files from my new Kodak Easyshare camera for the first time.

I’ve used RealPlayer and Media Player Classic to view my short digital camera files before this, both free. Now I’m trying longer videos on a memory card for the first time. (Both of these are free, and M.P. Classic is very good for a free D.V.D. viewer - you don’t have to pay for upgrades to RealPlayer or WMV if you play videos on M.P.C.

But the best actually for many data movie files from The Web or hardware etc. is the latest QuickTime player. You can update if you have an old version. The quality is substantially better than with the other two media players I’ve tried. Many people post video on The Web, telling viewers to play it on QuickTime, because it is better, at least for .move files as they are the QuickTime’s own files, but some others are better on QuickTime I think.

I found 'Kate’s Video Cutter' and installed it, it’s free. I’ve tried one conversion, to W.M.V., for Windows Media Player, but the result is too bad - the quality is poor when the quality from a cheap digital camera is not great anyway.

I don’t know what the Kodak Easyshare model mentioned above is like for video capture. My Easyshare camera (C813) has the typical V.G.A. resolution for video capture which is probably the lowest acceptable resolution for most people. I guess the other model is the same if it’s a normal digital camera first, rather than a camcorder design, though the video capture might be improved if it has a CMOS sensor.

I’m also trying Movavi video converter version 6.3 It has very good options for conversion, though the free operation is only in a trial version, and then one would have to pay. I’m just trying my first conversion in my trial, from .mov to .wmv dvd quality, to see if it’s much better than the 'Kate’s' version.

I don’t think there are any .wmv dvd quality converter programs which are free after a trial.

I downloaded the RadTools, then tried to convert one of my .mov files to .avi. I just got an error message that it couldn’t open the .mov file, and then another error message that it couldn’t open the audio file for the song.

I have Windows Media Player on my laptop, but I don’t want to pay for Quicktime Pro. Anyone out there who can help me?

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Okay, so now I decided to download the SourceForge converter that Greywolf promotes...and I can get the pictures converted, but no audio. I’ve tried configuring it via every option I can see, but still no audio.

Some of you just keep saying “Go back and read pages [whatever]," but the reason I’m writing is because I can’t find the information I’m looking for on any of the previous pages. Maybe it IS there, but I might be too technologically ignorant to understand it.

I can’t afford to pay for any additional software. I’m flat broke, and there’s nothing I can do about that. $30 might not seem like much to some of you, but it’s 1/3 of my entire food budget for a month, so I can’t cut into it. Isn’t there anything freeware or shareware out there that can solve this problem?

The cameras I’m using are a GE A735, and a Nikon CoolPix 4600. All my movies from either camera are .mov files. I’m using Vista on my laptop, and we have Windows 2007 on another family computer, in case that makes a difference.

Please help!

I got the Radtools .mov converter...and it converted the files...but it converted it so that my movie plays at a really slow speed...I tried to convert so that there would be more frames per second, but it is still really slow...I read the directions so what am I doing wrong?

I think we should email the link to this page to KODAK EASY SHARE... THEY are the source of the problem. If they made software with decent file association none of this would happen.

Okay well I downloaded the Rad Bink Smack converter thing and Umm it was really easy! But when I tried to import it into Wmm or play it on Wmp it didn’t work and said the file was corrupted.. So any help?

I have a Kodak C633 digital camera with a movie setting, common on a lot of digital still cameras nowadays. And, I too, wish to utilize this function for making neat little videos to share with friends and my profession. However, Kodak for some reason saw fit to use MOV as the file type which, or course, is NOT compatible with Windows media player because MOV is basically Apple. How nice. These people are not complete idiots, just greedy and otherwise sort of tech-dolts. This reminds me of other stupid format wars we always pay for: Beta vs. VHS and Bitmap vs. JPG. Now it MOV vs. AVI. Sooo sily and greedy.

A word on Free Video Converter downloads: First off, they are not free. They either contain tons of junk Adware files that pollute your hard drive, have time truncated use features, are limited life use (usually about a year before you have to pay again), pop-ups, downloadable only, with no hard copy CD available, limited file types, no help line, no contact phone number, or all of the above. These software/cyberware critters are basically digital bandits who actually don’t sell you anything. They just sort of half-assed lease it to you for about a year and charge you again. Who’s kidding who here?

Not knowing anything about these so called “freeware” file conversion programs or “Video converters," I blindly downloading a couple and learned my lesson. I am still removing tracking and other gear files from my hard drive. It is sad that bald faced lying is just has become a part of the American way of doing business today. I am sooo weary of crooks.

If some knows of a truly Free video converter program that will compress and convert MOV to AVI, please let me know. Thanks, Gere