.mpg to .mov on the mac

I was just wondering if anyone knows how to convert .mpg files to .mov files on a Mac. I’ve found some programs that do it on a PC, but I’m not having any luck figuring out how to do it on a Mac. Thanks! (I’m trying to open a .mpg clip in iMovie and it won’t let me. I think I need to convert it to a .mov (or some other file type) first.)

Thanks for any help!
Nikki

QuickTime Pro would probably be the way to go, but I don’t know if audio conversion for mpeg-1 works on the mac.

P.S: From the way you phrased the question, I conjectured you just want to play the file.
Have you tried QuickTime Player or VideoLan (http://www.videolan.org)?
You can also give mplayer for mac os a try. It’ll play just about any format. (http://mplayerosx.sourceforge.net) (Why is that relevant, you ask? On file sharing networks people have a nasty habit of renaming avi’s and windows media files into mpg. This is not a problem for Windows Media Player (on PC’s) as it doesn’t go by extension to play a file, but it can be for other programs and operating systems, which may not support avi or windows media natively for example.)

Thanks for your quick reply, I really appreciate it! I do need audio conversion... it’s a clip of me singing, so the audio is really the most important part of the clip. I’m actually not having any trouble getting the file to play on my computer, what I want to do is download it into iMovie so I can cut the end of the clip off and then reduce the file size. I’d like to put it on my website, but right now it is such a huge file it takes way too much time to download. So, I basically need a way to edit it, and I know how to do that in iMovie, but it won’t let me import a .mpg. There’s my conundrum...
Thanks!

i googled some and found this
http://www.alfanet.it/squared5/mpegstreamclip.html
mpegstreamclip (freeware) should do the trick. you can convert the mpeg-1 either to digital video or quicktime for editing in imovie.

P.S: ignore my quicktime pro comment earlier. the board gets mostly pc-related questions and i know relatively little about macs (which btw are fine machines - if they had mac os x running on pc hardware i’d buy it in a heartbeat)

HOORAY!!! 'Anonymous,' you are a genious! That worked like a charm... and it was freeware no less! Thank you sooooo much!

Nikki
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www.nikkitomlinson.com

Thank you for this thread!!! After so much googling I almost went blind, that link gave me the one step easy solution!

Anonymous.. you are the most fabulous.

hugs, kisses, and kudos to you for saving my project!!!

this HAS to be the most useful thing ever - THANK YOU!

just wanted to say hugs thanks for the person who left the info on how to change mpg to mov files. It was brilliant

anonymous you are a genius. you stopped me from having to throw this mac out the window!

thank you sooo sooo soo much anonymous... this is the biggest lifesaver ever!

Another free conversion program:

http://diva.3ivx.com/

Nice one whoever you are.
You saved me money and it’s Christmas.

Thanks

PY

thankyou, anonymous!

anonymous thank you very much!

I LOVE ANONYMOUS!! MARRY ME! lol

goto http://www.media-convert.com

select your input file (and the format if not automatically detected)


scroll down

select your output format as .mov

and it will convert it for you, you can then download it from the website

its free... no sign up too.. soo pretty cool

more information on convertion is also avialable on http://rudebox.editboard.com

thank you very much for the information, it was great for me to convert the files to use them in iDVD.

yeah i’m probably gonna feel dumb after someone answers this, but i downloaded that converter anonymous was talking about and converted the mpeg to a mov but now i can’t get iMovie to take the mov... what do i do?

OMG thank thank thank thank thank you sooooo much!!!