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On this warm sunny day (NOT) I'm trying to convert some QuickTime mov files to Windows Media wmv file format. An app I'm using can't use QuickTime files due to a codec limitation. (Windows Media Player can't read a QuickTime file - and QuickTime DirectDraw codec costs $500 from the only codec source I've located online.)

What app do you folks use to convert from mov to wmv? (Windows XP/SP2)

Thanks.
Tom
28F outside, 25-35mph winds, sleet and freezing rain since midnight. Fun.
 
Tom,

I use Windows Movie Maker to convert my digital camera
avi into wmv . I also have XP

I'm pretty sure Windows Movie Maker is a freebie download.

That Quick Time is rotten software. IMO

d
 
I've got a few things I've used to tinker with video, but... you can buy Quicktime Pro ($30) or search around: here are a few links to get you started,
and here.

There are codecs around you might be able to use for something, like this one.

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:]That Quick Time is rotten software. IMO[/QUOTE]

What... Apple make something bad? Say it ain't so! They haven't made a lot of friends with some of their iPod stuff too /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/smile.gif
 
Thanks for the ideas gents.

Dale - does Movie Maker convert Quicktime movies into Windows Media WMV format? That's what I'm looking for.

Scott - does Quicktime Pro allow export to WMV format? I don't mind the $30 at all if it does the job (convert MOV into WMV). Sadly, Apple and MS aren't exactly chummy, especially in the RealMedia vs Quicktime vs Windows Media area.

Edit: I had actually already tried those links. Amazing how many of them start with "here's what you want" and later on in the thread you read "but it didn't work for me". And the "QuickTime alternative required that I *remove* Quicktime and reboot before running. And after I did all that - it didn't change a thing! Whee!

Edit 2: doesn't look good for QTPro exporting to WMV:

https://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=5878345

Amazing. Onward through the fog!

Tom
 
No, it doesn't go directly to .wmv but it will give you an .avi. Media player, and just about everything else around will play .avi files (as long as you encode it properly).
 
Windows Movie Maker won't do it.

I prefer to use Sony Vegas to do MOV-WMV conversions. Doom9.org will have a list of 'freeware' and 'shareware' tools that you can use to do the conversion, but in my experience none of them are as complete, easy to use, or as versatile as Sony Vegas...

I loved Adobe Premier for video editing way back in the day, but the last version I looked at had serious stability issues on Windows. So, it's fallen off my radar of useful tools.
 
Tinster said:
That Quick Time is rotten software. IMO

d
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There is a special place in Hades, down the hall from Hitler, for the guy who wrote quicktime....

/bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/devilgrin.gif

I'd just as soon load LimeWire AND Gator AND Weatherbug than let that ratzenfratzen quicktime hijack my system.
 
/bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/lol.gif

I have a client's workstation here right now... he ~somehow~ wound up with QuickTime loaded on it. Hateful. /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/wall.gif
 
bah... QuickTime isn't that bad... for a media/video player that I truly despise which I consider to be a special spot: RealPlayer... that's one piece of bloatware that's gone down the crapper since it's inception.
 
There are a couple of program I have been using by boilsoft. They convert most anything into anything else. The site is boilsoft.com.
 
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