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Converting movie files – help
Totally O.T. but I know there’s lots of computery people about here so hopefully someone can help.
I have a pentax (W30) camera for kayaking and just realised yesterday that when you take video it saves the files as .mov. This is fine except I can’t put videos together with windows movie maker as it doesn’t recognise this file format. So is there a way to change the camera file type (I can’t find anything on the camera, and I’m not sure where the instructions are) or is there free software to let me convert these to something useful?
Cheers for any help (yes I seem to be skiving today but everyone else is at T in the park and it’s hard to get motivation when it’s just me and a pile of invoicing)
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.mov is what my hard drive video camera records in, same with my digital camera… it is NOT the easiest format to work wth because so many softwares do not support it. some may open it but not save in it. if your wantng to open it, edit and save as a win media format i would suggest buying the following software http://www.cyberlink.com/multi/products/main_4_ENU.html
the software is very good but "wont" resave in .mov. it will just allow you to open it and save in various other formats.quicktime pro (full version) i think lets you open and save in another format but doesnt allow you to edit the footage, amongst a few others i have naively bought. 😕 i have both director and quicktime so i think it were me ide go for director 6.
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Cheers Rob, it is just to resave to use in windows movie maker so I was hoping to do it for free, but maybe that’s not going to be an option?
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hi gavin, the director software is a free trial download. i dont know if its a time limit thing or if its restrictions over the full package that make it the free download. it came free with my video camera but i had to pay to upgrade it to the full version to be able to export in various formats etc
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Cheers Rob, I’ll give that a try. Only got one guy going over a waterfall on video and that has my foot in the shot! Going to the Etive again tomorrow and it’s very photogenic there are some people who haven’t paddled it before so it’s nice to get a wee vid of our exploits.
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