Re: How to edit a .MOV file on Windows?

frank@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote in news:1146367233.331864.177930
@y43g2000cwc.googlegroups.com:

Hi,

I have a Kodak digital camera which also records short video clips. The
videos are stored in a Quicktime format (*.MOV file) by the camera.

Like most people, I use Windows, not Macintosh. I can open these videos
with Quicktime player, but all I can do is play them - I can't edit
them, compress them, or save them in other formats.

Kodak told me I should buy Apple's video editing software - I checked
into this option, but their software only runs on a Macintosh.

I have Windows Movie Maker on my PC, but it won't open a Quicktime
file.

I need either (a) some kind of video editing software for Windows that
can handle this file, or (b) some kind of utility that can convert it
to something I can use with Windows Movie Maker.

Can anyone recommend a product that can help me?

Thanks,
Frank

PS. Why on earth would a company like Kodak choose to have its default
format be something that's only usable by, what is it, the 3% of people
who still use Apple computers? If I'd known that before I bought the
camera I'd probably have gotten something else.


My Nikon camera uses the *.mov format also. I've got some software that's
reporting the files as MJPEG (Motion JPEG).

One of these days, when I have the time, I'm going to dig through my files
and find some MJPEG codecs to install on my computer. I'm wondering if I'll
be able to use VirtualDub for editing?

Maybe rename the fourcc and rename the extension to *.avi to use in
VirtualDub?

I dunno. Anyway, in the meantime, I've been converting those Nikon *.mov
files to DVD/VOB-iso using TMPGEnc (Tsunami MPEG Encoder) and it works fine.
I'm not sure that Tsunami natively supports *.mov. It might be the case that
I had to install a VFAPI plug-in to gain support for the *.mov files.

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