Quicktime movie edits

[DoubleDip]

Hello, is there a program which can edit and change the format of the quicktime movies an Oly C-5050 camera takes. These are low resolution video clips, but they can tell a story, I would like to incorporate them in a small Windows Movie Maker show, But the format isnt compatable, any suggestions?

 

[diversteve]

Hello, is there a program which can edit and change the format of the quicktime movies an Oly C-5050 camera takes. These are low resolution video clips, but they can tell a story, I would like to incorporate them in a small Windows Movie Maker show, But the format isnt compatable, any suggestions?

google Quicktime converter - there's lots of them. Here's a couple of results:

http://www.tomdownload.com/multimedia_design/video/mpeg_converter_mov_converter_mpg_converter.htm
http://www.artech365.com/mpeg4maker/index.htm

 

[Warthaug]

google Quicktime converter - there's lots of them. Here's a couple of results:

These converters will do the job - but when converting make sure you are converting to an uncompressed AVI format. This is to minimize the number of times the video is recoded, as recoding results in artefacts within the video. By coverting to uncompressed AVI you essentially minimize these errors by doing all of your production work with a format which is not prone to artifacts. Ideally, you would edit the quicktimes without re-authoring (even QT->AVI conversion will create artifacts), but in order to do this you need a more comprehensive video package like Videowave or Preimere.

Now all that said, it's unlikely that the artefacts will be too notisable on your video, considering the relativly low resolution and frame rate you'll be dealing with...

Bryan