Help moving pictures pooh

[TdC]

for a, uh, recent project I am using the film capabilities of my little camera to do some stuff. it seems to work well enough, it records at VGA and 30fps which seems awesome

I am incensed with fury at the shiteness of movie programmes though :/
my camera records things as a MOV, I need a converter to change it to
an AVI, then I put it into windows movie maker, which ultimately saves
it as a WAV iirc. which is HUGE in size, so I will need to shrink or compress the output.

now I've had a google and a browse on the freeware sites, and up to now I am not impressed. the offered produce either doesn't work at all, only partially works because people want money -or your email -or nekkid pics, or downright has to be paid for, or a plethora of other reasons (like making my virus scanner go off)

So please advise me on the following:

• decent and free MOV to AVI converter installable on Vista
• decent and free program that can compress any kind of video (and installs on vista)

cheers in advance!

 

[Bob007]

Not sure on software and such but i know if anyone asks me a question to do with Windows Movie Maker, I send them to Papa John. Might be worth a look.

Quick look. Import Movie Source Files > Video > Mov give a list of converters.

 

[Dark Orb Choir]

convertxtodvd

AVI to DVD Video Converter Software VSO ConvertXtoDVD Download now

best i have ever used

keycodes can be found at the local swedish tracking site

 

[Cyradix]

Doesn't the zoo where you are going to swaffle the elephant have security cameras? Those might have better picture quality than your camera

 

[TdC]

they'll never catch me!!

 

[Cyradix]

Try Super... it can convert almost everything and is freeware. SUPER © .

 

[Edmond]

convertxtodvd

AVI to DVD Video Converter Software VSO ConvertXtoDVD Download now

best i have ever used

keycodes can be found at the local swedish tracking site

Me too, used for a few years now, there may be better, but its what i'm used to and it works well

 

[phlash]

I'd probably use VLC (VideoLAN - Free and Open Source software and video streaming solutions for every OS!), and fiddle with the stream/transcode options to convert your camera input to whatever compressed format you wish (probably MPEG4 or perhaps VC-1/WMV9).

 

[Wazzerphuk]

Not sure if it'll run on vista but vdub is excellent.

 

[TdC]

I'd probably use VLC (VideoLAN - Free and Open Source software and video streaming solutions for every OS!), and fiddle with the stream/transcode options to convert your camera input to whatever compressed format you wish (probably MPEG4 or perhaps VC-1/WMV9).

hmm I think this is the best option, as I already have VLC installed. I'll give it a go tonight!

 

[mookie]

if you've got lots of bandwidth, check out Zamzar - email them the files and they send you a nice little link to download the freshly converted files.

also - fuck me, nostalgia.

 

[Malecheon]

Try Super... it can convert almost everything and is freeware. SUPER © .

I will 2nd the vote for Super. I just downloaded it recently to convert some avi's to DVD format but it can cope with just about anything.

 

[Yaka]

HandBrake free quick and easy

 

[Raven]

Vituadub
Sony Vegas

Job done

You will have to fiddle with options to get the best results.

 

[TdC]

well I did try with VLC, and it seems to have worked...maybe....possibly...

 

[Tom]

VLC is good at this, but get the latest version.