Digital Camera Video File Conversion

@capirani (2817)
United States
April 9, 2008 11:37pm CST
Does anyone know anything about converting digital camera .mov files to .avi or any other format that will work when you burn your videos to cd's or dvd's? I know there are file conversion programs online that I could download for free, but I have no idea how to choose the best program. Any ideas or any experience with this?
1 response
@crackhead (1826)
• India
10 Apr 08
Rad Tools - Rad video Tools for quicktime
Yeah it is easy to convert .mov to .avi. The QuickTime MOV format is the video output format for many digital still cameras. MOV is also becoming very popular as the distribution format for video bloggers; primarily because many video bloggers are also Mac users. If you want to edit your MOV files in Windows Movie Maker or playback video blogs on one of the many portable video players from companies like Creative and Archos, it becomes necessary to convert those files to a compatible format. In most cases, converting to AVI is the quickest intermediate step for converting MOV to something portable to applications and portable devices. One of the easiest tools to use for converting MOV to AVI is RAD Video Tools. The app relies on QuickTime for all video conversions, requiring you to have QuickTime player installed on your system. To convert a MOV (or any other video) using RAD Video Tools, first locate the video you want to convert. You can find out information about the video file using the File Info, including frame rate, resolution, number of frames, data rate, color depth and a handful of features.
@capirani (2817)
• United States
13 Apr 08
I have heard of RAD and it was at the top of my list so far. Have you ever used it then and burned the converted files to CD or DVD and have the sound and picture work properly? That is my main concern. I want all my grandkids videos to be on CD or DVD so I can get them to their parents and other family, but without the sound they are useless. I know they won't work in DVD players, but these people all have computers.