Nikon, in their infinite wisdom, decided .mov is the standart for DSLR video. Now I didn't plan on using the video function at all, so that didn't matter to me. I abhor home video's, there's nothing worse than watching weddings, kids birthdays or births(we need a puking smily here...)! However, the grandparents are crying for moving images of my brood, and the Nikon works best in low light, so there I am. Now these .mov's, whatever their pluspoint may be, are gigantic (so no sending even 15 sec. video's over the net) and don't play on standart video devices like DVD-players with USB, or their TV. How do I convert these .mov into something...more universally read? Like Avi, or mpeg? What format (again...small and most universally read, I'm not going to do a dogma 95-film here) would you advice upon, and what software to convert?
Couple of suggestions here. Shame AutoGK hasn't been updated to the HD formats yet, it's such a brilliant bit of kit.
.mov is just a container... it's just a H264 mpeg 4 file really. Don't believe me? Just change the .mov suffix to .mp4. It will still play. All you need to do is make it smaller. Handbrake can do that.
That's hilarious - I was always under the impression that .mov was proprietary, just like Apple's horriffic locked iTunes audio format.
Actually...nope, it doesn't play it as .mov nor as .MP4 anyway, I tried "FormatFactory"...it failed epically. Maybe something's really wrong, Nikon's own "ViewNX - Movie" cannot open this camera's files anyway I'm recoding with Handbrake now. It takes 10 min's to convert 30 sec's of video...I need a new processor Update: it works ;-)
m4a is locked? when did that happen? last time i checked, AAC - the format with the extension m4a - was a free codec, making it cheaper and more open to implement than mp3
A question about Handbrake. Only output options seem to be MP4 and MKV, all apple-compatible. can't it make a "standart" AVI or MPG?
I didn't mean that m4a is locked, I mean that iTunes lock their audio files so they can only be played on iTunes... which is why I never buy from iTunes. I have three or four songs that I bought from iTunes and they are locked, meaning they will play only on iTunes and I can't convert them to anything else unless I rip the audio whilst it's playing... but if I'm gonna do that, I don't need to buy it in the first place.
itunes audio is not locked. it was once, it isn't any more. delete them, redownload them. they'll be unlocked. (this is now possible with the 'purchased' section in the store)
It's been so long since I've purchased from iTunes (for reasons stated above) that this is news to me. Thanks for the heads up, and I will do so straight away.
Something else going on there then, as .mov is just a H264 encoded mpeg. I can change the suffix here and it plays with every player I have. from Wiki.... "Because both MOV and MP4 containers can use the same MPEG-4 codecs, they are mostly interchangeable in a QuickTime-only environment." I've found this to be the case. Here's a video of it happening on my desktop. Also... on the upload page for YouTube, it says this... Even though I saved the video out from Premiere as a H264 MPEG4, YouTube recognises it as a MOV file. The two are essentially the same with some very minor differences.
I'm probably a bit simple... can Handbrake not produce anything but .MKV or .MP4? 0.93 was supposed to output AVI as well...0.95 doesn't anymore?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_free_video_converters i use freemake regularly. what are you using for editing?
Simple: It doesn't run on a lot of (older) devices. I don't edit at all, just want to output in a format that'l run onmost legacy devices, USB-capable TV's, Netbooks, (not newest apple stuff). Stuff like that that I've been using for years to run the Avi's that drop out of my old pentax. I've had this stuff running on a 400Mhz Celeron, but MP4 makes my system stutter Format-Factory (in the Wikipedia-link) turns the .Mov into a single frame picture (supposed to be .Avi)
