How can I convert .mov filies to .avi?

[Theo Van laar]

SUPER c videoconvertor:

https://www.erightsoft.com/SUPER.html

Theo

[Mike Kujbida]

Norman, I deal with MOV files a few times a year as the place I rent gear from to do long-form work records everything to a Mac using Final Cut.
I have no issues editing this footage afterwards on my quad core.
If you really wanted to, you could render it out as DV-AVI (assuming this is standard def video) but, if you have a strong enough computer, there’s really no reason to.

[John Rofrano]

AVI is the native container for PC/Windows. MOV is the native container for Mac/OSX. In general, everything on a PC likes AVI better than MOV because it’s the preferred format. This is further enforced by the fact that Quicktime on a PC has less features/codecs than Quicktime on a Mac (probably an intentional move by Apple).

As Mike said, there really is no need to convert. I use MOV files interchangeably with AVI files all the time and have no problems. Any 3D work that I do is output as a Quicktime Animation MOV file and use in Vegas. So don’t think you need to convert them… you don’t. They work just fine providing they contain a codec that Vegas supports.

~jr

http://www.johnrofrano.com
http://www.vasst.com

[Norman Willis]

It’s nice to see I’m not the only night-owl (lol).

OK, I’ll just try to work with the .mov files, and if it won’t work, then I’ll download Super(C), and convert.

Thanks!

[Omer Aydin]

>>>Quicktime on a PC has less features/codecs than Quicktime on a Mac (probably an intentional move by Apple).

I didn’t know that. Apple charges $29.99 for both versions of QT Pro 7 for PC and Mac.

I’ve browsed the Apple.com to compare the features unfortunately couldn’t find any differences because codecs/features buttons on MAC and PC pages both link to the same single list of features page.
https://www.apple.com/quicktime/pro/specs.html

Do you have any link for the list of features/codecs that are not available in PC.