[Matthijs Van noort]

Yes, that works and it’s free. But be aware, it takes a very long time. Quicktime can either ‘rewrap’ or ‘rerender’ with help of Perian.

Rewrapping is quite fast, but I had problems with the ‘rewrapped’ file, so I had to rerender anyhow. Rerender took forever, both with quicktime as well as with adobe. It’s definately not a fast way to go. I think bottleneck is the quicktime component.
It was 40 hours against one hour in my case.

[Matthijs Van noort]

Headaches and long hours of waiting, tried Quicktime and Adobe.
I needed to edit footage from a 3 hour MKV movie. After 35 hours hardly halfway.
Rewrapping wasn’t an option because AE went berzerk trying to edit or render.

I bought a program called Pavtube Video Converter (about 30 euro) and that did the conversion within an hour, with perfect quality and everything in sync. Lots of formats to choose from, including lossless/raw. Multithread conversion. So I’d bang a buck.