windows media player/ movie maker error

i have windows vista home edition, and i make videos for my skate team. our
main camera broke, so we have to use my SVP camera. i use windows movie maker
for every video, and the camera uses .MOV format, and windows movie maker for
videos, and it doesnt allow that format. how can i change the format?

..Mov is a quicktime (apple) format, which is proprietary. It's a pain in
the butt... and honestly, is the reason why I only purchase cameras that use
open source formats. Basically, microsoft doesn't want to pay apple to use
their format, and us as the consumers get hosed as a result.

If there is a way to setup you camera so it records in .mpg or .mov format,
that's your best options

There are some quicktime to apple converters on the internet. but I haven't
found anything free that works well. I've downloaded a couple of trial
versions, but haven't found anything that works perfectly yet.

Sorry I can't be of more help, maybe someone from Microsoft will have better
news for you.

"brendon" wrote:

> i have windows vista home edition, and i make videos for my skate team. our
> main camera broke, so we have to use my SVP camera. i use windows movie maker
> for every video, and the camera uses .MOV format, and windows movie maker for
> videos, and it doesnt allow that format. how can i change the format?

On Sun, 7 Dec 2008 19:49:00 -0800, brendon
<brendon@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>i have windows vista home edition, and i make videos for my skate team. our
>main camera broke, so we have to use my SVP camera. i use windows movie maker
>for every video, and the camera uses .MOV format, and windows movie maker for
>videos, and it doesnt allow that format. how can i change the format?


Apple Quicktime player will play those. To convert the format, you'd
probably be best getting a Quicktime Pro license (which turns the free
player into Pro version) and that will then let you export the video
in a range of formats, including AVI which moviemaker should be able
to read and convert, with a little persuasio.

HTH
Cheers - Neil
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