Kodak EasyShare Video to Windows Movie Maker

[Guest]

My daughter needs to make a movie for school and the only video recorder we
have is on our Kodak Digital Camera. Microsoft Movie Maker makes a much
better video, but it won't accept the .mov file extension. Can I just change
the extension? If so, how???? If not, can I change anything on my EasyShare
setup to make the extension automatically go to mpg or anything else so that
we can use Movie Maker? The editting on EasyShare videos is so sloppy and
they won't be able to play it at school without loading Easyshare software to
their computer.

 

[John Inzer]

My daughter needs to make a movie for school and the only video
recorder we have is on our Kodak Digital Camera. Microsoft Movie
Maker makes a much better video, but it won't accept the .mov file
extension. Can I just change the extension? If so, how???? If not,
can I change anything on my EasyShare setup to make the extension
automatically go to mpg or anything else so that we can use Movie
Maker? The editting on EasyShare videos is so sloppy and they won't
be able to play it at school without loading Easyshare software to
their computer.

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As you have discovered, QuickTime .mov
files are not compatible with Movie Maker.
The best conversion tool is probably the
retail version of Apple QuickTime Pro.

Beyond that...maybe the following links will
offer some ideas:

Using Rad Video Tools
http://tinyurl.com/pd244

Movie Maker 2 - Converting
MOV Files
http://tinyurl.com/rmhu6

Convert .mov using TMPGEnc
and the TMPGEnc Mov Plugin
http://tinyurl.com/r9ssf


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John Inzer
MS Picture It! -
Digital Image MVP

Digital Image
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I am a volunteer

Solutions that work for
me may not work for you

Proceed at your own risk

 

[Guest]

Thank you, John. For some reason I couldn't get the RAD tools to work. I
installed the necessary Quicktime update, but when I hit the convert key
after typing in my file name the whole shebang just disappeared. (3 different
tries.) No window came up asking me for file type or anything. And no file
was converted. Right now I'm working with SmartSoft Video Converter and it
converted the files but seems to be cutting them off at the end. I'm still
working on why. If that doesn't work I'll try option 3. Thanks! I'm sure the
RADtools would work if I requested online help. I just want this project
done! I've burnt 3 batches of cookies figuring this out...But, your advice
was wonderful! Thanks again!!! Hope everyone else reads your advice. My
advice to them: check out SmartSoft first. It is a little clumsier and you'll
need to eventually buy it, but it works with the system components you
already have.
Mary

 

[Guest]

Hopefully this is my last post, I've replied to your post a couple times,
each learning something new. If you Google Covert Video you get a ton of
software. I tried WinMPG Videos, avs4youvideo, SmartSoft Video Converter and
NCH Software Prism. All of these had strengths and weaknesses. For your
dollar and time, NCH Software - Prism is the absolute best. They let you use
the software for free in hopes of selling you something else BUT they are one
of the few who don't put a watermark on your videos when you take the "free
trial." Kind of useless but I understand the market. Thanks again. Your
suggestions led me down all the right roads and now I'll have happy 13 year
old girls with a great video for their project. (I hope I get some sort of
credit for this. It's 1:14 AM and I've been at this since around 8:30!) So,
to all, try Prism is my recommendation!
Mary

 

[John Inzer]

Hopefully this is my last post, I've replied to your post a couple
times, each learning something new. If you Google Covert Video you
get a ton of software. I tried WinMPG Videos, avs4youvideo, SmartSoft
Video Converter and NCH Software Prism. All of these had strengths
and weaknesses. For your dollar and time, NCH Software - Prism is the
absolute best. They let you use the software for free in hopes of
selling you something else BUT they are one of the few who don't put
a watermark on your videos when you take the "free trial." Kind of
useless but I understand the market. Thanks again. Your suggestions
led me down all the right roads and now I'll have happy 13 year old
girls with a great video for their project. (I hope I get some sort
of credit for this. It's 1:14 AM and I've been at this since around
8:30!) So, to all, try Prism is my recommendation!
Mary

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I'm glad you found a solution.

Prism looks interesting...thanks for the info.


--

John Inzer
MS Picture It! -
Digital Image MVP

Digital Image
Highlights and FAQs
http://tinyurl.com/aczzp

Notice
This is not tech support
I am a volunteer

Solutions that work for
me may not work for you

Proceed at your own risk

 

[debellischew]

Total video converter supports this format file very well.
http://www.effectmatrix.com