Bleg: DVD
Got a Kodak Playsport video and I love it. Trouble is, it record movies as .mov files. The wife wants to burn home movies to DVD to play on the TeeVee. And windows DVD maker doesn’t dig on .mov. So, what dvd maker do you recommend for .mov files?
May 22nd, 2010 at 9:20 pm
I’m trying to find the same thing. All the freeware versions are pretty limited. Some put a watermark on your video, and some only record 70% of the file – which can be “fixed” by putting a blank screen on the end of your video that lasts for about 43% of the running time of your movie.
I think that one’s called Smart DVD Creator.
May 22nd, 2010 at 9:25 pm
Handbrake is open source, and does a whole bunch of encode/decode/recode stuff. It might take you a 3 step process, but I bet it can be sorted out.
May 22nd, 2010 at 9:27 pm
I’d imagine VLC would transcode the video stream into a container more friendly for Windows Movie Maker.
May 22nd, 2010 at 9:55 pm
Quick search turned up this. It will convert from .mov to .avi with no quality loss. You’ll have to copy and paste since my blog link fu is non existent.
http://mp4cam2avi.sourceforge.net/
If that won’t work, do a bit of searching here and you’ll likely find your answer.
http://www.videohelp.com/
Sounds like it’s going to take a couple steps not matter what you use.
May 22nd, 2010 at 9:56 pm
+1 for Handbrake.
get it here:
http://handbrake.fr/downloads.php
May 22nd, 2010 at 10:06 pm
Handbrake is great if you want to downconvert to a smaller format, say DVD to a portable format. Problem is it will be lossy converting to DVD. With the limited bitrate of these pocket camcorders they are a bit less tolerant of a conversion and will suffer quality loss if not done properly. The resolution is there but the bitrate of the video is not and quality will suffer as a result.
May 22nd, 2010 at 10:22 pm
I have tons of experience with Convert X to DVD from VSO.
Get it here http://www.vso-software.fr/products/convert_x_to_dvd/
It works great, lets you build menus, chapters, and all that stuff you would expect from a dvd software.
May 22nd, 2010 at 10:23 pm
And if you look hard enough you can find a ‘trial’ version on the torrent networks.
May 22nd, 2010 at 10:52 pm
DivX
May 23rd, 2010 at 9:06 am
not sure about that file format, but most formats have converters. I would go to downloads.com and try to find a format converter. should be pretty easy.
May 23rd, 2010 at 1:57 pm
AVS4YOU, not free, but cheap, works very well and can convert HD with no loss. I use it at work to do conversions from diffrent departments.
May 23rd, 2010 at 8:43 pm
Free and easy. Been using it for years.
http://www.squared5.com/
May 23rd, 2010 at 10:51 pm
Ok, somebody has to say it…I use iDVD to make .mov’s, AVI’s and such to DVD.
Sorry
May 23rd, 2010 at 11:31 pm
If you’re using Linux, then devede is a good solution. It’s very, very simple to use and meets simple needs well.
May 27th, 2010 at 10:42 pm
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