Converting .MOV to .WMV (Help Please)

[Ian Newton]

Does anyone know how to convert .mov files to a file that can be used in Windows Movie Maker please?

Someone just gave me a digital camera which produces movies and I want to edit them and put several clips together so I can use then in PowerPoint.

Is there a free way of doing this in Windows XP?

What is the best way to do this?

Many thanks


Ian

[Ian Newton]

'Scott' Cundiff helped by prompting me to look at the free Riva Encoder

http://rivavx.de/index.php?downloads&L=3

I couldn't get Riva to successful convert to WMV files but I could get it to convert .MOV to .MPG files and Windows Movie Maker works with these and then I can save WMV files in Windows Movie Maker.

Now I can create movie clips to use in Powerpoint, as if I had nothing else to do in the next few days.

Have a great Christmas everyone and thanks Scott

[Dave McClung]

'Scott' Cundiff helped by prompting me to look at the free Riva Encoder

http://rivavx.de/index.php?downloads&L=3

I couldn't get Riva to successful convert to WMV files but I could get it to convert .MOV to .MPG files and Windows Movie Maker works with these and then I can save WMV files in Windows Movie Maker.

Now I can create movie clips to use in Powerpoint, as if I had nothing else to do in the next few days.

Have a great Christmas everyone and thanks Scott

I had the same problem and tried some freeware, but ended up buying a converter. If the freeware doesn't work, let me know and I will research what I used.

[G R 'Scott' Cundiff]

I just downloaded and tried a program called "Super" -- its a big one, 25 megs. Wanted to convert a flv file into a different format. When I tried it with other programs the result was a file that ran too fast.

Using Super, I was able to make a wmv file that ran correctly. I was then able to load it into Windows Movie Maker and edit the file down a bit.

I haven't used Super for anything else yet, but I am impressed with what it did with that flv file.

http://www.erightsoft.com/S6Kg1.html