[527] in winnt
Re: .MOV to .MPEG
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Albert Willis)
Wed Aug 16 12:30:34 2000
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Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2000 12:29:58 -0400
To: Dave Broderick <djbroder@mit.edu>, ntpartners@mit.edu, itpartners@mit.edu
From: Albert Willis <awillis@MIT.EDU>
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At 9:17 AM -0400 8/16/2000, Dave Broderick wrote:
>We got this digital camera, and we love it, but it stores short
>movie clips as .MOV files. We feel that more browsers will accept
>mpeg's than mov's (we can't expect everyone to have Quicktime).
>
>Is there a simple software/shareware tool out there that will
>convert .mov to .mpg files.
>
>That would make this camera acceptable to us. It's optical features
>are great, and we'd like to keep it.
>
>thanks
Well, over 50 million copies of QuickTime have been downloaded from
Apple's web site. Anyone who has viewed a movie trailer on the web
already has QuickTime. Another advantage is that you can use a free
or cheap QuickTime editor to make changes to the movies that you
capture. QuickTime Pro for the Mac or Windows is $29 from Apple. For
Macs, iMove 1.0.3 is free.
QuickTime also works great on Windows machines, incase you were wondering.
Just to be clear, it's not a matter of a browser accepting a MPEG
file or a QuickTime movie, since the browser doesn't really care. All
someone would have to do is install the QuickTime player, which is no
big deal. (If someone didn't already have software to play a MPEG,
they'd have to do the same thing anyway.)
In summary, if I were you, I'd just stick with QuickTime, since
that'll make your life easier.
-- Al
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