Anyone know how to convert Quick Time videos to Windows Media?

[HardyGirl]

Hi guys....

I have another technical question. I used my camera to make a video for the first time, (actually shot the video as opposed to a photo slideshow), and I didn't know that my camera shot Quick Time. YouTube doesn't support Quick Time. Any suggestions?

(and please keep it simple, if possible.)

[mazinz]

Are you sure about that? I have upped some quicktime clips before in the past on youtube with no problem.

[johnmiic]

I thought QT files were also basically MOV. files and pretty much universally playable?

[HardyGirl]

When I tried to load it, I got the "we don't normally accept this format, but we'll try and process it anyway". Now that was almost an hour and a half ago, and it's STILL processing!!

[Johnny]

There is a great and free program that converts
any video format to any other video format.

I use it all the time and it works great.

It is called Format Factory.

http://download.cnet.com/FormatFacto...-10968547.html

I hope this helps.

[megoapesnut]

Quicktime Pro will convert to WMV as well. But it's not free, like Format Factory

[SeattleEd]

YouTube does support .mov files and most all codecs. I would recommend sticking with QT and not transcode to WMV due to the poor compression algorithms. Plus when it gets re-compressed on youtube's side, it doesn't come out as clear as your source file.
Do you know what codec it creates? You can see it if you open up the file in properties and find the info.
If it's a DV it should take it. I upload ProRes files at 720x480 SD with no issues.
If you want to transcode to a better format, make an MP4 with the H264 codec or to .AVI if you favor Window Platform. There are free programs that do it such as MPEG STREAMCLIP and VLC.

[HardyGirl]

YouTube does support .mov files and most all codecs. I would recommend sticking with QT and not transcode to WMV due to the poor compression algorithms. Plus when it gets re-compressed on youtube's side, it doesn't come out as clear as your source file.
Do you know what codec it creates? You can see it if you open up the file in properties and find the info.
It's its a DV it should take it. I upload ProRes files at 720x480 SD with no issues.
If you want to transcode to a better format, make an MP4 with the H264 codec or to .AVI if you favor Window Platform. There are free programs that do it such as MPEG STREAMCLIP and VLC.

Uh...remember when I said keep it simple? You're speaking Greek! I wanna load this on YouTube, but I refuse to go through all this trouble just for a video. I've said it before and I'll say it again, people make things harder than they have to be. Having a camera that makes videos that aren't compatible w/ widely used systems doesn't make any sense. If the photos can be loaded in a WMV format, than the videos should too. Making them 2 different formats is just stupid. Thanks for you help guys, but I think I'll just stick to Webcam and photoshoots.

[Mego Magyar]

I had trouble uploading photos once to Facebook, it took forever. I'd stop the current upload, restart your computer and try again and see what happens.

My 2 cents.

[megoapesnut]

I upload QT movies to YouTube often. Not sure why yours won't upload, unless the camera uses some special proprietary flavor of QT.

[SeattleEd]

From the YouTube site:

Here is a list of some well-known formats that YouTube supports:

WebM files - Vp8 video codec and Vorbis Audio codecs
.MPEG4, 3GPP and MOV files - Typically supporting h264, mpeg4 video codecs, and AAC audio codec
.AVI - Many cameras output this format - typically the video codec is MJPEG and audio is PCM
.MPEGPS - Typically supporting MPEG2 video codec and MP2 audio
.WMV
.FLV - Adobe-FLV1 video codec, MP3 audio


Here is a list of some common formats that YouTube does NOT support:

Project files: No project files of any kind are acceptable. It is generally very easy to convert project files to a supported format.
MSWMM and WLMP: You can easily convert these project files to .WMV.
Audio files (MP3, WAV, etc.) and Image files (JPG, PNG, etc.): Convert these files to video slideshows.

Tips and notes:

We prefer that you upload your video in the original format and in the highest quality possible.
We prefer de-interlaced files.
Audio and video lengths should be the same and audio should begin at the same time as the video.
If you continue to experience Audio/Video issues with your upload, contact us and we may be able to help.