Open Source Saves the Day
I found it! I found it! I found it!
One of the things I dislike (very much) about my Nikon Coolpix camera is that it only records video in “MOV” format instead of a much more neutral AVI. Sorry, but Quicktime on Windows is a total desktop kludge. This morning, as I was flipping through my favorite feeds, I discovered MP4Cam2AVI:
MP4Cam2AVI is a .MP4|.MOV to .AVI convert & join tool for digital MPEG-4 camcorders, such as Sanyo Xacti C1/C4, Pentax Optio MX/MX4, Sony DSC-M1, Olympus C770 Movie, Samsung V40/50/70 etc. Also it supports MJPEG .MOV files from digital photo cameras.
Yes! Yes! Yes! Thank you, graywolf2004! It works like a charm! I can't use enough exclamation marks! I'm getting way too excited over this! Open source wins again!
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9 Comments
Mitch Keeler
March 28th, 2005
at 1:07pm
I'm going to have to try this out with my Coolpix camera! I agree the .mov recording is just about one of the only anoying things I can find about my little Nikon. :)
AdamR
March 29th, 2005
at 1:36am
Gotta love OSS. I just recently starting using this, and it's been a great tool.
Angela
April 7th, 2005
at 11:10am
Open Source rocks! Thanks for posting this :-)
-angela
Anonymous
June 13th, 2005
at 3:58am
thanks a ton!! chris… i've been trying just about all the other tools available on net… just when i was loosing all hopes… i found ur blog!!..
thanks again… it works like charm:-))
Anonymous
June 13th, 2005
at 3:59am
thanks a ton!! chris… i've been trying just about all the other tools available on net… just when i was loosing all hopes… i found ur blog!!..
thanks again… it works like charm:-))
manikantan r
trekkerboy@gamil.com
Anonymous
June 13th, 2005
at 4:00am
thanks a ton!! chris… i own a coolpix n i've been trying just about all the other tools available on net to convert .mov to .avi … just when i was loosing all hopes… i found ur blog!!..
thanks again… it works like charm:-))
manikantan r
trekkerboy@gmail.com
Tomaz
April 15th, 2007
at 12:38pm
Dude thank you a 1000 times!
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April 15th, 2007
at 12:53pm
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samohtstrikes
February 9th, 2008
at 10:15am
this works fairly well, but im still having issues with it. for some reason i cant import the clips into windows movie maker. my aiptek hd camcorder records to .mov which isnt accepted by wmm. is there a codec that will enable moviemaker to accept .mov?