Lost Video Island

[littleton_pace]

hey all

me again with yet another issue. my camera takes video footage and when i load it onto my computer its in quicktime format; for those who dont know quicktime vids are unusable in vegas and WMM, does anyone know how i can get them to work in these programs? is there a good/easy/free file converter I can get so i can make vids of me and my friends?

hoping someone can help me :D

kat
xox
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[Fan4Lost]

yeah kat I use Super. It's free and can convert any video file into any format you want.

Scrool all the way down to the bottom of that page and there's a download link:


Hope that helps!

[littleton_pace]

ok, seems to have downloaded fine but i cant seem to use figure it out, can you tell me how to actually convert the file? :D:D
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[Aislynn]

littleton_pace wrote:

my camera takes video footage and when i load it onto my computer its in quicktime format; for those who dont know quicktime vids are unusable in vegas and WMM, does anyone know how i can get them to work in these programs?

As far as I know, Vegas will import .MOV files... I converted a bunch of camera .MOV files into .WMV for a friend a while ago so she could use them in WMM. Unless this Quicktime isn't .MOV, of course. *large over Ais's head*

[littleton_pace]

how do i know if they're .MOV? all i know is that they wont load into vegas
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[Fan4Lost]

are you Mac or PC Kat?

[littleton_pace]

PC laptop, im pretty sure.
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[Fan4Lost]

find the file on my computer or windows explorer and then right click it and choose Properties:



This will tell you what the file type is:


hope that helps! ^_^

[Aislynn]

littleton_pace wrote:

how do i know if they're .MOV? all i know is that they wont load into vegas

Ah, bummer! Sorry that they won't load into Vegas! Hope you're able to get Steph's converter thingie to work!

As for reading the extension on them... While you're in the folder where the files are at (in other words, when you can see all of their names), you can go up to Tools - Folder Options - View then take the check off of "Hide extensions for known file types." Click okay, then look at the names of the files and you'll see their extensions. If it's Quicktime, it should end in .mov. I recommend going back and putting the check back ON "Hide extensions for known file types" as soon as you're done because if you don't and you're used to saving Word documents or whatever with just the name of the file and not adding .doc at the end, it'll be an unusable file! (Ask me how I know that... Ahem. )

But that will work to give you a quick peek at the file extension if you ever need it!