.MOV files... (Yet another "how do I convert" thread)

[insanarchist]

My band had a guy edit together some video/audio for us, and he gave us uncompressed .MOV files to work with. We'll be putting these videos onto a CD we have coming out, so we'll (obviously) need to compress them, as they're currently 800 Mb each. While I know there are tons of programs out there to re-encode (correct term?) & re-size .avi and .mpg files, I haven't had a lot of luck finding programs that do the same with .mov files. I'm not sure if the big ones do it (virtualDub I think it's called?) or if I need some stupid mac program or what.

I'm kind of a n00b when it comes to video, so if I said anything that doesn't make any sense or is just plain stupid, please cut me some slack: I want to learn

 

[Langford]

MOV? Yuck, Quicktime.
Virtualdub mainly works with AVi files. It would be funny, but it might be possible to do the job with VirtualdubMod. Your best bet might be to convert them to uncompressed (RGB and PCM) AVI files with RAD Video Tools, then edit them in virtualdub.
http://www.radgametools.com/bnkdown.htm
http://virtualdub.org
http://virtualdubmod.sourceforge.net/

 

[insanarchist]

Yeah I know, he's just a fan/kid and I didn't want to explode his brain asking for something divx encoded or anything: he is a mac guy afterall

Thanks for the info though, I'll check it out!