# Eric at 3/16/2006 6:36 pm cst

This is a great program tha I use in my box of tools. Quick time is crap for people that video edit. But for what reason I do not know it seems that every digital camera maker use it.

# Anonymous at 3/16/2006 7:57 pm cst

You know, FREE was the queue word there.

# Anonymous at 3/16/2006 11:28 pm cst

I was wondering how to convert those crappy quicktime videos my digital camera makes. Thanks for taking the time to post this.

# Anonymous at 3/17/2006 7:14 am cst

two other free programs that can do the exact same thing

-blender 3d (non-linear video editor function) -virtual dub

and i'm sure there's more out there.

# Anonymous at 3/18/2006 12:13 am cst

sooooooooooooo lame and old... eo video is better... go check it out

# Anonymous at 3/18/2006 1:31 pm cst

QuickTime is fine for people who video edit. Unless you're using a badly designed peice of software such as windows movie maker.

# Anonymous at 3/18/2006 1:33 pm cst

Thanks, now I can finaly watch quicktime videos on my Axim.

# nicola at 3/28/2006 8:11 am cst

this really helped i had been wanting to convert my quicktime videos for ages , thanks alot!

# TommyGirl at 3/30/2006 5:06 am cst

This is a great program! Thank you so much for sharing..

# Anonymous at 3/30/2006 4:10 pm cst

said its free , but where is the link to download?

# Matt Deimel at 3/31/2006 1:14 pm cst

There is a hyperlink on the first line under "How To Use The Software", but for extra ease, here it is again:

http://www.radgametools.com/bnkdown.htm

# Sora H. at 4/4/2006 10:24 pm cst

Thank you. I was trying to find a way to convert without paying for Quicktime Pro, and all I was finding were these lame demos. =P This really helped. Thanks.

# Donna L. at 4/8/2006 2:32 pm cst

Hi, I'm having no luck emailing a quicktime video that my digital camera shot at a concert. AOL says the files too big and can't send and Outlook Express keeps dropping the connection when I try to send it. I tried to zip it, but it seemed to stay the same size. Any suggestions?
Do I need to convert it? Great helpful article if you are looking to convert. Thanks for any help you can offer.

# Matt Deimel at 4/17/2006 7:58 am cst

Donna, unfortunately converting your QuickTime video to AVI will make the file larger, and even more difficult to send in an email. QuickTime is a compression for video, it is similar to using a program like WinZip for files.

As for emailing the current video, you have a couple of options. 1) Cut up the video into smaller pieces and send each of those to the recipient (time consuming), or 2) Use a third party to send the file, such as http://www.yousendit.com/ This service will allow you to send 50mB files to someone else for free. I have never used this service, so I can't speak to its usefulness or validity, but I would recommend reading the terms of agreement before trying it. Occasionally a service like this will give themselves rights to use anything you upload for their own purposes.

Hope this helps.

# Andy Atkinson at 4/17/2006 10:02 am cst

You could also try Box.net. Matt Thommes wrote this review of box.net, and concluded that the service is great (and free!). Once you create an account at box.net, you could upload your video and make it a public or private share, depending on your needs.

# Blakes20 at 5/8/2006 8:37 am cst

Totally great tutorial. Nice and easy software. Helped me crank on a project. I appreciate it! Blakes20

# Anonymous at 5/23/2006 3:58 pm cst

Livid's BEU does this and more http://lividinstruments.com/software_batch.php

# Rhett Maxwell at 6/29/2006 11:06 am cst

I've written an automator action that will convert movies to any format that quicktime pro supports. You can use it to create workflows that will convert movies and then email them to someone, or upload them somewhere. It could also be used to convert movies to iPod format.

QuickTime Export Automator Action

# Stacey at 7/20/2006 9:44 pm cst

I tried to convert a 20 minute long video [151MB] and it only converted 1 minute and 7 seconds of it. Is there a file size limit?

# Robin at 7/23/2006 9:52 am cst

Thanks for sharing. I've just downloaded and runned it. It works very good.

# RichK at 7/28/2006 11:42 am cst

This software works great,better than some I paid for previously.Got one problem,how to SPLIT a MOV clip but leave it in QUICK TIME format.

# José Carlos Hernández at 7/28/2006 4:29 pm cst

Great !!, Perfect !!!

Thank you very much....

# Michelle at 7/30/2006 8:55 am cst

Did everything you said to...but it didn't convert it. Not even a little :D I'm probably doing something wrong. I need to convert them to use in Windows Movie Maker and after i convert them they still won't work in it. Any ideas...?

# Anthony at 9/4/2006 1:07 pm cst

Thanks for article to convert Quicktime files. I'm trying to convert a 3GPP file taken on my SonyEricsson phone. It came with Quicktime but have tried RAD Video Tools and it doesn't see this format. Any ideas?

# Mark at 9/5/2006 5:11 am cst

I tried this program several times and all my converted files have choppy sound and video. Anyone else had this issue? Any way around it?

# Matt Deimel at 9/5/2006 8:47 am cst

Can you provide some more information, file size, hardware specs, how long the convert process is taking? This might shed some light on what the issue is. If you want me to try converting the file you can send it to mdeimel@gmail.com (if it's under 10 mb).

# travis at 9/16/2006 1:58 pm cst

same thing happend to me. it only converted 2 seconds of my 1:30 long video. and i've tried everything only to get the same result.

# Dave at 10/10/2006 7:16 pm cst

When I convert the quicktime file to avi, it converts only five minutes of it. The original file is just under 30 mins. Help?

# Bill at 10/21/2006 5:47 pm cst

Since the conversion results in a much larger file, you may be running into a 4GB file size limitation of a FAT32 partition. You could try using an NTFS partition if you're not already.

# Greg at 10/22/2006 2:56 pm cst

I've used the conversion to avi no problems but the file size is huge - when using the compression options you loose quite a bit of quality - I've only tried a few, is there one you would recommend for best quality?

# Anonymous at 10/31/2006 11:09 pm cst

Thank you so much for this post!!! It did everything you said! And best of all it's 100% free! I actually paid for converters to do the same exact thing, and half of them didn't work! THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!

# littlegeekyguy at 11/3/2006 2:43 pm cst

Thanx man, that was just wat i was looking for, awesome. thanx a bunch, i have the same problem with my camera. quicktime sucks!

# midwest at 11/9/2006 4:48 pm cst

after i convert a video from quicktime to avi. The quality of the video is really blurry.? and it is not good enough blur to even use in adobe premiere pro! HELP

# Anonymous at 1/2/2007 5:57 pm cst

Hey Old Lame, What part of free don't you understand?????

# WhiteWolf at 1/3/2007 8:16 am cst

Does anyone know if this can convert real player ? and if not does anyone know a program that can ? can anyone help ?!?

# Matt Deimel at 1/4/2007 8:20 am cst

I did a little searching, and found the following programs. I haven't tried any of them yet, but they all appear to be free, so there's no harm in giving them a shot.

MediaCoder http://mediacoder.sourceforge.net/

MMConvert http://mmconvert.sourceforge.net/en_us/

SUPER (C) http://www.erightsoft.net/SUPER.html#Dnload

Real7ime Converter (R7C) http://r7cproj.euro.ru/indexe.htm

# Anonymous at 1/7/2007 6:25 pm cst

I have tried to convert a quick time file which is about 1 minute and 43 MB. The AVI file after the conversion lags a lot. The audio is quicker than the video and it doesn't play smoothly. Can anyone help?

# Kornelia at 1/8/2007 10:13 am cst

Thanks for the great advice which I found googling desperately for a program that could quickly convert my mov files into avi. It is great!

# Warren at 1/8/2007 8:10 pm cst

Thanks - This program workes well for me and has been easy to use.

# Liane at 1/17/2007 1:38 am cst

THANK YOU SO MUCH !!!! I can't afford to pay for the other converters. My Digital Camara is broke and I can only take movie clips on my cell. they are in Quick time format. Well after 28 years I finally found my sister in germany , we've been sending Pictures and they also send me a video, I wanted to do the same now Thanks to you, I can. I downloaded the clips from my phone provider and after QUICKLY converting them pasted them together in moviemaker. now I can send the file to my sister. Again, Thank you for your awesome gift! Big Hug, Liane

# Marcus T. at 1/25/2007 7:09 pm cst

I converted the files to AVI But it still wont play on Windows Media Player Or Windows Movie Maker because it says the file is not valid or corrupted. How do i get it to work?

# Steve at 1/28/2007 9:53 am cst

Thank you for the suggestion, the program is exactly what I was looking for!

A quicktime video (100Mb) has been converted in few minutes in a DivX video (18Mb) with a single pass high quality setting.

:-)

# Anonymous at 1/31/2007 10:33 am cst

Can I take just the audio part from a .mov file to import into my nano? TIA

# Etripp at 2/20/2007 2:04 pm cst

You can extract the audio from any .mov file by using iMovie - video editing software found on any Mac with OSX. Simply select Advanced -> Extract Audio from the menu in iMovie.

# Marius at 3/9/2007 11:44 am cst

Hello people!

I had a question about this program. I converted a quicktime movie to a .avi. In quicktime format the movie was 84,4 mb after I converted it it was 1,9 gb. Can i change that, to a smaller avi format or is that just the effect of making a .avi

i hope you guys understand me.. :)

Thanks, Marius

# some guy at 3/22/2007 1:10 pm cst

I am using a Toshiba satellite, and when i convert quicktime files to avi the sound qualty is bad... its soooo choppy. what do i do? If I convert it to WMV the sound is perfectly fine, and thats good and all, but ofcourse, theres no picture.

# Peter at 3/29/2007 10:07 am cst

I had a Kodak camera and the conversion was with all kinds of problems. Now I have a Nikon camera, tried again and it is perfect for me.

# Anonymous at 3/29/2007 10:25 pm cst

There is a lot of ignorance on this Forum. QuickTime is not crap, it is the tool many professionals in the movie industry use. Nothing wrong with .avi, but you are being led astray if you think its better just because MicroSoft is trying to control formats to suit themselves.

# Stephy at 4/3/2007 8:39 pm cst

Thank you so much! i had this stupid program that came with my camera that did this but it took hours and im not even joking! i have been wondering if there was a program like this for ages. thanx again!

# Jearl at 4/18/2007 8:19 am cst

I recently bought a Panasonic VDR-D230 video camera. After recording a video onto a mini-DVD, I can get it to play in Windows Media Player, but I can't figure out how to save the file to a place on my computer so that I can download it into the RAD video tool to convert the Quicktime File into AVI for editing. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

# Moni at 4/25/2007 1:15 am cst

This is so nice that you made this possible. Finally I can put some more files at youtube, and get motion and audio in sync. I hate that when you film it's made as a qiucktime file. This program really works! Nice!!!! Thank you!!!!

# Q at 4/30/2007 8:46 am cst

Does exactly what it says on the tin.

thankyou

# Anonymous at 5/10/2007 1:26 pm cst

SUPER is a GREAT program. By far the most powerful transcoder I've used, it just takes some time to find the download link on their site and then to get used to the interface. I've been looking for a Mac OSX build or alternative to this, but cannot find one.

# Mark at 5/11/2007 1:09 pm cst

Downloaded but crashes when I try and convert quicktime files from my Pentax Optio camera, but works fine with files from my old Nikon. Tried various files from the Pentax. Any thoughts?

# Anonymous at 5/12/2007 11:35 pm cst

when i click "convert file" it just quits....anyone know how to solve that?

# Anonymous at 5/22/2007 3:23 pm cst

OMG -same! it keeps quitting on me everytime i click "convert a file". gahhh. what do i do? in dire need of converting the files! =/

# Anonymous at 5/28/2007 4:41 pm cst

Quicktime is used so much because it's good software, easy to program with and very advanced at the same time. Too bad there are too many scrwd people around because to them quicktime is just Quicktime Player. Quicktime is a collection of things such as video and audio standards, applications and formats. A lot of programs use it because they'll never use crappy windows/microsoft things for audio/video. Some of you might say: 'well, then have everyone use open-source audio/video things' however that cannot be used since the license does not allow usage within a closed-source application.

# larissa at 6/1/2007 2:09 pm cst

it converted my MOV to AVI... but as the sound is going at a normal rate, watching the frames are going WAY too slow. Am I converting it wrong, like the wrong Coversion Format or something? thnx

# X at 6/7/2007 8:09 am cst

AVI video lags? Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on January 7, 2007 - 9:25pm. I have tried to convert a quick time file which is about 1 minute and 43 MB. The AVI file after the conversion lags a lot. The audio is quicker than the video and it doesn’t play smoothly. Can anyone help?

I had the same problem as above...and wanted to know if there is a solution!

# Anonymous at 6/19/2007 1:04 am cst

Any idea can this software convert quick time to Mp4? OR any free software that does it?

# jared at 6/19/2007 10:40 pm cst

ok so heres what hapens i convert my quiktime file into an avi but it duzt work or somthing or duz it double its self and go into another file can some 1 help me?

# Anonymous at 6/20/2007 10:12 am cst

I have the same problem

# Gary at 6/20/2007 12:11 pm cst

Does anyone know any software that can convert avi to mp4 or quick time straight to mp4?

# Anonymous at 6/23/2007 11:00 am cst

what i did was change the format to Xvi DMPEG-4 Codec and everything worked fine afterwards!

# Denis at 7/7/2007 11:01 pm cst

Great program - very powerfull and though very fast! I was fascinated how fast Bink Video converted my .mov's to .avi - probably 2-3 times faster than other tools I tried and it is free! I personally want to donate them.

# RONALD MOUNT at 10/9/2007 5:38 pm cst

I have tried it but the file size is huge after conversion and the computer cannot handle it. Jerks and out of sync. However I read somewhere that if you just change the end of the filename .mov to .mpg or .avi it will play perfectly but for some reason it cannot be loaded into the editor. I do it now because it takes less than a second [clips]to start instead of 3 seconds when showing with gphotoshow, also, when labeled as mpg or avi the thumbs show unlike the move files which don't [in windows explorer] The mov files tend to hesitate on flowing water with my machine and I have heard that the quicktime codec uses a lot of processor time and causes this effect.

# Matt at 10/27/2007 1:48 pm cst

Well, it did convert to AVI but screwed with the Horizontal Hold and the bottom half was purple.. Still experimenting with some of the different types of compressions(not sure if thats the word I mean) but if anyone knows a sure way to convert 946mb (16:12) .MOV on this program (with certainty) let me know please

# telstar at 10/29/2007 6:26 am cst

Use Super (http://www.erightsoft.com/SUPER.html). Amazing that program - and free!

# jiboner akibuki at 11/12/2007 12:48 am cst

Nice one !! But where can I download the software from??. I wish to publish my digital camera videos on my blog.

# anyone at 12/5/2007 4:05 pm cst

Just tried to convert a short .mov to .avi and it doesn't work. The video is in slow motion and about 3 sec long, the original is about 2 mins in length. I used a Kodak Z812 camera. It seems this program works for a lot you, but it didn't go as smoothly for me, any ideas out there as to why?

# person at 12/5/2007 4:30 pm cst

Actually, forget this software, I found a much better one called Prism, and it worked flawlessly, where as this program does not, too finicky.