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How to Convert WMV to MOV on Mac OS X

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  bjepson's Photo Submitted by bjepson O'Reilly Editor Answers Early Bird Foo Peacock
Posted Apr 02 2010 09:55 AM
One of my colleagues asked me for some help converting a video. He had a WMV file of a recent Ignite Boston, but every time he imported it into iMovie, it got a watermark from the free version of Flip4Mac that's available from Microsoft. I know it's only $29.99 to get a version of Flip4Mac that will not put the watermark on it, but I knew there had to be another way.

If you Google for "convert wmv to mov", you find a lot of products, some free, some paid, that will do the job. I dug past the first page of results, and found that ffmpeg will do the trick at the Terminal window, without having to fuss around with command line switches.

I have MacPorts installed on my Mac, so all I needed to do was open a Terminal window and type the following (I had to provide my password when prompted):

sudo port install ffmpeg


That installed ffmpeg and all its prerequisites, then I was able to convert the file with a simple command:

ffmpeg -i ignite7.wmv ignite7.mov


Five minutes later, it had converted the 276M .wmv file (Windows Media Video 8/Audio 9) to a 252M .mov (MPEG-4 Video and AAC audio).
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  johnshevi's Photo Alternative solution by johnshevi
Posted Dec 24 2012 08:26 PM
yes, mpeg streamclip is free and reads/converts to a pretty wide range of formats.

I was using video converter a couple of years ago

http://www.ilikemall...to-mov-mac.html

works well on my iMac.
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  xw51770063's Photo Alternative solution by xw51770063
Posted Jan 08 2013 01:45 AM
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  SamuelGreen's Photo Alternative solution by SamuelGreen
Posted Jan 09 2013 02:09 AM
Have you considered without converting you also could enjoy your movie? Let me tell you: all you need is a multifunctional Mac Media Player which supports both MOV and WMV. It is very hard to pick up a better media player for Mac now, while Macgo Mac Media Player is a outstanding one of them. Totally free to download and to use if you like.
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  kelly056's Photo Alternative solution by kelly056
Posted Feb 01 2013 07:10 PM
Download Pavtube HD Video Converter. This software can convert HM700 XDCAM MOV files to WMV, and then you can use HM700 videos in Sony Vegas with WMV format.
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  butterfly.Simo's Photo Alternative solution by butterfly.Simo
Posted Mar 13 2013 07:22 PM
That's quite smart idea, and works for the tech guru i think. while as for normal people like me, i would like to try something easier, like some 3rd party converters, easy to handle and also works great. I found a video tutorial here and hope it helps people like me.

https://www.youtube....h?v=rQSxBlCW35o

this is a Windows version tutorial, and i believe that's also available for Mac version.

 
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