Convert WMV to QT

[eyelight]

I've bought and downloaded some archive footage for a presentation I want to make on iMovie and iDVD.
Problem. It was only available as a WMV file and I need to convert it to Quicktime to import into iMovie.
Any way to do this without upgrading to Quicktime Pro ? This is probably the only time I'll need to do this in the near future.

If it can't be converted, is there any other way to get it into iMovie ?

So far my best option is a demo version of iView MediaPro, which won't convert WMV to QT, but will allow me to extract every single frame. Then I'd import all the frames into iMovie and somehow get the sound in later. Very labour intensive, and iMovie imports every frame s 3 frames so it needs to be speeded up again.

 

[Loge]

Visualhub any good?

http://www.techspansion.com/visualhub/

If your clips are short, the demo version may work for you, otherwise the full version is fairly cheap.

 

[eyelight]

Thanks for that info. Hadn't heard of Visual Hub. Unfortunately my clip is about 30 seconds too long for the demo.
Strangely the picture is speeded up at about treble speed when converted, but the sound plays at normal speed.

 

[cedric]

Thanks for that info. Hadn't heard of Visual Hub. Unfortunately my clip is about 30 seconds too long for the demo.
Strangely the picture is speeded up at about treble speed when converted, but the sound plays at normal speed.

Try this converter....
http://www.dropdv.com/

It worked on some wmv files I have. Not sure whether it works for wmv3 though.

 

[Mac til death]

http://www.isquint.org/

iSquint has worked wonderfully for me in the past. Maybe his VisualHub software would be worth purchasing... http://www.visualhub.net/

 

[Mechcozmo]

Why not try Flip4Mac? It lets QT read WMV files. Linkety
Then you can look into MPEGStreamclip for conversion. (It reads anything QT can read but exports via a different approach. Works nicely.) Linkety

 

[DougTheImpaler]

Why not try Flip4Mac? It lets QT read WMV files. Linkety
Then you can look into MPEGStreamclip for conversion. (It reads anything QT can read but exports via a different approach. Works nicely.) Linkety

It'll also save WMV movies as QT movies

 

[Mechcozmo]

It'll also save WMV movies as QT movies

...that's why I mentioned them...?

The free version of Flip4Mac only lets QT read WMV files. MPEGStreamclip reads the WMV files (via QT) and then dumps it out to... whatever you want, really.

 

[Sdashiki]

Though I hate WMV, it saves ALOT of space.

WMV file saved as a QT file, without re-encoding but making it now a .mov, increases file size tremendously.

 

[decksnap]

If you have flipformac installed, wouldn't FFMPEGX do the trick? For free?

 

[risc]

If you have flipformac installed, wouldn't FFMPEGX do the trick? For free?

Why do people on this forum keep saying ffmpegX is free? It is a shareware app!

 

[decksnap]

Ummmm... because I didn't even notice. Just downloaded it and used it for what I needed... never noticed that it wasn't free. It certainly didn't restrict me. So, to get the job done, yes, it's free.

 

[Macnoviz]

Though I hate WMV, it saves ALOT of space.

WMV file saved as a QT file, without re-encoding but making it now a .mov, increases file size tremendously.

Yeah, it certainly does, you can say a lot against Microsoft, but they do make good codecs