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can't convert an MP4 file... heeeeelp
dear lovely, techhy fellow Word-bloggers
Any recommendations for a good free (or very cheap) MP4 -> AVI conversion package? I recorded a 30 second video (9MB) on my phone (MP4 format), and have since transferred it to my PC.
But I need to rotate it 90 degrees (oops, filmed it wrongly). Windows Movie Maker can do this, but won't work with MP4.
So I need to convert it into another format (prob .avi), then rotate it in WMM.
Can you recommend a decent freeware conversion package? I've tried googling, but not much luck. AVS do some likely looking software, but the trial version leaves a watermark on the output file.
I'd like to stress that I usually pay for software, but given that this something I need to do as a one-off, I don't really want to pay AVI £30 to do it!
Ideally I'd like to find some completely freeware, and then make a paypal donation to the developer for the one use.
If anyone could help, I'd be rather grateful...
Hannah xxx
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I'm not sure if it'll do exactly what you're looking for....
But MPEG Streamclip is a fairly decent free application for converting media files from one format to another.
http://www.squared5.com/
I've only used the Mac version, mind, so I've no idea if the PC version is as highly featured. The version number of the PC version is several ones behind that of the Mac version, you see.
Try this, it used to be free
Hannah, this used to have 30 day trial and I have used it to convert stuff before. It was last summer that I last used it, however.
http://www.erightsoft.com/SUPER.html
Cor, you certainly are lovely people
Thanks so much, JQW and Paddy!
I gave SUPER a try... looks pretty marvellous but couldn't quite get my head around it.. it only converted the first frame of my mp4 and no more (I'm convinced that's my fault rather than the program's, I will have another play with it tomorrow).
Also tried Streamclip, which has done the job rather marvellously. I see it has a rotate function built in - brilliant - although when I tried to rotate my 4:3 clip, it rotates the actual clip but not the frame itself (if you know what I mean), so the top edges are cropped but the side edges have black stripes. Again, I blame me and not the technology.
(when I did a straight convert from streamclip to avi without rotation, Windows Movie Make did the rotation but stretched the image... and unfortunately the version I've got won't allow you to customise the pixel aspect ratio)
but it doesn't really matter as I've got a right-way-up AVI (with the black stripes, but that's fine to be getting on with) of my 9 month daughter blowing raspberries! hooray!!
Thank you so so much to you both. Ever so appreciated.
Hannah xxx
my recommendation : WinFF
i recently used WinFF for converting an AVI to a format for my Creative Zen - all was perfectly smoothly, and very easy to use - and free.
http://winff.org/html_new/
m.e
oooh
thanks!
I'll check that out tomorrow (must get off the computer right now and go to bed, should have been asleep aaaaages ago!)
I use...
...FormatFactory whenever I need to convert something - and it's free.