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Pazera Free MOV to AVI Converter 1.2

January 30, 2010 /

Ewald wants to be able to make video/photo montages of his life at la Boucoule. While there last month, I helped him along with Windows Movie Maker (WMM) a bit. WMM doesn’t like Quicktime video’s (as outputted by his camera), so I found a simple Windows program that wraps around ffmpeg to convert these movies to AVI format: Pazera Free MOV to AVI Converter 1.2.

Pazera Free MOV to AVI Converter 1.2

To make the generated AVI work in WMM, a few settings need to be changed away from the default. For this purpose I added a custom profile. Here’s the INI file, “00 - Geschikt voor Windows Movie Maker.ini”: 

[MAIN]
AppName=Pazera Free MOV to AVI Converter
AppVer=1.2
OutputFormat=AVI
[AVI]
VideoCodec=1
VideoBitrate=Auto
VideoFPS=Auto
Video2Pass=0
DoNotCopyVideo=0
[MPG]
VideoFormat=0
MPEGVersion=0
VideoBitrate=Auto
VideoFPS=Auto
Video2Pass=0
DoNotCopyVideo=0
[AUDIO]
AudioCodec=0
AudioBitrate=Auto
AudioSampling=Auto
AudioChannels=0
DoNotCopyAudio=0
Volume=100
[ADVANCED]
Resolution=0
ResWidth=320
ResHeight=240
ForceVideoTag=0
VideoTag=XVID
CropTop=0
CropBottom=0
CropLeft=0
CropRight=0
AdditionalParams=

Now, Ewald will only need to select the right profile if he wants to prepare his Quicktime movies for editing with Windows Movie Maker:

Profile selection in Pazera MOV to AVI Converter

Create DVDs from any random movie format on Windows

December 30, 2009 /

Ewald wanted to be able to create DVDs from the Quicktime movies exported by his digital camera. As a result of being away from my familiar Linux tools, I had to find something that´d work on Windows XP.

First, I tried MediaCoder, a Windows front-end (done in XUL) for mencoder, ffmpeg and more of these familiar tools. It was flexible enough, but quite awkward from an end-user perspective and also frustrating if you’re used to calling the supporting commands directly from the CLI.

Luckily, I stumbled upon ConvertXtoDVD, a commercial Windows-only program which proved to be very user-friendly and intuitive without requiring the user to understand the ins and outs of each an every supported media format.

At 40 euro it’s a bit expensive if, like me, you’re used to staying at the free software side of things, but I’d daresay it’s actually worth the money if you’re not an obsessive geek with obscene amounts of free time on his hands.

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