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