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03/12/2007 Entry: "Movie conversion for Mac"

Jen wants to have her brother do some movie magic on videos of Molly we've taken. Unfortunately, our camera (Panasonic DMC-FZ5) takes videos in Quicktime .MOV format, and that's a pain in the butt to work with.

So I started hunting some solutions. iMovie on my Mac Mini doesn't do conversions like I'd want, so I hunted further and found ffmpegX. It's based on the very mature ffmpeg project, but definitely separated. It allows drop & click operation for conversion and so far has done very well. Conversion was simple and fast...even on the older, low-powered, G4-CPU Mac Mini I have.

For more information: Flash Movie Conversion for Mac OS X