Cannot convert .mov files

altrev · Post by **altrev** » Sun Dec 12, 2004 7:23 am

I bought the Disc Creator version of DVDMF3, and built a combination slide/video show. The program kept crashing and/or stalling on me each time that I attempted to burn a disc and, by removing one thing at a time, I finally figured out that it doesn't like the .mov format of the videos from my camera (Olympus C-8080). Can anyone help me?

htchien · Post by **htchien** » Mon Dec 13, 2004 3:21 am

Some digital camera will not generate standard MOV file so this problem will happen. You will need to use some third party tool to convert the MOV file to some standard MOV file so Ulead can use it.

Hope this helps.

Rgrds,
H.T.

altrev · Post by **altrev** » Tue Dec 14, 2004 9:29 am

Why would I have to buy a separate converter when DVD Picture Show 3 had no problems with the same (.mov) files?

AW

htchien · Post by **htchien** » Tue Dec 14, 2004 10:20 am

Some digital cameras do not follow the Apple standard so the MOV file generated by these DCs can only be viewed but will have problems when you edit them or use them in some video editors or DVD authoring tools. Ulead follows Apple standard so it will need you to find some other tools to do that.

As I know Ulead has awared of this problem and it should be fixed in the future version of Ulead products.

You can find some video converters in the following links, some of them are free to use.

http://www.tomdownload.com/multimedia_d ... verter.htm
http://www.videohelp.com/tools?convert=MOV%20to%20AVI

Hope this helps.

Rgrds,
H.T.

altrev · Post by **altrev** » Tue Dec 14, 2004 1:31 pm

Sorry H.T., but I think you may have missed the point that I was trying to make in my second string. I bought DVD Picture Show 3, and it converts the .mov files from my camera just fine. This proves that ULead has the ability. I bought DVD MF3 thinking that it would be at least as functional, with more options, but apparently it isn't.

AW

htchien · Post by **htchien** » Tue Dec 14, 2004 4:21 pm

Ulead DVD PictureShow 3 is newer than Ulead DVD MovieFactory 3, I think the problem is fixed in DVDPS3. For DMF, you can try to copy the uvQT.vio file from the "[DVDPS install path]/vio" folder to the "[DVDMF install path]/vio" folder and then start DVDMF to see if it can import the MOV file successfully.

Before you copy the uvQT.vio, please remember to rename the uvQT.vio file in DVDMF to some other file name for backup.

Hope this helps.

H.T.