Re: quicktime - Windows movie maker

de Nottnick 05/20/2006 12:25

"3c273" <nospam@nospam.com> wrote in message
news:e4lcsc0pb6@enews1.newsguy.com...
> You can convert them to AVI, MPEG or whatever with MediaCoder.
> http://mediacoder.sourceforge.net/
> Louis
>
> "Nottnick" <nmmnews@bellows.org.uk> wrote in message
> news:pcudnVlVav2Qi_PZRVnyig@bt.com...
>> Just posted this on 24 hr helpdesk - it was suggested I try
>> here.....................................
>>
>> Ok Here's my problem.
>>
>> I'm a teacher (Nottingham UK) and have just taken a group af 11 year olds
>> away for an adventure week.
>> My Olympus (7070) still camera also takes great video However, it is in
>> Quicktime format. I have loads of shots.
>>
>> Now, I really want to let the children have a go at making a longer movie
>> from these clips (each is 20 seconds or so on average) ie. the chance to
>> link short video clips and add music + transition effects + a title and
>> credits.
>>
>> Winows Movie Maker would be ideal as it is free and it is already
> installed
>> on the school computers and I know how to use it (of course we don't have
>> spare money st school and I want to get started on Monday while they are
>> still keen so don't have time to go through educational suppliers etc.) .
>>
>> Trouble is, it won't take quicktime and I only found out this evening.
>>
>> Does anyone have a suggestion.
>>
>> Thanks
>>

I have downloaded this but have no idea how to use it and can't find any
help pages.
When I load in the .MOV file whatever output I select I get an error when I
try to convert and I have no idea why.
Any suggestions?

Thanks

Nick