My Canon PowerShot camera shoots video in .MOV format. I want to edit the videos in Windows Movie Maker, but it won’t work with .MOV format. How do I convert the video? What format is best to convert it to? AVI? WMV?
I googled this and spent a while reading up but could not find anything I am confident in. I did finally download Hamster free video converter but am not sure it’s any good. I am trying it out now.
Also are there any other video editing tools that are better than Movie Maker, but the right price (read: free)?
It’s really best to stick to the same format. If you convert you are going to be compressing again and losing some quality. Sometimes not a lot but it’s advisable to keep the same format if at all possible.