Converting Video Formats When making movies with a MAC or Windows system there are times when you find that one system outshines the other or there are effects that you want to include in your movie that must be implemented on the other platform. You may need to convert video formats. Here is fairly comprehensive list of tools for converting video formats. The links to the author's web sites will get you to even more collections of tools.

Conversion Chart

Tools and Where to find them

Photo to Movie	Fantastic tool for making slide shows. It takes the Burns effect to a new level. Simple to use graphical user interface. Mac version is very stabile. The new Windows version is in beta and has all the features of the Mac Version. Excellent tool for making home slides shows and work related photo presentations. Creates both Quicktime mov files as well as avi. Can import Mp3s for sound. Mac version is integrated with iPhoto.	Website
TRMOOV	A Microsoft Windows Windows95/98/XP application for converting back and forth between the QuickTime MOV file format and AVI file format without recompression.	by Website
VCDCutter	You can play AVI, DAT, M1V, MOV, MPG, MPV, and VCD file formats; extract specific frames from MPG and VCD files (system stream, or video and audio streams separately); cut M1V (video only) and MP3 (audio only) clips to disk; and import and export playlists and cliplists.	Website
StreamBox VCR	sbvcr.zip, vcr.exe, Can be used to save streaming media to hard disk.  Save .asx .asf .wmf .rm and .ram files to disk.	Website
SmartVid	a codec independent, bi-directional video file converter which converts between AVI and Quicktime MOV formats. Run from the DOC command line.	Website
avi2vcd	(avi2mpg) is a Windows based program to encode AVI files to Video CD compliant mpeg. The resulting VideoCD can be played on VideoCD players, and many DVD players.	Website
TMPGEnc	converts AVI to MPEG 1 and 2	Website
DVD2AVI	Free MPEG-2 decoder, works with Adobe Premiere DVD2VDC 2.2	Website