I don’t know about all of you, but I have had a few videos that I have wanted to change from a Quicktime .MOV to a normal .AVI I can compress and whatnot.

I have thought about paying Apple for this conversion right, but decided not to, and just left my videos alone, bu now I have an option thanks to RAD Video Tools.

I don’t know if this is an old thing or a new one, and frankly, I don’t care. I think its a great tool, and I am pretty happy I came across it.

After taking some short video clips with my Nikon Coolpix 4300 I wanted to splice them together into a small production. The problem was that my camera only records in QuickTime, and my editing software doesn’t accept that format. So the seemingly simple task of converting the .MOV files to a workable format (such as .AVI) began. I quickly learned that most conversion programs are not free, and the demos typically have a banner at the bottom of the converted file advertising their product. When all seemed lost I happened to stumble across RAD Video Tools, a piece of software that makes the conversion of QuickTime videos to AVI fast and easy. The best part is, it’s free!

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