Quicktime Codes

[LazerFazer]

Hi all,

 

Not sure where to post this, so I'm just putting it here. I was wondering what codecs quicktime uses natively? The reason is, I need to take some video from home, and I want to compress it with a codec thats supported by quicktime at school. The school's use iMacs, and I don't have access to a PC there... also, I would like the size to be as small as possible.

 

Cheers,

LazerFazer

[Cap'n Refsmmat]

.mov is QuickTime's native format, I believe.

[LazerFazer]

Thanks. True, the format is .mov, but what video codec is it using? I read somewhere it was MPEG4, but when searching on google I also found references to MSMPEG4... are any of these accurate? Also, how can I convert a video file into the format supported by quicktime?

 

LazerFazer

[bascule]

QuickTime is a container format for a whole slew of potential video codecs.

 

.mov files typically use the Sorensen codec. There are also MPEG-4 files named .m4v, and MPEG-4 AVC (H.264) files called .mp4

[LazerFazer]

Cheers for the replies. In the end I just got Quicktime 7 pro and converted my videos using the sorenson3 codec. It's good enough for my purposes.

 

cheers,

LF