OK, I have this little Pentax camera that takes great pictures and AVI format movies. I have a couple of these movies that I want to edit together for web distribution. Seems like I should be able to edit these on the handy video-editing software that came with my Mac. I know Quicktime doesn’t really play AVI, but I figured I’d be able to find some kind of importer or converter. Nope. Or some free converter for my Windows, so that I can turn them into
.mov files there. Nope again.

Anybody know a good way to turn .avi files into .mov files? I’ll settle for .mpeg.

I can’t get anywhere with a Google search on this, because all the video software I can find is mostly hideously bad shareware that leaves some kind of watermark until you suck it up and pay $30 (which, i guess is an option, but I can’t quite bring myself to do this yet, because I’m still resentful that both Apple and Microsoft have made this so hard; especially Apple for making me think the Japanese girl would just talk to me).

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