MOV to MPEG or AVI from digital camera video

[mtsalmela80]

Hello,

I am using a Kodak digital camera to take video, and it comes out as MOV files, which are rather large. They look fine for the camera, but I want to compress/convert them down to MPEG or AVI so they are smaller and easier to upload to youtube. Everytime I try, the damn video gets a lot darker! I have tried Magic Video Converter and Xillisoft with the same result. On Magic Video Converter there is a slider for video quality that I turned up all the way to no avail.

I tried this other program that has filters, but when you run a filter and re-encode it, the general video quality goes way down. Is there such a converter that will not sacrifice the lighting when going from MOV to any other format?

Thanks,

[poisondeathray]

Try avidemux (free)

You shouldn't need to resort to filters, but it has filters that actually work

Another free option would be virtualdub, with the quicktime plugin