Upload a MOV file and download a AVI. Free, no account, no watermark, and nothing is kept on our server.
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Feeding Mac footage into older Windows software.
MOV is the QuickTime container, and MP4 was built directly on top of it, which is why the two are so alike. It is the native output of iPhones and Final Cut, and it can carry professional codecs such as ProRes that MP4 files rarely hold.
AVI dates from Windows 3.1 and shows its age. It has no proper support for modern subtitles, variable frame rates or efficient codecs, so the same footage takes far more space than in MP4. It survives because some editing suites, camcorders and TV sets still expect it.
| MOV | AVI | |
|---|---|---|
| Released | 1991 | 1992 |
| Developed by | Apple | Microsoft |
| Type | Container | Container |
| Usual codecs | H.264, ProRes, HEVC | Almost anything, often old |
| File size | Large with professional codecs | Large |
| Best suited to | Editing on a Mac | Old software and hardware |
| Support | Good, best on Apple | Wide but dated |
The video is decoded and re-encoded, which costs a small amount of quality - invisible once, noticeable if you convert the same clip back and forth repeatedly. Resolution, frame rate and aspect ratio are preserved. Going from MOV to AVI changes the wrapper and the codec, not the footage itself.
Video takes real time. A short clip finishes in under a minute, while a full-length film can take considerably longer, because every frame has to be decoded and encoded again. Uploading a large file is usually the slowest part of all.
Your file is uploaded to our server because the conversion runs there. A cleanup task runs every hour and deletes anything older than an hour, so nothing you upload survives more than about two hours. We do not open your files, we do not keep copies, and no account is needed to use the converter.