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Can you convert mov to mp4 on Windows 11?
I’ve been in the same boat with those pesky MOV files from my iPhone—they just don’t play nice on Windows apps sometimes! I ended up using this tutorial (https://www.uumeo.com/mov-to-mp4), and it made my life so much easier. It’s straightforward, no ads or watermarks, and the quality is spot on—I’ve been using it ever since!
Using the command prompt with fffmpeg to convert MOV to MP4 is actually pretty cool, but it's a bit of a "geek trick". The steps are as follows:
- First download fffmpeg from the Internet and unzip it to a folder on your computer, such as C:\fffmpeg\bin.
- Copy the MOV file to the same folder, or remember the path of the MOV file.
- Open the command prompt (Win+R, enter cmd, and then press Enter).
- Enter the path, for example: cd C:\fffmpeg\bin, and then type the command:
fffmpeg-i input.mov output.mp4
(Replace "input.mov" with your video file name).
After a few seconds or minutes, the converted MP4 file will be generated in the folder.
The downside is that you need to download fffmpeg yourself. Although it is free, it may be a bit discouraging for people who are not familiar with command line operations. In addition, fffmpeg has many commands. If you need to adjust parameters such as resolution and bit rate, you have to look up the instructions yourself, which is a bit complicated.