QuickTime Movie Editor

[eskimo2]

My Nikon Coolpix 8400 arrived today.  One of its selling points to me is its movie modes.  Most MiniDV camcorders only take 320x240 resolution movies.  My new Nikon takes 640x480 resolution movies at 30fps (as do many other still cameras).  The quality is fantastic; they are about 1 MB a second though.  

Anyway, when I downloaded the clips off the camera I saw that they were QuickTime.  My first thought was, “Oh crap, that’s right.  It takes movies in QuickTime.”  I use a freeware/GNU program to view QuickTime flicks so that it doesn’t screw with the rest of my system.  After playing around with it though, I’m pretty impressed.  I’d even dare say that it’s better than WMP format.  My problem is that I use Windows Movie Maker to edit clips.  Now I need something else because WMM doesn’t recognize the enemy.

So, if you’ve ever edited QuickTime movies, please make recommendations (or bash) whatever program you have used.  I generally choose free programs over fancy ones.  All I need is basic length and clip editing, titles and transitions.

Thanks,

eskimo

[Vulcan]

Originally posted by eskimo2
My Nikon Coolpix 8400 arrived today.  One of its selling points to me is its movie modes.  Most MiniDV camcorders only take 320x240 resolution movies.  My new Nikon takes 640x480 resolution movies at 30fps (as do many other still cameras).  The quality is fantastic; they are about 1 MB a second though.

My new casio does the same, cept they are MJPEG in AVI format. The 640x480 movies seem to be a bit jerky in some parts, particularly with a lot of motion so don't biff out your camcorder yet.

[MrRiplEy[H]]

Vulcan if they're jerky you're probably not filming in 30fps. I agree that quicktime can have nice quality, but I hate the format because of the player. It's so lame that they bundled Itunes with QT downloads now.. It's also lame that once you install QT it hogs file associations automatically.

I use Mediaplayer classic and realplayer/quicktime alternatives.