AVI to MOV
Footage from 1992, in a box a Mac reads
What the conversion sites charge
| Convertio | upload the whole file, with a daily cap | |
| Zamzar | upload the whole file, with a size cap | |
| CloudConvert | upload the whole file, priced per minute | |
| PixPunk | Free | no upload, no account, no daily cap |
AVI is older than most of the software that will not open it, and old enough that what is inside one is genuinely unpredictable. That is what makes this the least certain conversion on this site.
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Where your AVI came from
A camcorder, a DV tape capture, a CD from a wedding photographer, or a folder that has been copied between three computers since 2004. AVI has been around since 1992 and it shows.
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What is actually inside it
That is the honest problem. AVI is a box that will hold almost any codec, including several that no current browser can decode. A recent AVI usually converts; a genuinely old one may not open at all, and the page will tell you rather than pretend.
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Why MOV
Because a Mac is asking, and because AVI is one of the formats macOS quietly stopped caring about. Anything you want to edit, trim or hand to iMovie needs to leave the AVI first.
FAQ
- How do I convert AVI to MOV?
- Drop the file on this page and press the button. It runs in your browser, so there is no upload, no account and no daily limit.
- Why does nothing open my AVI?
- Because AVI is a box, not a format, and what is in it may be a codec from an era that current software has dropped. The file being old is not the problem; what is inside it being old is.
- What if this page cannot read it either?
- Then it says so rather than handing you a broken file. The browser decodes a fixed set of codecs, and a genuinely old AVI can fall outside it. That is the case where a desktop tool is the honest answer.
- Does the quality drop?
- A little, once, because the picture usually has to be re-encoded rather than moved across. Given the source, that loss is almost always smaller than what the original recording already threw away.
- Is there a size limit?
- 500 MB, which is a limit of doing this in a tab rather than a policy. Old AVI files are often large for their length, so this is the page where you are most likely to meet it.
- Is the file uploaded?
- No. The video is opened and written back out in the page. No request carries it anywhere, which the network panel will show you while it runs.