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Conversion .mov en .avi (icod and apco)

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Jiouz Posted messages 43 Status Membre -  
pourquoipas142 Posted messages 32 Registration date   Status Membre Last intervention   -
Hello,

I am currently converting a whole bunch of old videos digitized from "Super 8" by a professional who provided us with .mov files at 1920x1080. The problem is, a video that lasts, for example, 3 minutes is 800 MB for a low quality due to the digitization of old films. So, I am converting them to .avi at 1080x720 (it takes a while) with Any Video Converter Professional, and I am reducing the file size by 10.

My issue is that everything works marvelously for files encoded in apco, but those encoded in icod, there’s no way... they are all family home movies, digitized by the same person, but who knows why, with different codecs...

Does anyone know a solution to my problem, please?

Thanks in advance!

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Jiouz Posted messages 43 Status Membre 13
 
Well, what comes out of your answers is that icod, even in a .mov file, is a Mac format, so on my grandfather's Mac, I looked for a converter on the forums and came across this https://forums.commentcamarche.net/forum/affich-4669063-conversion-fichier-mov-en-format-type-avi, I chose Mpeg StreamClip, free.

So, I wanted to convert directly to .avi, but it didn't work, so I'm testing to convert to full-size mp4 with full quality, and I'll try to transfer it to Windows once it's done to put it back in the format I want! And if it works, Hallelujah!!!

Thanks for your answers, I'll keep you posted!
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Jiouz Posted messages 43 Status Membre 13
 
It's all good, it works perfectly! Thanks again everyone and see you soon!

Have a great holiday season!
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pourquoipas142 Posted messages 32 Registration date   Status Membre Last intervention   1
 
Cool. Content for you. Happy holidays.
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pourquoipas142 Posted messages 32 Registration date   Status Membre Last intervention   1
 
Ask the one who converted the files, because these are very rare video formats...
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Jiouz Posted messages 43 Status Membre 13
 
If we really can't do it, that's what we'll do, but isn't there any way to do it ourselves?
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pourquoipas142 Posted messages 32 Registration date   Status Membre Last intervention   1
 
The problem is that the .icod is a Mac-only format, so on PC...

Look online for a .icod to .avi converter.
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pourquoipas142 Posted messages 32 Registration date   Status Membre Last intervention   1
 
Well, I searched online. Bad news. The .icod format is only for Mac and not compatible with PC. So you need a Mac with video editing software to convert it to a more common format that is also PC-compatible. At best, ask the "pro" who edited it for you to re-encode it in a PC format.
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Jiouz Posted messages 43 Status Membre 13
 
No, it's indeed a .mov, but encoded in icod (see previous post).
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Jiouz Posted messages 43 Status Membre 13
 
It's not an .icod, it's definitely a .mov, but when I put it in the software, for certain files, it indicates (after the movie duration) "apco / 1920x1080 / 25 FPS" (I can convert those), and for others, it indicates "icod / 1920x1080 / 25 FPS" (and I can't convert those), so I imagine it's encoded in icod and not in apco, but I don't know much more...
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ziggourat Posted messages 24643 Registration date   Status Contributeur Last intervention   5 340
 
Good evening,

There is no solution on Windows :(

ICOD is the FourCC (?) for Apple Intermediate Codec. It is incompatible with the Windows system as mentioned earlier!
See Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Intermediate_Codec
I quote "The Apple Intermediate Codec is available only on the Mac OS X platform and cannot be read on other platforms to date such as Windows or Linux"

The Apco may correspond to the Apple ProRes: https://wiki.multimedia.cx/index.php?title=Apple_ProRes
It may be compatible with Windows in some cases.

The person who transformed your tapes into MOV probably worked on Apple, so ask them to create a file fully compatible with Windows, that is to say with the Apco codec as you mentioned.

Best regards
-- 
Long live Bobo! ~ Little fish will grow big ~
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Jiouz Posted messages 43 Status Membre 13
 
Ok thanks. I have a Mac next to me with "MacX Video Converter Pro", so the Mac version of "Any Video Converter Pro", but the files must be too large because every time I try to import a .mov file onto it, it crashes, whereas when I try with one of the converted files on Windows, it works. Do you know another Mac software that can convert videos?
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