Is there an easy way to edit (or at least play) .MOV files ?

[was gingernut]

Folks at work had a whip round and bought me one of these camera's you can strap to your dog/surboard/kite etc. I'm really pleased with the results, but viewing / editing them in Windows 7 seems problematic, sometimes it work, sometimes it doesn't.

Have had a look at free downloads, but my virus scanner seems to warn me against them.

At the moment I'm looking at them on the telly, via a cable, and uploading the clips I like on fb/you tube, so that I can see them on my laptop.

Cheers,

ginge :)

Have downloaded Any Video Converter, but didn't seem to work either.

[was gingernut]

Further to the last, tried playing my latest master pieces both through the telly, and on the camera viewfinder and all I got was "invalid file." Think it may be something to do with the mounting of the micro sd card ??

[Background Noise]

Try VLC Media Player, it plays most file types, including .mov I think.

VideoLAN - Official page for VLC media player, the Open Source video framework! (http://www.videolan.org/vlc/index.en_GB.html)

You might find that it will export to a more windows-friendly format which can then be edited.

Quicktime is also available for windows, the player is free and does basic editing - trimming and cutting.

http://support.apple.com/en_GB/downloads/#quicktime

[vulcanised]

Alternatively, use Format Factory to convert the files to something you find more useful. You can keep the originals if you want to.

[was gingernut]

thanks chaps