Convert Movies? It’s Too Slow. Squint To Speed It Up.

Apple has a problem and needs a solution. Fast. Exactly. Fast. Movie file conversions from one format to another take forever, even on a PowerMac with dual CPUs. Don’t expect Intel Macs to be much better.

The problem is simple and about to hit mainstream. Movie files. There’s Windows Media (video and audio). There’s QuickTime. There’s H.264. There’s twenty eleven other formats and they don’t all like each other.

Your digital video camera probably saves in DV format (miniDV, DVcam, etc). Those movie files are huge..... (excerpted).

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