Video format mov 3gp

stevek

Senior Contributor Location: Houston, Texas USA Joined: Jan 25, 2011 12:18 Messages: 4663 Offline

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Sep 28, 2013 11:38

My son sent me a video from his IPhone that is a mov file with the extension of 3gp. I can;t open it with Power Director 11 or 12. I can open, preview and output the file to different formats with a different video editor. I know I can use a third party converter to get it to try to work with the file.

I don't see in the help files that Power Director will handle 3pg extensions.

Did miss something? .
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borgus1

Senior Contributor Joined: Feb 27, 2013 00:33 Messages: 1318 Offline

Sep 28, 2013 13:41

Quote: I don't see in the help files that Power Director will handle 3pg extensions.

Does here, using a 3pG test file from http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1425.
Renamed with a mov extension, it still opens in PD11.

stevek

Senior Contributor Location: Houston, Texas USA Joined: Jan 25, 2011 12:18 Messages: 4663 Offline

Sep 28, 2013 13:50

Quote:

Quote: I don't see in the help files that Power Director will handle 3pg extensions.

Does here, using a 3pG test file from http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1425.
Renamed with a mov extension, it still opens in PD11.

That was the key; renaming the file to (name).mov .
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ynotfish

Senior Contributor Location: N.S.W. Australia Joined: May 08, 2009 02:06 Messages: 9977 Offline

Sep 28, 2013 14:10

G'day Steve (and borgus1) -

Here, PD imports, plays & edits 3gp files just as they are (i.e. straight off the iphone). K-Lite installed.

Changing the file extension to either .mov or .mp4 works too.

Cheers - Tony
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Allmoto

Newbie Location: Washington, USA Joined: Dec 27, 2010 13:23 Messages: 36 Offline

Sep 07, 2014 15:13

I Have a few .3GP files that when renamed to .mp4 will play but the video is quite pixelated and choppy as well as the audio. They play nicely on my LG G2 which was the device used to capture the videos. Is there any fix for the start/stop, choppy video and audio?

Don