Alright. I'm working on a project in photography. The computers in photography class are macintosh. The computer at my house in which I record the clips is a PC. (windows XP) I'm using a program called GameCam to record clips from World of Warcraft to make an animation/video remake of a video called "Rogues do it from behind." I've recorded about .... 20 different clips and they are all in AVI format. I went to class, and tried to watch them with Quicktime player on the macs and it just said an error message. So I figured either they weren't in correct format, whether only MOV files will play on Quicktime, or something screwed up while I was recording. I went home, and tried a program called AVSforYou or something and supposedly converted the files to MOV. It didn't convert even though it said it did. All I'm asking is if someone to suggest a program to me that I can easily convert these files into some format in which they will work on these macs with quicktime player. As for not knowing much about computers, I'd say I know about as much as an average person would know. I'm not an expert or anything. I hate macs for personal reasons.
Someone suggested a program called Streamclip MPEG, so I went home that day and downloaded it, it was a fake program and resulted in several viruses, I tried to take care of it using AVG, and searching and deleting, but in the end a re-format was the only way. When and if I get it to work, I'll be using Final Cut Pro to make the video, edit it and create it. I think I hit everything there.
