Step 1: Supply your WMV files using the button above or by haul and lay.
Step 2: Click the 'Convert' button to start the conversion.
Step 3: Get your converted MOV files.
WMV to MOV Conversion FAQ
What does the WMV to MOV converter do?
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WMV is a legacy container, often poorly supported on modern devices. Converting to MOV rewraps the video with a current codec (H.264 / H.265 / VP9) for broad browser, phone, and TV compatibility.
Will resolution and frame rate be preserved in the MOV?
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Yes. WMV → MOV keeps resolution, frame rate, and aspect ratio unchanged by default. To change them, use the Resize or Speed tool on the result.
My WMV footage shows comb lines on movement — will that carry into the MOV?
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Yes. WMV content is often interlaced, because the format comes from the broadcast and DVD era, and this converter has no deinterlace option, so the combing carries into the MOV. If it matters, deinterlace the WMV first in a desktop tool such as HandBrake or ffmpeg (the yadif filter). WMV is Windows Media Video, Microsoft’s ASF-based format from the Windows XP era.
Can I add selectable subtitles once the file is MOV?
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Yes. WMV has no usable soft-subtitle track, so subtitles for WMV content had to be burned into the picture or shipped as a separate sidecar file. MOV carries subtitles as their own selectable stream, so after conversion you can attach an SRT track the viewer can switch on, switch off or restyle. An MOV normally carries H.264 or HEVC for delivery, or ProRes when it is an editing master, alongside AAC or uncompressed PCM audio.
Is MOV the right target if the footage is going into an edit?
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It is the one editing software asks for. MOV is the container that professional timelines read and write natively, so the file drops in without a conform or transcode step first and survives being exported, re-imported and exported again without collecting another generation of loss. The price is size and portability: a container built for editing produces large files, and outside that world support is patchier than the universal delivery format. Convert to it to work on the footage and away from it to publish. MOV is the QuickTime container, which Final Cut Pro, Premiere and DaVinci Resolve all open natively.
Can the MOV hold more than one audio track?
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Yes, and it is a real upgrade over WMV. MOV treats every audio stream as a first-class track, so an original-language mix, a dub and a director commentary can live in one file with the player switching between them on demand.
Will the text in my WMV screen recording still be readable as MOV?
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It will if you keep the resolution and raise the quality. Screen content is the hardest thing to compress well — large flat areas with hairline-thin text over them — and the default settings on any encoder are tuned for camera footage, where a little smearing is invisible. Scaling a recording down is what actually destroys the text, far more than the codec does, so encode at the captured resolution and let the file be larger than you expected.
Does MOV support chapter markers that WMV did not?
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It does. MOV stores chapters as container metadata, so a long recording can be navigated by section instead of by scrubbing a progress bar. WMV has nowhere to put that information, so the converted MOV starts with no chapters; add markers afterwards with a tool such as MKVToolNix or ffmpeg.
Is there a file-size limit when converting WMV to MOV?
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Free conversions have a size limit per file, set by the type of file, and the page tells you when a file is over it. A paid plan removes that limit, so much larger files can be converted.
Can I batch-convert several WMV files to MOV at once?
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Several files in one job need a paid plan. Free use is one file per conversion, one conversion an hour. On a paid plan you can add several files to one job, then download each result on its own or all of them in one ZIP.
What happens to my WMV files after the conversion?
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Uploaded files are processed on our own conversion servers, nobody looks at them, and they are not shared. The upload and the converted file are both deleted automatically about 24 hours after the conversion, which leaves time to download the result. See /privacy/ for the full policy.
Will my MOV play on phones, tablets, and TVs?
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Yes — MOV uses modern codecs that play natively on iOS, Android, Smart TVs, game consoles, and every modern browser.
