# MOV to MP4

Convert a QuickTime MOV to MP4 without re-encoding, so the picture is untouched and it takes seconds. Free, and nothing is uploaded.

Canonical page: https://filetity.com/mov-to-mp4

## Capabilities

- Free: Yes, with no watermark and no page limit.
- Account required: No. There is no account system.
- Processed on device: Yes. The file is read by your browser and never uploaded. There is no server to send it to.
- Formats: MOV in, MP4 out. Video encoded as H.264 is copied across; other codecs are re-encoded to H.264.
- Limits: The whole file is held in memory while the container is rewritten, so a very large recording is limited by your device rather than by the tool.
- Mobile: Yes, on any modern mobile browser. Large files are limited by the memory the phone gives the browser.
- Offline: Yes, once the page has loaded. The tool keeps working with no network connection.

## Questions

### Does converting cost me any quality?

Normally none at all. A MOV from an iPhone or a camera usually holds H.264, which an MP4 carries perfectly well, so the video data is copied across unchanged and the output is bit for bit the same picture. The page tells you which is happening before you start, because the answer differs by file.

### Why is it so much faster than other converters?

Because most of them decode every frame and encode it again whether or not that is necessary. Rewriting the container is a fraction of that work: there is no encoder involved, so the limit is how fast your disk can move the bytes.

### What if my MOV was recorded in HEVC?

Newer iPhones record HEVC when set to High Efficiency, and that has to be re-encoded to H.264 for the MP4 to play everywhere, which takes real time. The page says which path your file is taking before you commit to the wait.

### Will the result play on Windows and Android?

That is usually the whole reason for converting. MOV is Apple's container and support elsewhere is patchy, while MP4 is the format every phone, browser, TV and editing program reads. The video inside is often identical; the box around it is what everything else was refusing.

### Does it keep the audio?

Yes, and normally without re-encoding that either. If the audio is in a codec an MP4 cannot hold, the page tells you rather than silently handing back a video with no sound, which is the failure people find out about after uploading it somewhere.

## Related tools

- [WebM to MP4](https://filetity.com/webm-to-mp4): Convert a WebM to MP4, so phones and editors will play it.
- [Compress video](https://filetity.com/compress-video): Make a video smaller without uploading it anywhere.