If you have an iPhone or iPad, you may have used the front or rear camera of this mobile device at some point. With it you can reach take truly exceptional photographs thanks to the image quality offered by the lens of each of these magnificent Apple devices.
If you are going to record video, it is recommended that you try to use the rear camera, since it is the one with the highest resolution and therefore, the one that will offer you the best image quality of what you end up filming. However, What would you think about having these videos to play on Windows? Through a small trick we can achieve this, which will rely on one of the tools that Microsoft generally offers for its operating system.
iPhone Video Compatibility on Windows
While it is true that we could easily play these videos from the iPhone or iPad in Windows, it is also true that there could be situations in which this task is truncated if we do not have the codecs installed. You must take into account that iPhone and iPad record video in Apple's favorite formats, that is, with a ".mov" extension; This means that you should undeniably have iTunes or at least QuickTime installed in Windows, otherwise the files will not be played at any time.
In addition, if you want to distribute these videos to your friends via email so that they can watch them on their respective computers, you may have to consider that they may not have these two tools installed on their respective computers. The video format that can be easily read on any Windows computer is the "Windows Media Video" (or WMV), which is why now we will teach you how to convert it easily without having to buy a third-party application.
Using Microsoft's Windows Live Maker
If you have Windows 7, you may not find this tool installed on your personal computer, since it is part of the Windows Live Essentials package, which you have to download; If you don't know how to do it, we recommend that you review the article where we teach you how to activate Windows Live Messenger chat again, since to do so you must have downloaded this entire package. At installation choose only the items you want to have in the operating system, making sure that the Windows Live Maker box is activated.
Once you have it, you just have to run it and Search for the video you previously recorded on your iPhone or iPad. When you find it, you must drag it to the interface and that's it, you will have already imported the video into the free editing tool offered by Microsoft. Right here you can make a few changes, one of the most important being the one that will help you rotate the video if you have recorded it with the mobile device in a vertical position. You just have to choose the respective icon with the arrow in the correct direction so that you can rotate the video to the respective position.
Converting iPhone videos to standard WMV
In reality, this is not a trick but rather a function that is integrated into the application that we have recommended downloading. When you have the video ready to be exported, you just have to go to the option on the right that says "save movie as", where a few options will appear to choose from.
Most of these options offer you the possibility of save the video (export it) to a format in high definition and also, to a second option, which is this WMV. If you are going to distribute the video via email to your friends, then you should choose the custom option for this feature. This is because you will get a video with little weight and a proportional width. You can choose any other one you want, although you must pay attention to what is shown in the description, since the use of the resolution of the resulting video is indicated there.