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Video to MP4
In the first of a series of posts we are going to show you how to convert your video files to MP4.
Video to MP4 – The Background
MP4 files are multimedia files that can store Video, Audio and further data depending on the content. Apple use the MP4 container format for their iPhone, iPad, iPod through iTunes and Sony has embraced it for their PSP and PS3 devices propelling it’s popularity.
Video to MP4 – How can it be played ?
MP4 files can be played through a number of programs – the most common program associated with playing the MP4 file is the Quicktime player, however it can also be played through Apple’s iTunes and VideoLAN’s VLC Media Player.
Video to MP4 - If I can’t open it, how can I convert it ?
This is where we here at Zamzar come in 
Zamzar is an online file conversion site that doesn’t require you to download any software in order to convert your MP4 files. Follow these steps to convert your MP4 file into a format that you can open on the machine/device that you are on :
Video to MP4 – Convert your file – Step One
Browse for your file on your local computer and select / drag that file across onto the Zamzar site. 
Video to MP4 – Convert your file – Step Two
Select the file format / device that you are looking to convert to.
Video to MP4 – Convert your file – Step Three
Enter your email address – this is where Zamzar will send the link for you to download your converted file.
Video to MP4 – Convert your file – Step Four
Click the button confirming you are happy for Zamzar to convert your file. You will then receive an email with a link to your converted file.
Video to MP4 – Retrieve your file – Step Five
Open the link to your file and select the download button to download your converted file. 
Video to MP4 – Open the file – Step Six
You should now be in a position to open your converted file in your media player of choice.
Hopefully this has proved useful in understanding how to convert your video files to MP4. Head across to Zamzar now to start converting.
Happy Converting !
The Zamzar Team.
Convert TS to AVI, FLV, MOV, MP4 and MPG amongst others
Filed under: Announcements, Conversions | Tags: convert HDTV files, convert ts files, convert ts to avi, convert ts to mp4, convert ts to mpeg
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You can now convert .TS files to other popular video formats using Zamzar – we are delighted to announce support for this brand new conversion. The popular TS format is used to encode HDTV broadcasts – we have had a lot of requests from people who are looking for a simple way to convert these files into a more useable format. We’re pleased to say that we’ve now enabled this and you can now use Zamzar to convert TS files into a bunch of video and audio formats, including AVI, FLV, MOV, MP4 and MPG !
People want their formats to be in a more standard form with the ability to play them on a multitude of devices – with this new enhancement you can now play the TS file on your iPhone, iPad, PC or Mac – enjoy !
See the list of supported conversions that we now support from TS below :
- 3gp – 3GPP Multimedia File
- 3g2 – 3GPP2 Multimedia File
- aac – Advanced Audio Coding File
- ac3 – AC3 Audio File
- avi – Windows video file
- flac – Free Lossless Audio Codec
- flv – Flash video
- gif – Compuserve graphics interchange
- iPad – MPEG-4 (H264) Video File
- iPhone – MPEG-4 (H264) Video File
- iPod – MPEG-4 Video File
- mp3 – Compressed audio file
- mov – Apple QuickTime Movie
- mp4 – MPEG-4 Video File
- mpg – Moving Picture Experts Group File
- ogg – Ogg Vorbis Compressed Audio File
- wav – Windows audio file
- webm – Multimedia Container Format
- wmv – Windows Media Video
We hope this new feature will help all of you who have been stuck looking for a way to convert your TS files into both video and audio.
Don’t take our word for it – Go try it out for yourself today !
Happy converting,
The Zamzar Team.
Convert files from DOCX to JPG, GIF, BMP, TIFF, PNG and many more
Filed under: Announcements, Conversions | Tags: convert docx, docx to bmp, docx to gif, docx to jpg, docx to png
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We are delighted to announce that we have extended our support for DOCX files so that you can now use Zamzar to convert DOCX files into a bunch of new image formats, including JPG, GIF, BMP, TIFF and PNG !
Many people find it handy to convert their documents into images – not least for easily embedding document content within web pages. Previously we supported the conversion of older Microsoft Word (1997 – 2003) document files into image formats but not newer Microsoft Word 2007 and Microsoft Word 2010 versions – we’re now pleased to say that you can convert these too. For all DOCX files we now support conversion to:
- bmp – Windows Bitmap
- doc – Microsoft Word Document
- gif – Compuserve graphics interchange
- jpg – JPEG compliant image
- mp3 – Compressed audio file
- odt – OpenDocument Text Document
- pcx – Paintbrush Bitmap Image
- pdf – Portable Document Format
- png – Portable Network Graphic
- ps – Postscript document
- tiff – Tagged image file format
- thumbnail – Thumbnail image
- txt – Text document
We hope this new feature will help all of you who have been stuck looking for a way to convert your shiny new DOCX files into images.
Don’t take our word for it – Go try it out for yourself today !
Happy converting,
The Zamzar Team.
Use Zamzar to convert XLR to XLS, XLSX, PDF and more
You can now use Zamzar to convert XLR files into a variety of different file formats, including XLS, XLSX, PDF and more !
Microsoft no longer support XLR files or Works Spreadsheet or Chart file’s as they may more commonly be known in their latest versions of Microsoft Office – both Office 2007 and Office 2010. We here at Zamzar receive requests everyday for new conversion types and we are delighted to announce that we can now support conversion of XLR files. You can now convert these to :
- csv – Comma Separated Values
- html – Hypertext Markup Language
- mdb – Microsoft Access Database
- ods – OpenDocument spreadsheet
- pcx – Paintbrush Bitmap Image
- pdf – Portable Document Format
- ps – Postscript document
- rtf – Rich Text Format
- xls – Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet
- xlsx – Microsoft Excel 2007 Spreadsheet
- xml – Extensible Markup Language
We hope these will help all of you who have been stuck looking for a way to convert your XLR files after upgrading to the new version of Office.
Don’t take our word for it – Go try it out for yourself today !
Happy converting,
The Zamzar Team.
Open Old Powerpoint Presentations in Office 2007 and Office 2010
Filed under: Announcements, Conversions | Tags: office2007, office2010, old powerpoint, old ppt, Powerpoint
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Zamzar now allows you to open old Powerpoint presentations in Office 2007 and Office 2010, by converting them to a more up-to-date format. No longer should you have to see the horrible error:
The Problem (Microsoft)
We often receive emails requesting support for a new conversion type or help with problems converting a tricky file – we read every one, and try our best to help where we can, but it’s not every day that the inventor of one of those file formats emails us …
Two weeks ago we received an email from Robert Gaskins. Robert is widely credited as having been part of the team which invented PowerPoint back in the mid 1980s. He lead the team at Forethought Inc that received venture capital investment from Apple Computing and which was subsequently acquired by Microsoft who now own the product that is installed on over 1 billion computers worldwide and is a standard for presentations from Tibet to Timbuktu.
Robert suggested there were a large number of people (himself included), who had older Powerpoint presentations that wouldn’t open in the newer versions of Microsoft Office (2007 and 2010), instead receiving the following error:
![PowerPoint can't open the type of file represented by [FILENAME]](http://zamzar.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/open_old_powerpoint_file.jpg?w=480&h=174 "PowerPoint can't open the type of file represented by [FILENAME]")
Microsoft Madness
This problem seems to be caused by 2 acts of Microsoft madness:
- In Service Pack 3 for Office 2003, Microsoft deliberately disabled support for many older file formats and provided 2 mind-boggling complex workarounds(here and here).
- Perhaps even more annoyingly for users, Microsoft doesn’t support opening older (’95 and ’97) versions of Powerpoint files in Office 2007 and 2010.
The Solution (Zamzar)
Robert asked if there was anything we could do to help, and we’ve worked hard to come up with a solution – We’re pleased to announce that from today if you have a Microsoft Powerpoint file older than 1997 that doesn’t open in Microsoft Powerpoint 2007 or Microsoft Powerpoint 2010 you can now use Zamzar to convert it into a 1997-2003 version of Powerpoint which makes it compatible with the latest 2007 and 2010 versions of Powerpoint.
You can convert files from such ancient versions of PowerPoint as v3.0 – released 20 years ago in 1992 !
Just select “ppt (1997-2003)” as the “to” format in Step 2 of your conversion on Zamzar:
Thanks to Robert for bringing this to our attention – we hope this helps. If anyone else has any new suggestions for help with your file format problems do get in touch !
Happy Presenting !
The Zamzar Team
We’re improving Zamzar …
Filed under: Conversions, News | Tags: docx to doc, file conversion, keynote to ppt, pdf to jpg, pdf to xls, pub to pdf, Zamzar
Comments (4) Our rocket scientists have been working hard to make Zamzar better for you over the past few months.
Here’s a quick rundown of the things we’ve been fixing in recent months.
If you’ve noticed any other bugs, or want us to improve anything else with the service please let us know.
Conversions
- PDF to JPG – In some cases we noticed that very large files (500+ pages) were failing to convert.
- Keynote to PPT – Some Apple Keynote presentations had issues when being converted into Microsoft Powerpoint.
- DOCX to DOC – Some larger .docx files were failing to convert correctly to the .doc format.
Note: We’re still aware of an issue whereby some files with a non-Latin alphabet fail to convert. Our engineers are working to fix this. - PDF to XLS – A bug in our conversion process caused a number of these conversions to fail. We’ve now fixed this to improve conversion success for these files by over 40%
- PUB to PDF – Files with very long filenames were failing, an issue which we’ve now fixed.
Video conversions
We fixed an issue which had been preventing video file conversions from the popular video sharing website at GodTube. Yay !
Notification Emails
- Delivering to your inbox – We’ve improved the way we send email notifications for conversions so that less of them end up in your spam folders.
- Look & Feel – In some email providers (most notably Yahoo Mail and AOL Mail) Zamzar conversion emails looked wonky. We’ve now tidied them up to look all nice and shiny.
Happy converting,
The Zamzar Team.
Convert Keynote to Powerpoint, PDF, HTML and more
Filed under: Conversions, News | Tags: .key, conversions, convert keynote, convert keynote to pdf, convert keynote to powerpoint, iwork, ppt
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You can now use Zamzar to convert Apple iWork Keynote files into a variety of different file formats, including PDF, HTML, PNG and more !
Just two months ago we launched support for converting Keynote files into Powerpoint’s PPT format. As we promised back then we are now launching support for even more formats. You can now convert Keynote files to:
- html – Hypertext Markup Language
- ipod – MPEG-4 Video File
- jpg – JPEG compliant image
- mov – Apple QuickTime Movie
- pdf – Portable Document Format
- png – Portable Network Graphic
- tiff – Tagged image file format
We think these new formats offer a great opportunity for sharing presentations created with Keynote more widely – the various image formats enable you to share individual slides with friends, whilst HTML is a great format for getting your slide deck online quickly and easily.
Don’t take our word for it – Go try it out for yourself today !
Happy converting,
The Zamzar Team.
Convert iPad videos – watch AVI, FLV, MOV, MPG & WMV files on your iPad
Filed under: Conversions, News | Tags: avi to iPad, convert iPad, convert iPad videos, flv to iPad, mp4, mpg to iPad, wmv to iPad
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Following the release of the iPad from Apple we’ve had a number of requests to allow video conversions to be optimised for this device.
We are therefore pleased to announce that you can now use Zamzar to convert videos from almost any video format into an optimised MP4 format especially designed for the iPad – see below for a list of supported video formats:
- 3g2 – 3GPP2 Multimedia File
- 3gp – 3GPP Multimedia File
- asf – Advanced Streaming Format (Microsoft Corporation)
- avi – Windows video file
- flv – Flash Video
- gvi – Google video file
- m4v – MPEG-4 Video File
- mod – Hard disk camera movie
- mov – Apple QuickTime Movie
- mp4 – MPEG-4 Video File
- mpg – Moving Picture Experts Group File
- rm – RealMedia Streaming Media
- rmvb – RealVideo Variable Bit Rate File
- vob – DVD Video Movie File
- wmv – Windows Media File (Microsoft Corporation)
We hope these conversions will be useful to you lucky iPad owners who want to watch videos directly on your iPad’s.
Happy converting !
The Zamzar Team
Convert BMP, GIF, JPG, PNG, TIFF to WebP
Filed under: Announcements, Conversions | Tags: bmp to webp, convert webp, gif to webp, jpg to webp, png to webp, webp
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At Zamzar we’re always keen to support newly released file formats and we’re pleased to announce that from today we now support image file conversions both to and from Google’s newly released WebP format.
Google is on a mission to make the web faster – images and photos make up about 65% of the bytes transmitted per web page today, and the new WebP format is an attempt to try and reduce the size of those images – WebP is a method of lossy compression that can be applied to photographic images to make them smaller, without sacrificing too much quality. It offers compression that has shown almost 40% more byte-size efficiency than JPEG for the same quality of image in a large scale study of 900,000 images on the Web. If these images or a portion of these images were held as WebP, bandwidth would be greatly reduced without loss of image quality.
We’re therefore pleased to say you can now use Zamzar to convert these formats both to and from WebP for all of the following formats :
- bmp – Windows bitmap
- emf – Windows Enhanced Metafile
- gif – Compuserve graphics interchange
- jpg – JPEG compliant image
- pcx – PC Paintbrush Bitmap Graphic
- png – Portable Network Graphic
- tga – Truevision Targa Graphic
- tiff – Tagged image file format
- wbmp – Wireless Bitmap File Format
We hope these conversions will be useful to those of you who want to use the new WebP image technology from Google in your web pages or applications.
Happy converting,
The Zamzar Team
Convert doc to docx, pdf to docx
Filed under: Conversions, News | Tags: convert doc to docx, convert pdf to docx, doc to docx, pdf to docx
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We’re always looking to support more formats and we have had a number of requests from you guys to look at supporting conversions into Microsoft’s .docx format – an increasingly popular document format introduced in MS Office 2007.
We’re pleased to say you can now use Zamzar to convert these formats into docx :
- doc – Microsoft Word Document
- pdf – Portable Document Format
We hope this conversion will be useful to those of you who receive documents in these formats from colleagues and friends who need them returned in the .docx format.
Happy converting,
The Zamzar Team
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