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MP4 to MOV

The same H.264 picture in the container the Apple editors open first.

This one runs on your credits. The same H.264 picture in the container the Apple editors open first.

Sign in and get 500 free credits every month — enough for many files — then drop the file in the workbench and run mp4 to mov there.

Pick a file below to see exactly what it would cost.

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More free conversions, where you upload. The Fylane extension does the same work inside any upload form, on its own free share every day.About the extension

How to convert MP4 to MOV

  1. Drop the video.
  2. Nothing to choose.
  3. Press Convert and download the MOV.

What happens to your file

The video is re-encoded as H.264 with AAC sound and written as a QuickTime file with its index at the front. MOV and MP4 are close cousins — the same streams in a different wrapper — so this is for the editor or the workflow that asks for .mov by name.

Questions

Is MOV better quality than MP4?

No. Both hold the same H.264 and AAC; the quality is decided by the encode, not the wrapper. Pick MOV only because an app asks for it.

Do this in code

curl -X POST https://api.fylane.dev/v1/jobs \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $FYLANE_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "file_id": "<file id>",
    "operation": "video.convert",
    "options": {
      "container": "mov"
    }
  }'

The same operation, video.convert — Anything playable becomes H.264+AAC in a faststart MP4 — or, by `container`, MOV, MKV, VP9+Opus WebM, or Xvid+MP3 AVI for old players. Plus the small edits: mute, rotate, flip, speed (the sound keeps its pitch), reverse (60 s at most), loop. Upload first with the quickstart; every option is on the operations page. 500 free credits a month, then $5 per thousand.