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How to Convert MOV to WAV
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When Do You Need to Convert MOV to WAV?
You need the audio from a MOV in a form an editor will accept without complaint. Converting MOV to WAV is the normal first step before cleaning up an interview in Audition or Audacity, before transcription, or before feeding audio into software that refuses compressed formats.
What Happens When You Convert MOV to WAV
ffmpeg decodes the audio stream from the MOV and writes it as uncompressed PCM in a WAV container. There is no second lossy pass here, so the WAV holds exactly what the decoder produced. It does not recover detail the original recording already discarded, since MOV audio is usually AAC and that loss happened when the file was made. Expect the file to grow considerably, because WAV stores raw samples. Stereo at 44.1 kHz runs about 10 MB per minute regardless of how small the MOV was.
Worth knowing before you convert
Long recordings turn into very large files. A one hour interview lands near 600 MB as stereo WAV, which is worth planning for before you convert a batch.
About MOV and WAV
video/quicktime
MOV is a multimedia container developed by Apple and used primarily in macOS and iOS ecosystems. It supports high-quality codecs such as ProRes, making it popular in professional video production and editing workflows. While excellent for editing, MOV files are often larger than MP4 equivalents.
audio/wav
WAV is an uncompressed audio format that stores raw PCM audio data. It delivers perfect audio quality but results in very large file sizes. WAV is commonly used in professional audio recording, editing, and archival workflows.
Conversion Notes
Extracting audio from MOV to WAV demuxes the audio stream without re-encoding where the source codec matches the target. When re-encoding is required, audio is processed at high quality settings to minimise generation loss. Video data is discarded entirely — the output contains only the audio track from the original file.
Frequently Asked Questions
The conversion step is. Nothing is thrown away between the decoded audio and the WAV. The original MOV audio was probably lossy AAC though, so the WAV is an exact copy of an already compressed recording, not a restored one.