Turn DV videos into MOV. It is converted in your browser, so the file never leaves your device.
Drop DV files here
or choose from your computer paste with Ctrl V
from Photos or Files
Ready · other file types work too0 bytes uploaded, ever
Drop DV (DIF) files onto the box above, or click it to choose them. ToAny reads the file's contents to detect the type, so a wrong extension does not matter.
Press Convert. Open Options first if you want to change the defaults. The work happens in this tab and can take a while for large files.
Save the MOV, or download everything as one ZIP if you converted several files.
The DV to MOV converter is part of this page and runs inside your browser. Your videos are never sent to ToAny or to anyone else.
Nothing has to travel to a server and back, so work starts the moment you press Convert. How long it takes depends on your device and the size of the file.
No sign-up, no email address and no watermark. Add several files and download them together as a ZIP.
DV is large for its quality and does not open on phones or in browsers. MOV is what Final Cut, iMovie and other Apple tools prefer. A DV file usually holds DV video (intraframe, about 25 Mbit/s) with PCM audio. DV is at home in capturing and archiving MiniDV tapes; MOV is the usual choice for recording and editing on Apple devices.
The defaults suit most files. Under Options you can lower the resolution, trade quality against file size, remove the sound and trim the start and end. This is demanding work for a browser: a long or high-resolution file can take several minutes, and your device does all of it, so keep the tab open.
This pair uses the compatibility engine, ffmpeg built for the browser, because DV is not handled by the browser's built-in codecs. It is a one-off download of about 10 MB that the browser keeps, it is slower than the built-in codecs, and it takes files up to 1 GB.
A .dv file is a raw stream of DV video as captured over FireWire from a MiniDV or Digital8 camcorder. It stores each frame on its own, which is easy to edit but needs about 13 GB per hour.
Opens in Video editors and VLC; few phones or browsers
DV converterMOV is Apple's QuickTime container and what iPhones and Macs record. MP4 was based on it, so the two are close relatives and often hold exactly the same video and audio streams inside.
Opens in Apple devices and video editors; Windows and Android are hit and miss
MOV converter| DVDV video | MOVQuickTime video | |
|---|---|---|
| Stands for | Digital Video | QuickTime File Format |
| Type | Video format | Video container |
| Compression | Lossy | Lossy (or lossless with ProRes) |
| Usually contains | DV video (intraframe, about 25 Mbit/s) with PCM audio | H.264 or HEVC video with AAC audio; ProRes in editing |
| Introduced | 1995, by a consortium of Sony, Panasonic, JVC, Philips and others | 1991, by Apple |
| Opens in | Video editors and VLC; few phones or browsers | Apple devices and video editors; Windows and Android are hit and miss |
| Best for | Capturing and archiving MiniDV tapes | Recording and editing on Apple devices |
| File extension | .dv, .dif | .mov, .qt |
No. The DV to MOV conversion runs inside your browser, on your own phone or computer. The file is not sent to ToAny or to anyone else.
It depends on what is inside the DV. When its video and audio are already in a form MOV can hold, they can be carried over without being compressed again. Otherwise they are re-encoded, which costs a little quality. Under Options you can favour quality or a smaller file.
Yes. Add as many as you like, convert them together and download each result or all of them as one ZIP.
The steps are the same everywhere because ToAny runs in the web browser: open this page in a current version of Chrome, Edge, Safari or Firefox, add the DV file, press Convert and save the MOV. There is nothing to install.
Yes. DV to MOV runs on the compatibility engine, which takes files up to 1 GB, and a long clip takes a while because it is slower than the browser's built-in codecs. Beyond that the limit is your device's memory, since nothing is uploaded; a computer copes with large files better than a phone.