Turn F4V videos into MOV. It is converted in your browser, so the file never leaves your device.
Drop F4V files here
or choose from your computer paste with Ctrl V
from Photos or Files
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Drop F4V 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 F4V 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.
F4V comes from the Flash era, and phones, browsers and editors often do not recognise the extension. MOV is what Final Cut, iMovie and other Apple tools prefer. An F4V file usually holds H.264 video with AAC audio. F4V is at home in old Flash web video and archives of it; 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.
The conversion uses your browser's own video and audio codecs (WebCodecs), with hardware acceleration where the device has it; the file is read from disk as it goes and can be up to 2 GB. Where the browser lacks a codec, the page falls back to the compatibility engine. A video over 500 MB cannot be kept at full quality in browser memory; choosing a lower resolution or quality under Options lets it fit.
F4V is the MPEG-4 based video container Adobe added to Flash Player in 2007 so that sites could serve H.264 instead of the older FLV. Flash itself was retired at the end of 2020, but F4V files from video sites and capture software remain.
Opens in VLC and most MP4-capable players
F4V 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| F4VFlash MP4 video | MOVQuickTime video | |
|---|---|---|
| Stands for | Flash MP4 Video | QuickTime File Format |
| Type | Video container | Video container |
| Compression | Lossy (H.264) | Lossy (or lossless with ProRes) |
| Usually contains | H.264 video with AAC audio | H.264 or HEVC video with AAC audio; ProRes in editing |
| Introduced | 2007, by Adobe | 1991, by Apple |
| Opens in | VLC and most MP4-capable players | Apple devices and video editors; Windows and Android are hit and miss |
| Best for | Old Flash web video and archives of it | Recording and editing on Apple devices |
| File extension | .f4v | .mov, .qt |
No. The F4V 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 F4V. 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 F4V file, press Convert and save the MOV. There is nothing to install.
Yes. Files up to 2 GB are accepted, and a video over 500 MB needs a lower resolution or quality chosen under Options so the result fits in memory. Beyond that the limit is your device's memory, since nothing is uploaded; a computer copes with large files better than a phone.