Comparison between MOV and MP4

MOV was originally developed by Apple as a file format for its QuickTime movie player. The MOV format presented a lot of advantages that are quite usable to everyday use but the proprietary nature of the MOV format was a major hindrance.

The MP4 file format was later developed as an industry standard, the developments was greatly based on the MOV file format to the point that they were exactly identical at first. The changes that were introduced were very minor and mostly involved data tagging information.

Summary:

1.Both MOV and MP4 are lossy formats which sacrifices quality for file size

2.MOV was initially developed by Apple as a file format for QuickTime

3.MOV is the basis for the development of MP4

4.MP4 is the industry standard and has more widespread support than MOV

5.Saving your file to either MOV or MP4 would result in the same video if you use the same codec

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