MOV to WAV

What extracting WAV from a MOV is for

WAV is uncompressed PCM audio, and the reason to pull it out of a MOV is almost always what happens next: editing, mixing, transcription, or archiving. iPhone and Mac recordings, which is what most MOV files are, hand their audio over as 16-bit PCM that any editor, DAW, or transcription service accepts without a decode step or another round of compression.

The extraction runs locally in your browser. The video stream is ignored, the audio is decoded once and written as WAV, and nothing is uploaded anywhere.

• Drop the MOV; the audio decodes on your own device
• Output is standard 16-bit PCM WAV
• Ready for editors, DAWs, and transcription tools

WAV or MP3: pick by destination

Choose WAV when the audio is going into software: an editor, a transcription engine, a sampler. Nothing is re-compressed, so later edits and exports start from the cleanest copy the recording allows.

Choose MP3 when the audio is going to people. WAV runs near ten megabytes per minute, which is a pointless burden for listening; the dedicated MOV to MP3 page makes the small file.