MOV is usually the format used for videos recorded by iPhone iPad, DJI, Cannon and more, or the videos created by some Apple software like Final Cut Pro. WAV, shorted from Waveform Audio File Format, is an audio format standard which can store the audio bitstream. This is very important for audio editing. Whether you want to convert MOV video to WAV for audio observation, editing or just the soundtrack music, you can find the solution in this post.

Online MOV to WAV converter website is a choice for MOV video in small size. Almost all the online websites sets a limitation of the video file size for uploading and converting. Some sites make 400MB as the largest size and some allow MOV file less than 1GB. These make sense when you understand that the uploading process of large file is very time-consumption.

Besides, video in any format including MOV with large file size will impose a huge burden to the server of online converter. It’s a disaster if the website go crashing during the conversion of MOV to WAV. In a sudden, the long wait becomes a waste.

In the interest of converting MOV to WAV without file size limit, it’s suggested to use a MOV to WAV converter. Some software may also stop working when converting 4K UHD MOV videos. WinX Video Converter is a desktop software that allows you to convert HD/UHD videos with no file size limit. It can convert MOV to audio in WAV, FLAC, MP3, AAC, ALAC, etc. as well as convert MOV to video in MP4, WMV, AVI, and so forth.

All you need to do before converting MOV to WAV with this software is to download and install it on your PC or Mac computer. Then go after the steps below to start convert MOV video to WAV audio.

First, open WinX Video Converter, click “+Video” icon to add the video in MOV format that you want to convert. Or, you can directly drag the video file to this converter, it will automatically added to conversion queue.

Then, click “to Music”, and scroll down to choose “WAV (Lossless Audio)” as output profile.          

In the end, if you don’t need any other changes, you can click the “Run” button to convert the MOV file.

Tips: you can use the edit function to cut off unwanted part before converting. Although this software offers the option to adjust audio parameters, if you need WAV audio for further editing, it’s not recommended to adjust the audio bitrate, sample rate or channel.  

It’s quite easy to convert any MOV to WAV, right? Only a few clicks and a moment of wait, you can get what you want in the local folder on computer. 

If you don’t need the soundtrack with lossless quality, it’s better to convert it to AAC. Unlike WAV, it is widely compatible with many devices and applications as MP3. Besides, it can compress the audio file in size a lot comparing with WAV format. WAV is an audio format without compressing, the file size will be very large. Thus AAC is more convenient for storing, uploading or sharing. But the audio quality is not good as WAV. Regarding to MP3, it’s the format with lowest audio quality among these three, while it is larger than AAC.