Converting a movie to QuickTime

I can't find a way to convert a movie to Quicktime without spending a whole lot of money. I'm on a Mac, with Mac software and Quicktime is a Mac application. Why is this so hard?

Try Miro:
http://www.mirovideoconverter.com
It's free and easy to use.

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    Hi,
    First of all, I'd like to ask you an apology if my problem has been solved in another post, but I couldn't find it.
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    File size is dicated by the bitrate of the file. From my review of (thousands) of WMV files there appears to be some compression in the WMV format that is not reapplied when save as to a MOV container is performed. You can see in get info the WMV file say 100MB has maybe 125-150MB of data when it is fully loaded in Quicktime.
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