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Need help?ODG to MOV: A Draw Diagram as a QuickTime Slate
ODG is the drawing format of LibreOffice Draw and Apache OpenOffice Draw — vector shapes and text frames in a ZIP of XML. MOV is Apple's QuickTime container, the house format of Final Cut Pro, iMovie and QuickTime Player. This conversion renders the drawing and holds each page as a silent, motionless frame in a MOV, which is exactly the file you want when a diagram, title card or logo has to sit on an Apple editing timeline rather than be viewed as a picture.
How to Convert ODG to MOV
- Upload Your ODG File: Drag the drawing onto the page or click "+ Add Files". Queue several and Merge strategy decides between one MOV holding each drawing in turn ("Merge images") and one MOV per upload ("Video per image").
- Set the Video Resolution: Video resolution opens on "Keep original". Pick Fixed Resolutions → 1920 x 1080, or whatever your project's timeline runs at, so the clip drops in without the editor rescaling it on import.
- Set the Image Duration and Background Color: Image Duration → Duration sets how long each page is held — 5 seconds by default, from a 1/60-second frame up to 10 seconds. Background Color, White by default, fills the pillarbox or letterbox area a page of a different shape leaves behind.
- Convert and Download: Click "Convert" and save the MOV. Files are uploaded over an encrypted connection, processed on our servers, and deleted automatically after a few hours. No sign-up, no watermark.
ODG Format at a Glance
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Standard | OpenDocument Format (ODF), also published as ISO/IEC 26300 |
| Maintained by | OASIS Open — ODF 1.0 approved May 2005, published as ISO/IEC 26300:2006 |
| Graphics model | Vector — lines, shapes, text frames, gradients, layers |
| Container | ZIP-compressed XML package |
| Created by | LibreOffice Draw, Apache OpenOffice Draw |
| Pages | One or more drawing pages per file |
| Best for | Editable diagrams, flowcharts and technical illustrations |
MOV Format at a Glance
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Format | QuickTime File Format (QTFF), developed by Apple |
| Introduced | 1991; the public specification followed in 2001 |
| MIME type | video/quicktime |
| Relationship to MP4 | QTFF is the basis of the ISO Base Media File Format, and so of MP4 |
| Codecs offered here | 18, with H.264 preselected — H.265, MPEG-1/2/4, DivX, Xvid, WMV1/2, MJPEG and more |
| Audio in this conversion | None — a drawing has no sound to encode |
| Best for | Final Cut Pro, iMovie and QuickTime Player workflows |
Where the Frame Comes From
The .odg goes through LibreOffice as a Draw document, is exported with Draw's own PDF filter, and each PDF page is rendered at 300 DPI into a frame before the encoder sees it. An A4 page therefore arrives around 2480 x 3508 pixels — larger than a 1080p timeline, which means choosing a Video resolution is normally a downscale and the result stays crisp. The frames are held at 1 fps, since identical frames need nothing more, and page count is preserved: a three-page drawing becomes three held frames in one clip.
Frequently Asked Questions
Will the MOV have any motion or animation?
No. The drawing is a static page, so the output is a rendered frame held for the duration you set — no panning, zooming or transitions. If you want movement, add it after import: a Ken Burns move in iMovie or a scale keyframe in Final Cut does the job, and both look better applied to a large source frame than baked in beforehand.
Does the MOV include audio?
No. ODG carries no sound, so the encoder writes a video track and nothing else — the Audio Codec group does not render on this page. Drop the clip on your timeline and layer music or narration underneath it there.
Which codec does the output use, and will QuickTime open it?
H.264 by default, which is the pairing Apple's tools expect inside a MOV, so the file plays in QuickTime Player and imports into Final Cut Pro and iMovie without transcoding. Seventeen other codecs are selectable if a specific pipeline needs one, but there is rarely a reason on an Apple-bound file.
MOV or MP4 for my project?
MOV if you are editing in Apple software, where it is the house format and the metadata conventions match. MP4 for the widest cross-platform and web compatibility. Both wrap the same H.264 video here, so the choice is about which application has to open it — ODG to MP4 writes the other one.
My ODG has several pages — what happens to them?
Each page becomes its own held frame inside the same MOV, in page order, shown for the Image Duration you chose. Three pages at the 5-second default give a 15-second clip. If you would rather have one clip per page, save the pages as separate .odg files in Draw, upload them together, and set Merge strategy to "Video per image".
What frame rate does the MOV use, and does it matter for a still?
The clip is written at 1 fps, and for an unchanging picture that has no visible effect — every frame is identical, so the image looks the same regardless of timebase. The length is governed entirely by the Image Duration. If your editor prefers a specific frame rate, conform the clip on import; nothing about the picture changes.
Do I need LibreOffice installed to use this?
No. The .odg is opened and rendered on our servers, so you need neither LibreOffice nor QuickTime locally — a browser to upload the drawing and download the MOV is enough. That is also why fonts are resolved server-side, and why a drawing depending on a locally installed typeface is worth converting to curves in Draw first.
How are my files handled, and how long are they kept?
Files are uploaded over an encrypted connection, processed on our servers, and deleted automatically a few hours after conversion — never shared, never made public, no sign-up and no watermark. If a video was not what you needed after all, the ODG converter hub lists the image, PDF and vector targets for the same file.