subject: Playback, Edit and Share AVI videos on Mac OS [print this page] Playback, Edit and Share AVI videos on Mac OS
You got videos and movies which your Mac/iPad does not recognize? Well, Mac/iPad and other Apple devices mostly recognize Quicktime (.mov) files. So you have to change the format to mov and enjoy the video on your Apple devices.
Quicktime: QuickTime is an extensible proprietary multimedia framework developed by Apple Inc., capable of handling various formats of digital video, picture, sound, panoramic images, and interactivity. It is available for Mac OS classic (System 7 onwards), Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows operating systems. The latest version is QuickTime X (10.0) and is currently only available on Mac OS X v10.6.
Let me explain this using AVI as the example:
AVI is a multimedia container format introduced by Microsoft in November 1992 as part of its Video for Windows technology. AVI files can contain both audio and video data in a file container that allows synchronous audio-with-video playback. Like the DVD video format, AVI files support multiple streaming audio and video, although these features are seldom used.
Watching and editing AVI videos on Mac can be difficult because Mac always recognize MOV videos. Just convert AVI to MOV on Mac OS using MOV to AVI Converter for Mac.
Step 1: Load or drag AVI videos to AVI to MOV Converter.
Step 2: Choose MOV as output format from format list. You could also trim, crop, and add effect to the AVI videos before converting.
Step 3: Click "Start" to start AVI to MOV conversion on Mac OS X.
Only with the above three steps, you can not only convert AVI to MOV, you can also convert video files of many other formats.
