AVI to MOV: How to Convert AVI to QuickTime MOV on Mac

Summary: This article mainly tells you how to convert AVI to QuickTime MOV format so that you can play AVI in QuickTime or edit AVI with Mac tools without any issue.



If you have played AVI files in QuickTime, you may have found that some AVI videos could play successfully but some could not. Why did it go wrong? In fact, QuickTime only natively plays AVI files encoded with Motion JPEG; QuickTime won't play AVI videos encoded with DivX, XviD or other video codecs. So if you fail to play AVI in QuickTime, the video codec in AVI must be incompatible with the Apple player. Wanna a workaround? Now I will quickly walk you through how to make AVI playable in QuickTime on Mac.

The suggestion for you to play AVI files successfully on QuickTime is to convert AVI to QuickTime MOV format which is the best supported format and codec for QuickTime. The best choice to accomplish the conversion from AVI to QuickTime is Brorsoft Video Converter for Mac.

It supports converting all AVI files to QuickTime natively supported media format on Mac OS X (Mavericks and Mountain Lion included) with fast encoding speed and without quality loss. Besides AVI, it can also transcode more video file formats like MTS, MXF, MKV, FLV, VOB to QuickTime MOV video. If you want to encode AVI to QuickTime on Windows, turn to Brorsoft video Converter. Download the program and let’s start the conversion.

Guide on converting AVI to MOV on Mac OS X:

STEP 1. Import source videos

Launch this Mac AVI converter, add the .avi files by directly dragging them to the main window of this program. Or import files via clicking the Add button. Batch conversion is fully supported so you can add several videos at a time.



STEP 2. Choose MOV as output format

Click the format bar and choose output format. You can also choose "Common Video -> MOV – QuickTime (*.mov)" as the target format for widely use.



STEP 3. Start to encode AVI to QuickTime

When everything is to your satisfaction, click the Convert button to start the AVI video files to MOV conversion process. Now you have the output MOV files and can play, edit seamlessly on your Mac.

Additional Tips:

1. If you want to transocode AVI to MOV for Mac tools Final Cut Pro, iMovie, FCE, or iPad, iPhone, etc Apple devices you are recommended to directly choose Final Cut Pro, iMovie/FCE, iPad, iPhone presets provides by the best AVI to MOV Converter Mac.

2. To make good control of the output file size and quality, you can adjust all the items in the following interface, including codec, bit rate, frame rate, sample rate, and audio channels. To bear least quality loss, you may set A/V parameters according to the source AVI files.

3. Searched from forum, some users mentioned that we can make QuickTime play more AVI types by installing Perian component, but this only works on QuickTime with Mac OS X Snow Leopard or lower version, and it does work on QuickTime with Mac Mavericks, Mountain Lion and Lion. So, a wise choice is to re-wrap AVI to MOV as I recommended.

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Howto Import AVI files into Final Cut Pro X
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