How to convert AVI to QuickTime MOV on Mac (OS X 10.6 included)

May 29, 2013 2:20 pm / Posted by Ian Lam to Video Conversion

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Wnat to convert avi files to quicktime mov on mac for playback avi with QuickTime Player on mac, edit avi with iMovie, or tranfer avi files to FCP or FCE for editing? Doremisoft Mac Video Converter is also an excellent Mac AVI to MOV converter, with this application, converting AVI to MOV on Mac.

Knowledge of AVI files
AVI stands for Audio Video Interleave. You may think that AVI is a video format that has everything including most video and audio specs are pre-defined, however, AVI is actually a multimedia container format that allows synchronous audio-with-video playback, a package that contains both video and audio, but you don’t actually know what’s inside. Therefore, AVI files from different sources may have different contents inside.

Knowledge of Quicktime MOV files

A MOV file is a QuickTime media container format. That is, it can store audio and video data. In this article we will talk about the simple task of playing back MOV files on a computer. This guide is noticeably shorter than our other playback guides, but covers everything you need to know to play QuickTime files video Container format for QuickTime.

Follow the below three intuitive steps to convert AVI to MOV files on mac with Doremisoft Mac Video Converter:

Click the “Add File” button, and it will open a window, where browse your hard drive to locate allAVI video you want to add . 

After you have imported the video AVI file. In the list of Profiles (Profile field), Choose the "Common Video > MOV" to set mov format as the output file.

Click the "Clip" button to open the AVI video clipping window. Through clipping, you can get segment from AVI source video you want. And this AVI converter supports clipping several times. 

When the above steps are done, Click the "START" button to start the AVI to MOV conversion on Mac. The process bar will show you how much has finished and during conversion, you can preview the output video with preview window.The spending time will depend on the quantity of you wmv files you convert. But the quality of output mov files is best and satisfactory.