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

June 13, 2013 6:33 PM / Posted by Brian Fisher to Convert AVI
Follow @BrianRainFisher

Why convert AVI to MOV (QuickTime supported format)?

Maybe you have a ton of AVI files on your hard drive, either from a digicam, or downloaded from the internet. Maybe you want to edit AVI in iMovie, or play these files on your iPad, iPod or iPhone, etc.,. Apple, unfortunately only plays a couple types of seldom-used AVI file: "Motion JPEG (M-JPEG) up to 35 Mbps, 1280 by 720 pixels, 30 frames per second, audio in ULAW, PCM stereo audio in .avi file format". But if your AVI files are the much more common AVI file type, encoded with a codec that QuickTime can't recognize, like DivX, XviD, you'll need to convert AVI to MOV or other iOS and Mac OS compatible formats.

If you have QuickTime Pro installed, you can convert AVI to MOV directly. Just choose MOV as the output format by selecting "Save as". If you don't have QuickTime Pro installed or QT pro can't convert the AVI successfully, you can use this professional yet easy-to-use Video Converter for Mac to do the AVI to MOV Mac converting task. This Mac app enables you to convert any video or audio in all popular formats with ease.

Double click the .dmg image to install the converter Mac and follow the step-by-step tutorial. You can utilize this AVI converter on all major Mac OS X operating systems like Mountain Lion, Lion, and Snow Leopard.

Convert AVI videos to QuickTime MOV on Mac

Load AVI videos to this Mac AVI to MOV Converter

To do so, you can directly drag & drop AVI files to the Video Converter for Mac. Or you can head to the "File" menu, choose "Load Media Files" to locate the AVI files into the software.

Batch conversion is available, so you are able to add more than one file at one time. By the way, if you wanna combine several files into one for better enjoyment, you can enable "Merge" option at the bottom of the main interface.

AVI to MOV for Mac

Select "MOV" as the output format

Now you need to choose MOV format from the format tray and all your imported AVI files will be converted to MOV files.

AVI to MOV on Mac

If you want to put the output MOV files on your iPad, iPhone, iPod, Apple TV or other popular portable devices for playback, you can choose the presets for iOS devices offered in the Device category of format tray. Because the app has optimized the video settings for the output files, so the video could fit on your devices perfectly. What's more, if you select any item from the Apple Devices as the output format, the app could import the output video files directly to your iTunes on Mac (Mountain Lion, Lion included).

AVI to MOV on Mac

Note: The Video converter Mac additionally offers you some useful edit functions for making your videos more enjoyable. You can split, crop, add cool effects to your media files or capture your favorite scene of the video. To learn more details, you can go to the User Guide of Video Converter for Mac.

Start to convert AVI to MOV Mac

Hit the "Convert" button and let this smart Mac Video Converter do the rest for you! This video converter was specifically designed for Mac OS users. It performs greatly on iMac, Mac Pro, MacBook, MacBook Pro, MacBook Air either with Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, Mac OS X Lion or Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard.

When the conversion is done, you can play the output MOV videos in QuickTime, edit them in iMovie, Final Cut Pro, or put them on your iPod, new iPad 2 for playback whenever you like. It is cool, right? Have a nice media experience then!

QuickTime supported formats:

Video formats: QuickTime Movie (.mov), MPEG-4 (.mp4, .m4v), MPEG-2 (OS X Lion or later), MPEG-1, 3GPP, 3GPP2,AVI, AVCHD (OS X Mountain Lion only), DV etc

Video codecs: MPEG-2 (OS X Lion or later), MPEG-4 (Part 2), H.264, H.263, H.261 etc.

Audio formats: iTunes Audio (.m4a, .m4b, .m4p), MP3, Core Audio (.caf), AIFF, AU, SD2 , WAV, SND, AMR etc

Audio codecs: AAC (MPEG-4 Audio), HE-AAC, MP3, AMR Narrowband, Apple Lossless.

More media formats supported by QuickTime Player: Visit here

Daniel J 2012-12-15 14:33
works fine for my mountain lion retina display 15inch
Dalek 2012-10-16 19:07
To make gifs.
Dipikaagrawal9 2012-07-05 14:24
wow.. this information is quite an interesting one.. and really thanks for this information,i have been facing such problem and now hope that i wont face any problem and watch my favorite videos more and more, without any problem.
Ramita Rai 2012-07-05 10:50
This software was awesome. It was so easy to use and the interface was so user friendly. I am not show expert of using computers but i did the conversion with it so easily. It sooo good!!!
Rajib Rai 2012-07-05 10:41
This .avi to quicktime .mov converter has made converting media files so easy. It is the software that i was search on the internet for so long. At last, I got it here. Now, my converting .avi to .mov is quite easy so far.
Ritesh Mahato12 2012-07-05 09:39
Wow it's wonderful video.great article. this will come in handy with my new macbook pro!. I like this video so much.Hope others will like it too because it is so useful video. Thank you.
Karim 2012-06-19 12:22
Maybe because mov works better in mac os x?
Master William 2012-06-19 12:13
Why? I am honestly wondering why people would want to convert avi to mov? Honestly... WHY!?
Kenneth M 2012-06-19 12:04
great article. this will come in handy with my new macbook pro!
Mom 2011-11-27 05:40
Thank you!!! I've been desperate to transfer my .avi files from my FlipCam to my new MacBook Air so I can edit them to no avail. This article and the software worked! If only I would have stumbled on this first I would have been spared a lot of frustration.

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

Why convert AVI to MOV (QuickTime supported format)?