How to Convert MP4 to iPad on Mac

2012-04-17 01:49:39 / Posted by Brian Fisher to Video Solution
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MP4 is officially reported to be on the supported formats list of iPad (iPad 2, new iPad included). So if you happen to have downloaded a bunch of MP4 videos from YouTube, Gmail etc. or have recorded some files in MP4 with your camcorder etc. you are able to enjoy these wonderful videos on your new iPad. Well, if you are unable to do this, you may get some MP4 files encoded with some unaccepted codec by iPad, or May the frame rate, bite rate or something else of the MP4 files is unmatched with iPad. Well, this article is written down in specialty to solve the playback problem with MP4 on iPad step by step.

At first, you need a professional MP4 to iPad Mac program to adjust your MP4 files to iPad files. And if you are confused with the codec, frame rate etc. you can use the iPad Video Converter for Mac (Snow Leopard, Lion included) listed here. This one offers an optimized preset for iPad, which means you can directly choose iPad as your output format, and this will automatically set the resolution, codec, frame rate, bite rate for you according to the iPad required file settings.

Add the source MP4 files to the iPad Mac converter

To add files to the converter, you can select "Add Video Files" from Import under the File menu to find the MP4 file you want to convert, or directly drag the target MP4 file to the MP4 to iPad Mac converter.

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Set iPad as output format

You can set "iPad" as your output format directly, the default setting works well. And if you prefer to set this by yourself, you can follow this: the best video format of iPad is 1280x720 MP4 (H.264/AVC video codec, AAC audio codec) videos. BTW, if you use new iPad and prefer to 1080p output video, set the resolution to 1080p.

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Start MP4 to iPad conversion on Mac OS X

Hit the button of "Convert" and leave this smart MP4 to iPad Mac Video Converter to do the rest for you!

This Mac iPad Video Converter provides a series of useful settings such as crop, trim, merge, and video effect like brightness, contrast and saturation. So you can edit your MP4 videos before you start the Mac conversion. You can learn detailed info in the Guide of iPad Video Converter for Mac. And the converter also works on MacBook, MacBook Pro, MacBook Air, iMac.

MP4 to iPad on Mac