How to Convert WMV to QuickTime on Mac
2012-02-14 03:04:38 /
Posted by Brian Fisher to Video Solution
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WMV’s compatibility with Mac is not very good. So for Mac users, it’s a bit awkward to play WMV in QuickTime. If you directly drag a WMV file to QuickTime for playback, there’ll pop up a note to tell you WMV is not in a format that QuickTime Player understands. Well, can’t QuickTime play the WMV multimedia content? No, actually, you can manage to let it do what you want.
You can extent QuickTime by using codec components so that you can import or play a variety of additional media formats such as WMV. But this way works very complicated, and it would charge you $29.00. In this way, although you can watch WMV files in QuickTime, you can’t play WMV for other uses, such on edit in iMovie or Final Cut Pro, no organization with iTunes, even no sync to iPhone etc.
Here, I strongly recommend you a powerful yet easy-to-use WMV to QuickTime converter Mac to help you completely improve WMV’s poor compatibility on Mac so that you can play WMV on Mac (Snow Leopard, Lion included) at will.
This straightforward tutorial here mainly introduces how to play WMV in QuickTime with this strongly-recommended Video Converter for Mac in a few steps.
Put WMV files on WMV to QuickTime converter Mac
To import WMV files, you have two ways. One is to drag WMV files to this app. The other is to click "File">"Add Video Files" to add WMV file. Take note that you can import multi videos for batch conversion.
Select a QuickTime-friendly format
In the output format list, select a QuickTime-friendly format as the output format. As known to all, MOV is recognized as the main format for QuickTime movies. So here, you can select MOV. What’s more, if you have multi videos to convert into MOV, you can tick "Apply Current Setting to All files".
Note: This app gives you the ability to set some video parameters like video Resolution and edit your WMV files before WMV to QuickTime conversion. Just enter the editing interface to do this job. If you want to merge several WMV files into one, you can tick “Merge into One File” in the main interface.
Start WMV to convert WMV to QuickTime Mac
Press "Start" button to convert WMV to QuickTime Mac. It will take a while, which fully depends on the size of your files.
Knowledge sharing:
The video formats that QuickTime Player natively supports are as follows:
QuickTime Movie (.mov), MPEG-4 (.QuickTime, .m4v), MPEG-1, 3GPP, 3GPP2, AVI, DV
And the QuickTime-supportable audio files are below:
iTunes Audio (.m4a, .m4b, .m4p), MP3, Core Audio (.caf), AIFF, AU, SD2, WAV, SND, AMR
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