To convert the AVI file on your Mac system to an MP4, I’m going to use the wonderful program VLC. It’s actually a video player that offers somewhat the same functionality as the playback portion of QuickTime Player, but supports just about every possible video format I’ve ever bumped into, even obscure Linux formats. AVI is also supported by the player but still some AVI files can’t be played directly using the basic free QuickTime player. QuickTime Pro comes with a feature to convert AVI to QuickTime MOV. However, you need a QuickTime Pro license key in order to get the pro features, which come with a cost.

AVI combines audio and video into a single file in a standard container to allow simultaneous playback. Its advatage is a simple architecture, due to which AVI runs on a number of different systems like Windows, Mac, Linux, Unix and is supported by all of the most popular web-browsers.' Actions: AVI Converter View other video file formats. How to convert avi to.mov QuickTime for Mac OSX 10.6? If you just transfer from Microsoft Windows 7, XP or Vista operation system to Mac OSX, you need Movie Maker avi/mpeg/wmv to mov Mac converter to help edit and convert avi to Quicktime format mov, which is popular with Mac and admissible by iMovie and FCE for Mac OSX.

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AVI is a multimedia container format introduced by Microsoft, it can be compressed by MJPEG, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, WMV, DivX. But unfortunately, QuickTime can only play AVI files with MJPEG codec. This is the most likely reason why Jacob can’t play AVI on QuickTime.

So, how to solve this problem? Since most of AVI files can't be played on QuickTime, can we try to convert AVI to a format that QuickTime can be compatible with, such as MOV format. [The MOV format is popular among Apple devices.] If you accept this idea, please keep reading.

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Convert AVI to MOV for QuickTime

We need to prepare 3 things to convert AVI to QuickTime.

1. f2fsoft free AVI to MOV converter (a tool helps us to do video conversion)

2. Computer

3. AVI files

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1. 180+ video/audio formats conversion. Such as convert WAV to MP3 or convert M4B to MP3…

2. HD Camcorder videos conversion. It can convert MTS to MP4 from Sony camcorder.

3. Change 2D video to 3D effect. We only need to prepare a pair of 3D glasses.

4. Compatible with Mac and Windows system.

Now, let’s free download it on the computer and start changing AVI to MOV.

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Step to convert AVI file to MOV

Step1 Load AVI file by clicking Add File button.

If you want to batch load AVI files at one time, click the inverted triangle drop-down button beside Add File button, and then click Add Folder.

Step2 Set output format MOV. On the bottom of the interface, click the Profile line, choose All Profile >MOV QuickTime Video as the output format in the pop-up list.

Step3 Edit video. Click Edit button beside Add File button on the top of the interface, there are Effect, Crop, Rotate, and Watermark options.

Click Effect button, there is a window where you can adjust the volume of the audio/video.

Click 3D button, there is another different window where you can change the 2D video to 3D.

Step4 Last, click the Convert button. Waiting for a few minutes, you will get the converted MOV files.

Now, you can load MOV files into QuickTime player.

(Where to find the converted MOV files? You just need to click Open Folder on the bottom of the interface and then you can see your MOV file.

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