General Discussion - Import AVI to iMovie, importing AVI files into iMovie Mac sarahsarah1225 - Tue Apr 19, 2011 2:49 am Post subject: Import AVI to iMovie, importing AVI files into iMovie MacImporting AVI to iMovie is not straight-forward when you are attempt to drag and drop the AVI files into iMovie for editing. iMovie supports videos well in MPEG-4, DV, MOV. Mac Movie Converter is a perfect application for converting AVI files to Mac video types, including Divx and Xvid encoded files.
MPG is the most popular video format, no matter used on Mac or Windows, but not every video player can play all kinds of .MPG files, for example, QuickTime can play MPEG-1 and MPEG-4 files, but not for MPEG-2 video, Windows Media Player can only play MPEG-1 files. If QuickTime can't play the .MPG files, let alone iMovie imports MPG.
Matroska is usually found as .MKV files (matroska video), .MKA files (matroska audio) and .MKS files (subtitles) and .MK3D files (stereoscopic/3D video). It is intended to serve as a universal format for storing common multimedia content, like movies or TV shows.
If you have some MKV files and want to share or edit them with FCP, FCE, iMovie on Mac, you should convert MKV to other format such as MP4, MOV, DV, AVI, WMV etc.
Mac MKV Converter is the best MKV Converter for Mac users to convert MKV to MP4, convert MKV to MOV, convert MKV to AVI, beside these, Mac MKV Converter allows you convert MKV to other popular video formats such as *.asf, *.mpg, *.3gp, *.3g2, *.m4v, *.vob, HD video formats: (*.mp4, *.mov, *.mpg, *.ts, *.wmv, *.avi) etc on Mac, just you like.
This MKV Converter for Mac also enbales you set some editing functions to make you MKV videos different from others. The editing functions including merge videos, trim and crop video, add watermark etc.
After converting MKV on Mac in high speed, you can enjoy your videos on Apple TV, iPad, iPod, iPhone, PS3, Xbox 360, Wii, Samsung Galaxy Tab, HTC Evo 4G, Motorola Droid X, Samsung Galaxy S and so on anytime anywhere.
Now, the follow is how to convert MKV with MKV Converter for Mac.
Step 1. Add videos into this Mac MKV Converter
After downloading and running Mac MKV Converter, click "Add" button to upload MKV files which you want to convert from your Mac.
Step 2. Choose the output format and set the destination
In this step, you can chooose the output format form the Format drop-down list. Here you can choose MP4, MOV, AVI, MPG, FLV, etc.