Tip about converting WMV to MOV on MAC without iMovie

After downloading a funny video from YouTube, or creating a video in Movie Maker, you would always want to optimize it by editing in iMovie, but what kind of software can be a good assistant ? With high speed and excellent quality on Mac OS X, Aimersoft Mac WMV Converter can solve your problem for converting between popular video formats including WMV, MOV.

What’s more, this splendid WMV to MOV Converter for Mac enables you to trim and crop video clips, set video effects, preview in real-time, and even add watermark onto your video.

This is the step-by-step guide to show you how to convert WMV to MOV on Mac.
Firstly, free download and install Mac WMV to MOV Converter, and then run it.

Step 1: Import your WMV files to this Mac WMV to MOV Converter

You can then directly drag your WMV files into it or go to menu bar, or select "File", then choose "Add Video Files"; you can delete one or more files as you like and preview your files before conversion.


Step2: Choose output format "MOV" and output folder

Click "format" at the bottom of the interface to choose the output format, here we choose "Common Video", then "MOV - QuickTime Movie".
Expand the "Output" panel so you can select an output directory.



PS: you can press"Setting" button on the right of the thumbnail to customize the output file settings as you like, you may change the sample rate, channel (stereo or mono) and bit rate.
If you have no idea, you do not need to alter, the default settings work well too.

Step3: Click "Start" to convert your WMV file to MOV.
If you have no use for editing WMV videos, just begin to convert WMV to MOV on Mac by clicking “start” button.

Tips:
What is WMV?
WMV stands for Windows Media Video. It is a compressed video file format for several proprietary codecs developed by Microsoft. The original codec, known as WMV, was originally designed for Internet streaming applications, as a competitor to Real Video.

Why WMV to MOV?
WMV is used for both streaming and downloading content via the Internet. You can playback and manage the files of this format on Windows Media Player. However, for the Mac users, they have habit of using QuickTime and iMovie, and MOV format is compatible with both Macintosh and Windows platforms, so the conversion from WMV to MOV is necessary.