There are a good number of Apple product users out there. Well, the number of Apple users is increasing due to Apples product design, exclusive services and technology. But still, their number is very lower compare to the Windows users. So, whenever you are dealing with multimedia files, there are good chances that you will be unable to use it on your Apple device.
If you have a Mac, then you can watch the video files by downloading the right codec and installing them. But when you will try to work with them other than just watching them, you have to have them on the right format. Just downloading codec will not work then.
If you have iPhone or iPod, you will have to use iTunes to get video files into your device. But you can play only certain video formats. iPhone and iPod supports only QuickTime and MPEG-4 file format which can be recognized by the extensions MOV, MP4 and M4V. So, if you got an AVI or WMV file, you will have to convert the AVI or
WMV to QuickTime (MOV), MP4 or M4V file to play it on iPhone or iPod.
Converters are readily available on the Internet. You can find a lot of free converter as well. Not all of them are reliable. Some of them are totally fakes. Some of them contain virus or worm. Some of them are useful but has too much limitation or very few options or very view video format support. Some can actually convert to a lot of video formats but those conversions are open for question as they dont play after the conversion process. But you will find good ones as well but they will have limitations too. *~!
For example, Pazera FLV to AVI converter is a freeware. Version 1.3 is available. It gives you a lot of options to choose from. You can manually tweak options like audio video bit-rate, FPS (Frame per Second), resolution, codec etc. But the problem is it supports only FLV to AVI or MPEG format. So, you cannot
convert WMV to QuickTime or AVI to MP4 etc. with this one. Another problem, which is the big one, is that it does not support Mac.
So, Mac users have to find software for them. A good thing about Windows software is that there are so many users that if you find a converter, very good chance is there that you will find a lot of review for them. From the review you can have a vague idea of the converters performance. For Mac it is not entirely true. And it is better to use an already reliable and established converter. In that case, your chances of wasting time and money are low and you will get quality service.
Wondershares Video Converter for Mac is an ideal converter for the Mac users as it supports a long list of video formats. You dont have to face the frustration that you can convert Quicktime to WMV but dont know
how to convert WMV to Quicktime. It supports wide range of video formats both for input and output. It is fast, easy to use and user friendly. Using this converter you can edit your videos as well. It lets you use the simple editor where you can cut, crop, trim, merge etc. to give your video last minute tweak before or after conversion.
You can download the trial version first to see its performance. You can find it on the following address:
http://www.applemacvideo.com/mac-video-converter.html.
