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Convert AVI to MOV

November 16th, 2009 - How to, OS X Apps, Tips & Tricks

The easiest free way to convert an AVI file to MOV format in Mac OS X is by using the Perian plugin for QuickTime, here’s a step by step guide of what you’ll need to do:

Convert AVI files to MOV within Mac OS X

First you’ll need to get Perian, it is a free open source QuickTime component that adds support for many popular video formats.
* Download Perian and install it

After you have installed Perian, you’ll use Apple’s own QuickTime Player (we’re using the Snow Leopard version in this walkthrough)
* Open the AVI movie you want converted to MOV within QuickTime
* From the File menu, select “Save As”
convert avi to mov
* In the pop-up save menu, select ‘movie’ and as you can see the file type will be .mov
* Click “Save”
* Now just wait until the AVI is converted to MOV, the time it takes will depend on the file size, but for most files it is pretty fast.

That’s it! You have just converted an AVI file to MOV format!

If anyone knows any easier ways to convert avi to mov than this (that are also free), please post them in the comments!

Posted by: Manish Patel

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Comments: 9

Comment from Mr Flawless
Time: November 16, 2009, 10:14 am

You Forgot to mention this will double the size of the file

Comment from Austin
Time: November 16, 2009, 10:29 am

MPEG Streamclip and Handbrake are both great video converting software that run on OS X.

Comment from JimiMat
Time: November 16, 2009, 10:52 am

Handbrake (http://handbrake.fr/) is a great free converter tool. Not sure if it is much faster or easier than Quicktime, but it works very well (for many formats).

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Comment from Tony
Time: November 16, 2009, 6:02 pm

MPEG Streamclip: http://www.squared5.com/

Comment from D. Rolling Kearney
Time: November 18, 2009, 11:52 pm

Evom rocks!!!! I have tried a million apps, but this is THE best!

http://thelittleappfactory.com/evom/

Comment from Grudedeng
Time: November 23, 2009, 8:19 pm

Very useful post!

If you want to convert between popular video formats such as AVI, MKV, FLV, MOV, MP4, WMV, etc, you may also try this all-in-one Video Converter for Mac:

http://macdvdripper.softdiggs.com/video-converter-for-mac.php

It can also convert HD videos such as TS, MTS, M2TS files.

Comment from bArt
Time: February 7, 2010, 7:34 am

Well I was looking for this simple and fast converted and now found it, thanks.

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