How to Enable the Video & Audio Encoder Tools in Mac OS X Lion
Jan 16, 2012 - 11 Comments
New to Mac OS X Lion are several built-in media encoding abilities, allowing you to encode and convert video and audio to other formats right on the desktop. We just covered a tip on how to convert video to audio using the media encoder, but it turns out this feature isn’t enabled by default for all Mac users running Lion. If your Mac is missing the “Encode” menu options, turning them on is easy.
Enable Video & Audio Encoding Tools in Mac OS X
- Launch System Preferences from the Apple menu
- Click on “Keyboard” and then click on the “Keyboard Shortcuts” tab
- Select “Services” from the left, and scroll on the right for “Encode Selected Audio Files” and “Encode Selected Video Files”
- Check the box next to both of those options and close out of System Preferences
- Confirm encoding tools are now enabled by right-clicking on an audio or video file and looking for the Encode option
Now that the OS X Lion media encoder is enabled, you can right-click on media files to convert video to audio and audio to m4a. The resulting pop-up encoder window looks like this:
Conversion is surprisingly quick and produces high quality media files, give it a try.
I think it is only hidden on upgrades from Snow Leopard
My settings were already like that in Lion also. Thanks to this while I was in the dialog box I checked out the other options. In the Mission Control settings I found the way to customize swithcing between desktops similar to Spaces. Very cool.
I need to convert *.mkv to DVD.
Any ideas?
Thx
Neither myself or my wife have the Encode options to check in the Keyboard shortcuts/services menu
I don’t see the Encode options in the Keyboard shortcuts/services menu either
no such options in my system preferences either
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How to add encoders ?
There isn’t mp3 !
You can convert an m4a to mp3 using iTunes:
http://osxdaily.com/2009/12/03/convert-m4a-to-mp3/
Is there anyway to convert FLAC using this no?
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