How to Convert Mini DV to MOV/M4V/MP4?

Why convert mini DV to MOV or M4V or MP4?

With its fun and broad usage, a Mini DV can be used to record those best memories or important events. It's easy to turn it on and press ‘REC', but when you wanna put those digital videos onto your Mac, you may have no idea how to do so. That's because these DV files are usually incompatible with your Mac so that it's hard for you to transfer mini DV to Mac. The best solution is to convert DV files to a "Mac-friendly" format, like MOV and M4V. In case like this, you just need a smart mini DV to Mac tool.

How to transfer mini DV to Mac?

Video Converter for Mac gives you the ability to convert between most of popular video formats (i.e. MOV, M4V, MP4, MKV, MPG, etc.). You only need few steps to transfer mini DV to Mac (Snow Leopard, Lion included).

Step One: free download Video Converter for Mac, install and open it.

Step Two: Click "Add Video Files" from the "File" menu to load your.avi file; if you have several clips and you want to put them into one, just tick "merge into one file", and the software will merge those loaded .avi files into one automatically.

Step Three: Click the device icon behind the video file in the video list, then you can select the output format for each added file as your need.

Step Four: Press 'Start' and get your yearning video in no time! Also, this Mac Video Converter software contains trimming, cropping, rotation and adding effects. You can edit your AVI or M4V file as you like. It must be a lot fun to have a personalized video!

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What is a mini DV?

Digital Video (DV) is a digital video format created by Sony, JVC, Panasonic and other video camera producers, and launched in 1995. Using digital technology, Mini DV captures video and audio on high-density cassette tapes. This format is very popular, as it delivers sound and video that is decidedly sharp and high quality. Its lightweight and compact size wins the heart of all walks of life.

What is an .mov file?

An MOV file is a QuickTime media container format. It is a file extension used by the QuickTime-wrapped files. The format was created by Apple Computer to work with multimedia files. MOV is a container format and can contain video, animation, graphics, 3D and virtual reality (VR) content or text (for subtitles, for example).

What is an .mp4 file?

MP4 is short for ‘MPEG-4'. It is a movies or video clip that uses MPEG-4 compression, a standard developed by the moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG), which is commonly used for sharing video files on the Internet. The MPEG-4 video format uses separate compression for audio and video tracks; video is compressed with MPEG-4 video encoding; audio is compressed using AAC compression, the same type of audio compression used in .aac files.

What is an .m4v file?

An .m4v file is a MPEG-4 file extension used for videos downloaded from the Apple iTunes store; includes TV episodes, full-length Movies, and music videos, etc. It is similar to an .mp4 file, but may be copy-protected using Apple's FairPlay DRM copyright protection. To play a protected M4V file, your computer must be authorized (using iTunes) with the account that was used to purchase the video. Unprotected M4V files may be recognized and played by other video players by changing the file extension from ".m4v" to ".mp4."