How to Edit and Convert MOV Video

MOV format is editable on Mac and videos in MOV format are only supported by QuickTime Player. If you want to edit the MOV videos on the computer employing Windows (Windows 8) operating system, one workable way is to convert the MOV files into AVI format which is easier to handle in Windows. But now with Aimersoft Video Editor, you can edit MOV files freely and directly in Windows (Windows 8 included). Follow me to check how to edit MOV video.

1 Download and install Video Editor

2Load target MOV files

Click Import to locate your target MOV videos into Video Editor after you have installed and launched the MOV editor successfully.

3Edit MOV files

To edit MOV completely and effectively, Video Editor is the best choice, which provides two professional editing panels to fully meet your different editing requirement.

Timeline Panel

If you want to merge, split, copy, paste, etc. the MOV video files. The timeline panel without doubt will offer the most precise editing for you.

Further edit your movie

But if you would like to adjust the movie affects, add a picture in picture effect, apply special movie effects, etc., you should choose the corresponding editing box to perform the editing.

Merge MOV files

Drag the video clips in any different formats into the timeline and all the added video clips will be merged as a large video automatically.

Split MOV file

Select a clip in the time line, drag the Indicator to where you want to split and click the "Split" button. Then the clip will be split into two.

4Export and save MOV file

This MOV video editor offers many export options for you to save your edited MOV files. For example, you can save the movie as MP4, WMV, AVI, FLV, etc., convert it to fit your mobile devices, upload it to YouTube and even burn the movie to DVD. It's definitely up to you.