How to Convert MOV to MP4 on Mac OS X?

About MOV and MP4

MOV, is a computer video file format (.mov, .qt) that was developed by Apple Inc. It is used natively by the QuickTime application. The format specifies a multimedia container file that contains one or more tracks, each of which stores a particular type of data: audio, video, effects, or text (e.g. for subtitles).

MP4, originally MPEG4, is a file format that is commonly used to store media types defined by the ISO/IEC Moving Picture Experts Group. Being an international standard, has more support. Especially true on hardware devices, such as iPhone, iPod, iPad, Sony PSP, various DVD players, etc.

In order to play your MOV videos smoothly on Mac, or for your digital players like iPod, iPhone, PSP, etc, you need convert MOV files to MP4 format on Mac first. Here we`ll introduces a viable solutions for converting QuickTime MOV to MP4 on Mac.

How to convert MOV to MP4 on Mac OS X?

Download a Mac MOV to MP4 converter

Daniusoft Video Converter for Mac, also called Mac MOV to MP4 Converter, is a featured third party video converter which is designed for Mac users. Include Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard on iMac, Mac Pro, MacBook, MacBook Pro, MacBook Air, etc.

Just free download this Mac MOV to MP4 Converter, install and run it, then start the trip of converting now!

Free download Mac MOV to MP4 Converter

Note: If you are using Windows and want to convert MOV to MP4, you can refer to Video Converter for Windows.

Import your MOV files to the program

Go to the menu bar, click "File" – "Add Video/Audio files" to load your MOV files you want to convert. Or simply drag and drop MOV to add them to this Mac MOV to MP4 program.

convert MOV to MP4 Mac with Daniusoft Mac MOV to MP4 converter – MOV to MP4 screen

Select "MP4" as output format

Click the device icon behind the video file in the video list, then you can select the MP4 format as the output format. This Mac MOV to MP4 converter provide two MP4 formats, "H.264 MP4" and "MPEG-4 MP4".

convert MOV to MP4 Mac with Daniusoft Mac MOV to MP4 converter – MP4 output format

If you want to put the output MOV file on your PSP, iPod, iPhone or other popular portable device, you can select an output format according to your device name!

Start to convert MOV to MP4 on Mac OS X

convert MOV to MP4 Mac with Daniusoft Mac MOV to MP4 converter – AVI to MP4 conversion

Hit "start" button in the bottom right hand corner, when the conversion is done, you can put the MP4 files on your iPhone, iPod, iPad, PSP, edit them in iMovie, Final Cut Pro.

Tips: 1. For Windows user, this MOV to MP4 guide may help you.

2. If you have piles of favorite DVDs and MOV videos your want to convert, check this packed Mac DVD and Video Converter, which is the most powerful converter of Daniusoft Mac by far.

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