Additional information about AVI file format
AVI (Audio Video Interleaved) is a multimedia container format introduced by Microsoft, allows synchronous audio-with-video playback. MOV (QuickTime Movie) is a multimedia container that contains one or more tracks, developed by Apple, used natively by the QuickTime framework. The file extensions can be.mov,.qt. If the file is capable of being converted by quicktime when you open it it should just automatically start a conversion process. There may be a way to try to manually kick it off, but never tried, honestly I don’t use QuickTime for my conversions.
| File extension | .AVI |
| File category | VIDEO |
| Additional information about | AVI is an abbreviation for Audio Video Interleave and it is a multimedia container format introduced by Microsoft as part of its video for windows software in 1992 |
| Additional information | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audio_Video_Interleave |
| Useful links | http://pcsupport.about.com/od/fileextensions/f/avifile.htm http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/AVI-file-Audio-Video-Interleaved-file |
| File conversion | Convert a file to AVI |
| Developer | Microsoft |
| Associated programs | Apple Quick Time Player Video LAN VLC Media Player All Player Microsoft Windows Media Player |
Additional information about MOV file format
Avi To Quicktime Converter
| File extension | .MOV |
| File category | VIDEO |
| Additional information about | MOV is a multimedia container file containing one or more tacks with each one storing a particular type of data such as video, audio or subtitles. |
| Additional information | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QuickTime_File_Format |
| Useful links | http://whatis.techtarget.com/fileformat/MOV-Movie-QuickTime-for-Microsoft-Windows |
| File conversion | Convert a file to MOV |
| Developer | Apple |
| Associated programs | Apple Quick Time Player Ciber Link Power Director Roxio Easy Media Creater |
Video files come in various formats, and sometimes, you need to convert them from one format to another to make them playable on multiple platforms smoothly. For instance, AVI which is a Windows standard multimedia format will work better on Windows when compared to MOV format. And, QuickTime MOV will work better on Mac than AVI.
Avi To Quicktime For Mac
So how to convert AVI to QuickTime MOV on Windows or Mac?
Avi To Quicktime Mac
There are many online Video Converting tools which can convert AVI to MOV. You can download the install the software on Windows or Mac system, and then convert .avi to QuickTime MOV. Here are the steps which are usually involved to convert the video files:
- You can either drag and drop the AVI video file to the AVI to MOV Video Converter. Or else, you can click on Add Files button to add the video file to the software.
- You can also add more than one file for conversion if you have to convert multiple AVI files
- The next step is to select the output format for the video which is MOV. You have to select MOV format for the imported AVI files to be converted to MOV.
- Finally, hit the Convert button to convert .avi to .mov format
That’s about it. In a very easy way, you can convert AVI video to MOV format. But make sure to use reliable Video Converting tool to convert the video file. This is because using an unreliable tool can corrupt AVI file and leave it useless.
Unfortunately, many users do not check for the authenticity of the software, and simply use it to convert video file. If you are one among them, and your AVI file got corrupted after conversion, then make use of AVI Repair software to safely fix the corrupted file. This is a read-only tool which doesn’t harm the original file, rather it extracts content from the file, fixes it, and saves the content in a new healthy file. It repairs even broken, damaged, inaccessible, or unplayable AVI files in just few minutes.