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Movies (quicktime or AVI) with alpha support My memory is a bit hazy, but I'm certain I've used movies (which had an alpha channel) that worked in Powerpoint 2010 although I can't remember if I used Quicktime files or whether they were AVIs.

Why do you need to convert MOV to AVI? Well, as we know, MOV is an Apple QuickTime format and is widely used for saving video files with compression. Today, many digital cameras and camcorders capture videos in the MOV format. However, MOV is a Mac friendly video format and is not supported by Windows-based applications like Windows Movie Maker, Windows Media Player, Windows DVD Maker, etc. If you want to play or edit MOV in Windows without any troubles, you'd better convert MOV to AVI, a Windows preferred format.

But QuickTime Player only natively plays AVI (Motion JPEG), is incapable of playing all.avi movies, otherwise you should install plug-in like Perian, which is a handy free program that enables your Mac to play almost any movie format including AVI files. Matt Ryan of The Frugal Geek blog on Lockergnome shows you how to play AVI files in QuickTime on your Mac. There are a number of. Fix 1: Use an AVI Compatible Media Player on Mac. While QuickTime might not have the needed codec for AVI, there are plenty of other media players that can play AVI on Mac instead. Here are some of these popular AVI players that you can consider using: VLC Media Player. Wondershare UniConverter. The VLC player offers the option to automatically repair damaged files with an.AVI extension, considering that in this case we have videos in.Mov format, we will need to use the VLC function to convert the format to.AVI and thus the player can perform the automatic repairs.

To convert MOV files to AVI, a video converter is needed. Aimersoft Video Converter Ultimate (or Video Converter Ultimate for Mac) is just the right choice for you. With it, you can easily convert QuickTime MOV video to AVI with fast conversion speed and excellent output video quality. No technical skills are required. Simply follow the intuitive interface and you can get all your work done in a few mouse clicks.

Download MOV to AVI Converter:

How to convert QuickTime MOV files to AVI format

Note that here the screenshots of Video Converter for Windows are used to show you the detailed steps to complete the whole conversion. If you're using a Mac, please refer to Convert MOV to AVI on Mac.

1Import MOV videos to the program

Run Video Converter Ultimate and click Add Files to add the QuickTime MOV files from your local drive, digital cameras, USB devices, etc. for conversion. Or first locate the MOV videos you want to convert and directly drag them to the software interface to load them. Batch conversion is supported so you can add multiple files. And if you want to convert all the added MOV videos to a single AVI file, simply tick 'Merge all videos into one file'.

2 Edit your videos

A built-in video editor is provided, allowing you to crop video frame sizes so as to remove the black bars, trim videos to get the part you need, adjust video effects for a better visual effect, rotate videos to get the right position, add text/image watermarks either for fun or copyright protection, insert plug-in subtitles for a better illustration, etc.

3 Set the output format and directory

To change MOV to AVI format, simply click Output Format and choose AVI from Format > Video >AVI as the output video format. If you don't like the default setting, click Settings to adjust the video resolution, frame rate, audio channels, bit rates etc. Meanwhile, click Output Folder to choose a folder to save the converted AVI files.

4Convert MOV video to AVI

Now you've come to the last step: click the Convert button to start converting from MOV format to AVI. Wait for the conversion to be done and click Open Folder to get all the converted videos. Bingo, that's done. After that, you can view your videos anywhere you like.

Here is video tutorial on how to convert QuickTime MOV videos to AVI:

Related Glossary:

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  • MOV - is a video Container format for QuickTime. The multimedia container file can hold multiple tracks, audio, video, effects or text files. Each Track, regardless of type, has its own digitally-encoded media stream using a specific Codec.
  • AVI - stands for Audio Video Interleave, is a Container format used by Microsoft's Video for Windows multimedia framework.
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Convert AVI to QuickTime MOV, MP4 to Solve 'QuickTime Won't Play AVI' with AVI to QuickTime Converter

Overview

When mentioned QuickTime AVI, a large number of QuickTime users reflexively asked 'Can QuickTime play AVI video files', 'Does QuickTime play AVI files in the latest OS X 10.9 Mavericks', 'Why my QuickTime won't play AVI videos', 'I feel confused why sometimes I can play AVI in QuickTime, but sometimes I can't' or 'What should I do to make QuickTime play AVI, convert AVI to QuickTime more popular formats'.

This article aims to answer these questions clearly and also introduce an ideal way to play AVI in QuickTime.

Why QuickTime Won't Play AVI Files?

AVI (Audio Video Interleaved) is a container format designed by Microsoft to wrap audio and video stream together. The video in AVI file can be compressed by many kinds of codec, such as MJPEG (Motion JPEG), MPEG-1, MPEG-2, DivX, XviD, WMV and others. To play all AVI files, your player must support all of these codecs. So far, no matter you are a Windows user or a Mac user, QuickTime only natively plays AVI files with MJPEG video.

As a great open-source QuickTime component, Perian is the saver to allow QuickTime to play all kinds of AVI videos for Mac users. Unfortunately, the latest version 1.2.3 of Perian is not compatible with Mac OS X Mavericks (10.9), Mountain Lion (10.8) and Lion (10.7).

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In order to solve 'QuickTime won't play AVI' on Mac (Mavericks included) and Windows, it is best to convert AVI to QuickTime more popular formats like MP4, MOV with some professional AVI to QuickTime Converter.

How to Convert AVI to QuickTime?

Although there are a great many of AVI to QuickTime Converter now, a lot of them only support to convert few kinds of AVI files to QuickTime recognized formats. And what's worse, the converted AVI files are still not identified by QuickTime when you add them to QuickTime. Furthermore, most of these Converters are only compatible with either Mac or Windows.

Faasoft AVI to QuickTime Converter is an all-in-one AVI to QuickTime Converter which not only supports various kinds of AVI videos, but also absolutely ensures the converted files are compatible with QuickTime. Better yet, Faasoft AVI to QuickTime Converter has two versions: Mac version and Windows version.

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Except for the above features as a professional AVI to QuickTime Converter, Faasoft AVI to QuickTime Converter also has the following powerful functions to make your digital life easy, fast and comfortable:

  • Besides converting various AVI videos to QuickTime popular formats, Faasoft AVI to QuickTime Converter supports changing nearly all kinds of videos formats like MKV, WMV, FLV, MXF, 3GP, AVCHD, OGV, WebM to MP4, MOV for playback in QuickTime.
  • Supports converting almost all audio files like WAV, WMA, AU, DTS, MPC, MP2, OGG, RA, etc to QuickTime recognized MP3, AAC, AIFF, M4A and Apple LossLess.
  • Supports extracting audio files from almost all video formats if you just need the voice and want to remove the image.
  • Supports downloading online videos and converting the downloaded videos to play them in QuickTime, Windows Media Player, iTunes, iPod, iPad, iPhone, Android and BlackBerry etc.
  • Supports editing videos and audios like trim, crop, add subtitle/watermark/effect, adjust bitrate/volume, change channel, merge files, split by chapter, rotate, etc.

Steps to Convert AVI to QuickTime Supported Formats

Free download and install the ideal AVI to QuickTime Converter, and then follow the detailed guide to convert AVI to QuickTime MP4, MOV.

Step 1 Import AVI files to AVI to QuickTime Converter
Click 'Add File' button to add AVI file to this AVI to QuickTime Converter. Or just drag and drop your AVI file to the main interface of the program.

This wonderful AVI to QuickTime Converter also supports batch converting AVI files at once.

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Step 2 Select MOV or MP4 as output format
Click the 'Profile' drop-down button and choose 'MOV QuickTime Video (*.mov)' or 'MP4 MPEG-4 Video (*.mp4)' as the output formats from the 'General Video' category.

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To convert AVI to QuickTime audio format, choose MP3, AAC, M4A, AIFF and Apple LossLess as the output formats from the 'General Video' category.

Step 3 Start AVI to QuickTime conversion
Click the big 'Convert' button to convert AVI to QuickTime MP4, MOV.

Play AVI Files on Mac or Windows without Conversion

If you just want to play AVI files without converting AVI to QuickTime, Faasoft AVI to QuickTime Converter is the best choice as well. Apart from as a powerful AVI to QuickTime Converter, Faasoft AVI to QuickTime Converter is a free Video Player which supports playing and previewing videos in full screen. It can not only play AVI files but also play video files including standard and high definition videos such as MP4, MOV, MKV, WMV, ect, and filmed and recorded videos in AVCHD and more. The downside is this AVI to QuickTime Converter is designed for computer and not compatible with mobile devices, so it's impossible to play AVI files and other videos in your iPod, iPad, iPhone, Android, BlackBerry, etc with it. In this case, you still need to convert AVI to more compatible formats for playback on most popular devices and players.