It's not enough when you have recorded some videos in AVI with your camcorder or phone camera: to use is the more important than to obtain these AVI videos. Windows says little in this, you can play AVI with Windows Media Player, edit them in Windows Movie Maker, insert them into PowerPoint to feature your presentation etc. on contrast, Mac OS says much: you are unable to play AVI videos in QuickTime, neither organize them in iTunes, nor edit in iMovie or Final Cut Pro, import to iPhone, iPad or iPod? Never think about that.
But all this doesn't make AVI useless in Mac or inaccessible to iOS devices. Take playing AVI for example, you can install Perian then are able to do so. But if you wanna do more, you'd better convert AVI to MOV or some other Mac OS including Snow Leopard and Lion or iOS compatible formats. The following paragraphs are all about how to convert AVI to MOV quickly and easily. To do so, you can take the assistant of a professional Video Converter, which can accomplish the AVI to MOV conversion with three steps, and can maintain your video quality at the same time. You can install the AVI to MOV converter free trial and practice the whole conversion as below:
Part 1: Convert AVI to MOV in Mac OS
download the professional AVI to MOV Mac converter and install it.
Step 1. Add AVI to the AVI to MOV software
Press "Video" icon in the welcome windows of the AVI to MOV Mac Video converter to open video panel. If you have skipped the welcome windows, click Local Video tab. To import AVI files to the application, you have two options:
- Directly drag and drop the videos into the AVI to MOV converter.
- Head to File and select "Load Media Files".

Tip: The AVI to MOV Video converter offers support for batch conversion, so that you can import several videos into the app.
Step 2. Set MOV as your output format
Hit the format icon and go to the format list, select "MOV" out of "Video" category. In this part, you are supplied some default settings for iOS devices like iPad, iPhone, iPod, Apple TV and Mac OS applications, such as iMovie, iDVD, Final Cut Pro, which means, you can directly choose your output format according to your device or app name, if you are about to use the videos in these devices or apps. The optimized presets are specially set according to the require of device or app.

Step 3. Start to convert AVI to MOV
Click Convert icon in the right bottom of the Video converter Ultimate, and then the rest of AVI to MOV conversion would be finished automatically. The smart converter additionally offers you the function of shutting down your computer after the AVI to MOV conversion if you accidently have something emergency to do and have to leave the computer at once.
Part 2: Convert AVI to MOV in Windows OS
This requires a helpful Video Converter runs in Windows OS. And the AVI to MOV conversion goes just as the same as the Mac conversion:
- 1. Import your videos into the AVI to MOV program: straightforwardly drag & drop your videos into the application or click the "Add Files" button.
- 2. Choose MOV to be the output format.
- 3. Click "Convert" to convert AVI to MOV.
Also, you can refer to a video tutorial:





