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As a free DVD Creation software application, iDVD is widely used by Mac users. iDVD allows the user to add QuickTime Movies, MP3 music, and digital photos to a DVD that can then be played on a commercial DVD player. Continue reading →

MOD is the video format used on many digital camcorders, such as the JVC Everio, Canon FS100 and Panasonic D-Snap SD-card camcorders. It is similar to a VOB file on a DVD or the M2T files used on Sony hard drive camcorders. Continue reading →

Material eXchange Format (MXF) is a container format for professional digital video and audio media defined by a set of SMPTE standards. MXF is in the process of evolving from standard to deployment. The breadth of the standard can lead to interoperability problems as vendors implement different parts of the standard. It widely used by professional HD digital camcorders like Canon, Sony, Panasonic, etc.

But the HD MXF are not compatible with most of media players like Windows Media Player, iTunes, QuickTime, so many Mac users want to find a way to play HD MXF on QuickTime on Mac for playing as below.

Q1: How to play MXF videos in QuickTime?

I would like to play a MXF video in QuickTime but it says it doesn’t support it. What do I have to do?

Q2: How do I convert from .MXF to a format that will allow QuickTime to run the movie?

I just got my first Mac, it’s great. However, all of my previous stuff was saved on a desktop and all of my movies and videos are saved as MXF and QuickTime won’t open them. How do I convert to a format that will allow QuickTime to open it without a problem? Can I just rename it like I do with .doc in order to open in Pages?

Luckily, a friend of mine recommended me a MXF to QuickTime Converter Mac which he tried very great. I download the free trial and found it’s very easy to use, and can convert Canon, Sony, Panasonic MXF files to MOV. Then you can play the converted MXF videos on QuickTime on Mac. Then I bought it without any hesitating. If you have the same problem with me, maybe you can try it. Learn the details about how to play MXF on QuickTime Mac, hope can help you.

GoPro is a famous professional camcorder brand for outdoor sports users including HD HERO2 Professional and HD HERO Original. All GoPro camcorders are wearable, waterproof, shockproof, etc. So users can record videos with GoPro, when they play surfing, water skiing, jet-skiing, car racing, etc. However, many GoPro users don’t know how to edit the recorded HD GoPro MP4, H.264 videos as below. Continue reading →

Audio-only MPEG-4 files generally have a .m4a extension. M4A is slated to become the new standard for audio file compression. This format is also known as Apple Lossless, Apple Lossless Encoder, or ALE. It is a new codec designed to provide lossless encoding in less storage space. Continue reading →

MKV is one of the most popular video formats. It is popular for its high-definition video quality. And most MKV videos are 1080p and 720p files. We may get it by online downloading or ripping from Blu-ray discs. It supports multi-track and multi-subtitle. However, this format is complex that only few media players can handle it. Continue reading →

iMovie HD is the most popular iMovie editing software. Also many iMovie announced iMovie 08, iMovie 09, iMovie 11, etc. Many Mac users like to use iMovie HD 6 to edit videos. iMovie 6 was released in January 2006 as part of the iLife ’06 suite and in iLife ’08 as a substitution for iMovie ’08 (due to the new version’s incompatibility with older Power PC Macintosh computers). It was integrated with iPhoto, iTunes, iDVD, GarageBand and iWeb. Continue reading →

The Kindle Fire is a tablet computer version of Amazon.com’s Kindle e-book reader. Announced on 28 September 2011, the Kindle Fire will have a color 7″ multi-touch display with IPS technology and run on a forked version of Google’s operating system (OS) Android. It includes access to the Amazon Appstore, streaming movies and TV shows, and Kindle’s e-books. (from Wikipedia.org) Continue reading →

The newest tablet Kindle fire will stating Tuesday for $ 199 in the United State. The Kindle fire is the first color 7″ multi-touch display with IPS technology and run on a forked version of Google’s operating system (OS) Android under $ 199. Continue reading →

You’re reading this to make sure that the Amazon Kindle Fire you already know you want is up to snuff, and well, it is. Turn it on and you know what to do, like with an Apple product. It’s a 7-inch tablet, which means that it’s half as big as an iPad, and way closer in size to a paperback book. And because the Fire is widescreen, unlike the more 4×3 iPad, videos look almost as big as they do on Apple’s much larger device. Continue reading →