How to Sync and Convert MOV to iTunes with Ease

Whether you are using a Windows or Mac system, you might be familiar with MOV video format. If so, you will come across problems sometimes when trying to add files to your iTunes. In this article, you will find a solution to help you to convert MOV to iTunes.

Apple created iTunes media management program for QuickTime playback, giving users full convenience when they want to enjoy videos, music, TV shows, and more. It usually supports the MOV and MP4 video formats, but with restrictions. In some cases, you cannot add MOV videos to iTunes because of incompatibility problem. For example, iTunes might not recognize the encoder, bit rate, resolution and more. The solution to this common problem is to convert the MOV video files to iTunes, because only a few audio/video formats are supported by iTunes. Converting your files to iTunes supported format will allow you to play your videos smoothly.

To do this conversion, an intuitive program like the Aimersoft Video Converter Ultimate will be of great help. This tool can convert your MOV videos to iTunes supported M4V, MOV without compressing the video quality. In addition, you can use this tool to make adjustments to the videos easily using a built-in editor. The Mac equivalence of MOV to iTunes Converter is Aimersoft Video Converter for Mac, which is well compatible with Mac OS X (Mountain Lion). Read on and follow the step-by-step guidance below to convert MOV videos to play on iTunes now.

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Simple steps to convert MOV to iTunes

Aimersoft offers both Windows and Mac version of video converter for you to transform file format. Just choose the one that fit perfectly with your computer system. The tutorial below is just take some screenshot from Aimersoft Video Converter Ultimate (for Windows) as tips to show to how to convert MOV files in a hassle free manner. Let’s begin now:

1Add the MOV video files to the converter

This can be done in two ways videos: Drag the videos directly to the program for converting OR click the Add Files button in order to browse and choose the video clips. Once you load the videos, you are able to preview the clips, take snapshots, choose audio tracks and subtitle, merge the files and so on.

2 Specify the output format for iTunes

Open the Output Format list and choose one of the iTunes supported formats, like M4V, MOV and MP4. Note that it is possible to add your movie files to iTunes in order to sync them to iPhone, iPod or iPad. In this case, you would select the desired Apple device as the output format when converting videos with optimized settings.

Please note that you can also convert your iTunes movie files to various other formats. All you have to do is browse for the file and set the format that you need.

3 Begin converting your MOV files

Once you have all the right settings, you should preview to ensure that everything is okay. After that, you would click the large Convert button to complete the process. In the end, you will find your converted video files in the output folder that you choose.

This all-in-one video converter tool will help you to do conversions to iTunes in no time. Get started to convert MOV to iTunes and enjoy movies or videos anywhere you like.