

Their main difference is that MP4 is recognized as an international format for media files and has gained much greater support and popularity, which is why it is used in any players and on any devices. But if you have videos which are incompatible with iMovie, like AVI, MKV, WMV, FLV, Webm, Divx, Xvid, DVD, VOB, DAV, M2TS, MOD, TOD, MXF and some type of MP4. Since both types of MOV and MP4 media containers use the same MPEG-4 format, they can be easily converted. From the drop-down, select File or File Export, whichever option you see. Now, from the toolbar, navigate to File > Share. Click on Import Media to upload your MOV video file. Click on File on top and select New Movie from the drop-down. This format is convenient to use because it has a good ratio of compression and quality, which is very important for many internet users. Here’s how you can convert MOV files to MP4 in iMovie: Launch iMovie. Using the MOV format as the main Quicktime player format has given it great popularity among Mac and Windows users and at the moment almost all popular video programs support the MOV extension. Tracks are supported in a hierarchical data structure consisting of objects called atoms.

Each track contains a digital media stream or a link to the data for the media stream (which is located in another file). This file format is a media container that can contain several types of files, such as video, audio, and text (for example, for subtitles). Import media into iMovie from your Mac You can import mediavideo, photos, and audiofrom your Mac or a connected storage device. The MOV format was developed by Apple for storing the video in a patented compression mode.
