Practical Tips for Video Conversion FAQ

As we all know, the best way to solve the video format compatibility problem is to convert that video to another common videos. If you are a video zealot, or IT guru, you may easily get the quickest way to conduct the conversion right. However, not all people care much about these stuffs until they need to do the conversion, so they may have questions about what exactly the target video format they should convert to so as to make the unaccepted videos be played well. Let’s look at what people frequently asked about the video conversion:

Q: "I have got shot some AVI videos with my Toshiba Camileo, but they cannot be edited with FCP and iMovie. What’s the problem?"---a friend asked

A: Well, AVI is not the supported file format of iMovie, Final Cut Pro (FCP), and Final Cut Express (FCE), etc. maybe because AVI is Microsoft's response to Apple's QuickTime technology. To solve this problem, the best way is to convert AVI to DV.

Q: "I recently bought the most amazing 15’ Macbook Pro along with final cut Pro, hoping to put together video files from my JVC hard drive camcorder. The files from the camera are .mod and are not recognized by FCP (at least I can't figure out how). Any help on what I have to do? Thanks for your help!" --- From forums.macrumors.com

A: Generally speaking, MOD file is generated by JVC and Panasonic cameras. This kind of video format is now widely used by many famous camcorders since MOD can save videos in high compression rate and great image quality. However, MOD format is not compatible with most video editors such as FCP, iMoive, etc. So, if you want to edit MOD files with these editors, just convert MOD to MOV and the problem will be solved.

Q: "The Samsung Galaxy S4 is coming soon! I’m really excited about it! I like enjoying watching videos with my phone or my tablet when I was free, and I have got a bundle of DVD disc on hand, so my question is that can I play these DVDs with the newest Galaxy S4? "----from TalkAndroid

A: Well, to play DVD movies with Galaxy S4 would be a brilliant idea! But I have to say that it is not possible for you to load the videos directly from DVD to the phone. Instead, you should transfer the DVD videos to you computer firsr, and then convert the videos to Galaxy S4 accepted formats. Don’t have any idea? Try this all-round DVD Converter.

Q: "I want to play DivX videos on iPhone 5, which supports MP4 format only. It’s really irritating to convert DivX to MP4 but without lose their quality. Anyone can help?" Rohan Knouse asked in the Android forum.

A: Many people would like to watch DivX movies with their portable devices that have high resolution display, just like iPhone 5, but hardly can these devices compatible with DivX files. As the friend has mentioned above, you can convert the video’s format from DivX to MP4 because the majority of popular devices can recognize MP4 format. For the quality loss issue after the conversion, you can try this Video Converter, which will preserve the original video quality in 100%.

1080P MKV Videos Playback on Sony Xperia Z/Samsung Galaxy S4

MKV is one of the most widely used video formats today, so it would not be strange to us, isn’t it? Today, many people would like to adopt MKV format in saving their HD videos. It is also favored by the anime and TV shows fan-subbing community since MKV supports multiple audio and subtitle tracks in a single video file. As MKV is such a great format container with that many advantages, some newly designed mobile devices now can somewhat support to play MKV videos.

Nowadays, many mobile devices are designed with big screens, providing high resolution display. Such kind of devices could be outstanding for enjoying high definition videos and movies anywhere. Clearly, to get 1080P MKV videos playback on popular mobile devices will certainly be of great fun. Which is the best device for us to enjoy videos? Well, let’s take a have a look at two of the new favorite in the consumer electrics market:

Xperia Z is the brand new flagship smartphone of Sony. After the HTC Butterfly, the Xperia Z is the second phone to sport a 1080p display. The phone sports a 5-inch TFT display that has a resolution of 1080x1920 pixels and a pixel density of 441ppi. The screen is bright and vivid, and text looks extremely crisp while app icons and images look sharp. Images and videos look spectacular thanks to the addition of Sony's BRAVIA Engine 2.

The Galaxy S4, which has been announced to be unveiled by Samsung at its own exclusive event in New York on March 14, is expected to have a full-HD 1920×1080 display (up from 1280×720 on the S3) — and the display might even make the jump from 4.8 inches to an edge-to-edge 5 inches. It remains to be seen whether the underlying tech will be AMOLED or LCD, though reports suggest that Samsung’s AMOLED production line isn’t ready to produce 1920×1080 5-inch displays, while the LCD production line is raring to go. Maybe this will mean that the Galaxy S4 can finally compete with the iPhone in terms of image quality and accuracy.

As has been talked about above, these brand new devices will probably be able to play videos in a wide range of formats like MPEG4, WMV, MP4, DivX, XviD, FLV, H.263, H.264, AVI (divx), MKV, etc. However, that doesn’t mean they can recognize all MKV videos, since MKV is only a container format which could be consist of various different video codecs, so sometimes we may encounter the format compatibility problems, especially when we try to play 1080p MKV with these devices like importing MKV to Galaxy S4 or 1080p MKV to Sony Xperia Z. In this circumstance, we’ll need to convert 1080P MKV to H.264 MP4.

Tips: If you want to do the conversion, such as to convert MKV to Galaxy S4 and convert MKV to Sony Xperia Z MP4, you may need this smart and professional Video Converter (Video Converter for Mac).

How to Play Xperia Z Unaccepted Videos

Wall Street Journal recently wrote an article reporting that, as the traditional businesses gradually deteriorating, Sony now depend all its hopes of defeating Apple and Samsung on the Xperia Z --- the newest smartphone models. Sony’s previous Xperia devices have always been a little lacking in some way, but as to Xperia Z, it feels all good as if it's finally found its stride. Except from lacking Android 4.2 -- which won’t be a problem for very long, according to Sony -- this blower is packed full of good stuff.

However, even though Sony focused all its nerves on developing the Xperia Z, it still failed to make the devices more humanized as to be a little more compatible with video formats, just like the Apple’s iPhone and Samsung’s Galaxy. Knowing about this, Sony can hardly surpass its competitors in winning the smartphone market shares, since nowadays an increasing number of smartphone buyers would take the entertainment features into consideration, which enjoying videos plays a major part. Now that the Xperia Z does not perform any better than the iPhone or Galaxy, why should buyers purchase it?

In fact, despite the fact above, Xperia Z has many stunning features compared to other popular smartphones like the iPhone 5. For example, its quad-core processor is a monster, the 1080p screen is pin-sharp and the waterproof design will help the phone find favor with butter-fingered mobile users who are prone to accidentally dropping their expensive devices into random pools of liquid. In general, Xperia Z is among the best smartphones to buy.

If the video file compatibility problem is the only reason you are not considering the Xperia Z, now you can worry no more about that. To fix this problem, solution is very simple: all you need is a professional Xperia Video App. For my part, I choose the famous Video Converter (Video Converter for Mac) from Doremisoft. With this powerful Xperia Video App, almost all popular videos in different file format can be converted to Xperia accepted formats. For instance, we can use it to convert WLMP to MP4, which fits Xperia the most.

What’s more, this converter can also convert videos to other famous devices and applications for playback, e.g. convert MKV to Nexus 10 for playback, or transform MP4 to WebM for online sharing on HTML 5 sites.