What is MKV?

A .mkv file is a Matroska video/audio multimedia file. It is a container like MOV and AVI, providing support for a huge number of different video, audio and subtitles compression formats. MKV's popularity is partly due to its incredible support for several subtitle formats including SRT, SSA and USF text subtitles, or VobSub streams coming directly from the DVD.

The following tutorial will show you how to convert MKV to iTunes on Mac OS X (including Tiger, Leopard and Snow Leopard) using MKV to iTunes Converter for Mac.

Step 1. Download Mac MKV to iTunes Converter and run it.

Step 2. Load the MKV files you want to convert

Drag and drop the MKV files to the program or you can click the "Add Files" button to browse your computer hard disc and add the MKV files you want to convert to the program.

Batch conversion is also supported by this Mac MKV Converter, so you can load several MKV files at one time.

Step 3. Output Settings

After the MKV files are imported, you can select an output format for each video file and specify a directory on your computer to save the output files.

If you don't know what formats your device supports, you can just select the format according to the device name. For exapmle, you can select "iPod Touch (*.MPEG-4)" when you want to convert MKV to MP4 for playback on your iPod Touch. The default setting works well. Of course, if you don't want to use the default video and audio encoding settings, just click the "Settings" button to customize these settings.

Step 4. Edit your Video Files

This Mac MKV to iTunes Converter can help you set video brightness, contrast, saturation, crop video, trim video and even merge multiple files into one single file.

1. Capture a clip from your video file

Click "Trim" button to open the Trim window, and set the starting time and ending time by dragging the slider then you can convert a clip from the MKV file on Mac OS X.

2. Crop video footage

If you want to remove the black borders or just convert part of the video area from your video file, you can click the "Crop" button to crop the current video file by dragging the frame around the video.

3. Video effect

Click the "Effect" button and drag each effect adjustment slider to set the video brightness, contrast, saturation and audio volume. You can also choose to flip the video and apply a special video effect to your video file by selecting a special effect from: Gray, Emboss, Old Film and Negative.

Step 5. Start the video conversion

Click the "Convert" button to start converting MKV to iTunes and then you can just go out for a walk or take a nap, and the conversion may have been finished when you come back.

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How to convert video on Mac OS X?