About MKV files:

Wikipedia gives an explanation of it as: "The Matroska Multimedia Container is an open standard free container format, a file format that can hold an unlimited number of video, audio, picture or subtitle tracks inside a single file. It is intended to serve as a universal format for storing common multimedia content, like movies or TV shows. Matroska is similar in conception to other containers like AVI, MP4 or ASF, but is entirely open in specification, with implementations consisting mostly of open source software. Matroska file types are .MKV for video (with subtitles and audio), .MKA for audio-only files and .MKS for subtitles only. The most common use of .MKV files is to store HD video files."

Although MKV files have been one of the most popular video formats, most portable devices, video players, video editors, etc. do not give native supports to them. Therefore, it’s necessary for us to convert this format to many other media formats, so as to play or edit them without trouble.

How to convert MKV to other video formats like MP4, FLV, AVI, WMV, 3GP, etc.?

Software you need:

Pavtube MKV Converter



Step 1: Click "Add" button to load MKV files.

Step 2: Click the drop-down list of "Format" to select an output format, which format to select depending on your end use of the generated files. Meanwhile, click the folder icon at the end of "Output" to specify a destination folder.

Step 3: Click "Settings" button to adjust video and audio parameters like aspect ratio, bit rate, frame rate, sample rate, etc.

Step 4: Click "Convert" button to start conversion.

Tips:

1. If you want to combine multiple MKV files to be as one file, please tick the checkbox "Merge into one file".

2. Click the camera icon, and then you can take screenshot of the playing MKV file, after that, click the folder icon on the right side of this icon to get the screenshots.

3. Click "Edit" button, then you will be led to the editor interface as below:




The "Crop" function allows you cutting off black edges and the unwanted areas of the original MKV files.

The "Trim" function enables you to set the exact duration of the video clip. You can set the "Start" time and "End" time, or you can directly drag the slide bar to the time points as you like.

Through using "Text Watermark" and "Image/Video Watermark" function, you are able to add your preferred texts, pictures, even GIF animations and videos to be as your watermark, in that way, the "Picture-in-picture" effect will be realized beautifully.

The "Effect" function permits you adjusting the effects of your MKV files, including "Brightness", "Contrast", "Saturation", and adding special effects like "simple gauss blur", "Simple laplasian sharpen", flip color", etc. to your videos.

"Audio Replace" function makes it possible for you to take place of the original audio with your specified audio source.

Feel headache to deal with tons of MKV files downloaded from the network on your Mac OS? Congratulations, you are lucky enough to be here, since this thread here will focus on this point and tell you how to convert MKV files to other video formats like AVI, MOV, MP4, etc. on Mac, even the newly released Snow Leopard is supported. I believe some of you are searching solutions to this problem, in that case, just feel free to get whatever you need from this post with ease. The program we will use is called Pavtube MKV Converter for Mac, and now let’s have a look at the step-by-step instruction of it together.


Step 1: Download, install and launch Pavtube MKV Converter for Mac.

See, the following window is its friendly main interface, you can click"Add” button to load MKV files which you want to convert into this program.



Step 2: Choose output format and set destination folder

As soon as MKV files are input, now click on the drop-down list of"Format” to select an output format according to your end use of the output files. For example, import to iPhone or iPod for playback, you can select MP4; add to BlackBerry for entertainment, you can choose WMV or AVI; upload to YouTube for sharing, you can select FLV; load to iMovie for further editing you can choose MOV, etc. What’s more, if you want to join multiple MKV files to be one file, you can check"Merge into one file” to realize it. Imagine you dislike using the path set by default to save the output files, you can specify one by yourself through hitting"Browse” button.



Step 3: Set configurable settings

Pavtube MKV Converter for Mac permits users adjusting video and audio parameters like codec, aspect ratio, bit rate, frame rate, etc., in that case, you can decide the output file size and the video quality. In principle, the larger input values will generate better quality, but accompanying with larger file size; on the contrary, the smaller input values will produce smaller file size, but in accordance with more inferior file quality. Due to this, you’d better make a balance between the output file size and the output file quality. If you are not good at configuration, you can totally skip this step.



Step 4: Convert

As long as the above mentioned steps are all finished, what you should do next is just pressing"Convert” button to begin conversion. After done, click on the"Open” button, and then you will find out the output files easily.

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Pavtube MTS/M2TS Converter for Mac is specially developed for people who are using the AVCHD digital camcorders including Canon HF S11 and HF 21. It can help them to edit and convert their high definition record videos (*.mts or *.m2ts) to other video and audio formats, such as MP4, 3GP, 3G2 AVI, MPG. MOV, MKV, AVI, FLV, VOB, SWF, MP3, FLAC, OGG, WAV, AC3, M4A, MP3, WAV etc.

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