How to edit MKV file with iMovie

Posted by eimaliyu on November 6th, 2012

What is mkv format?

MKV short for Matroska Video, is a file format that can hold an unlimited number of video, audio, picture, or subtitle tracks in one file. Matroska is similar in concept to other containers like AVI, MP4, or Advanced Systems Format (ASF), but is entirely open in specification, with implementations consisting mostly of open source software. Matroska is usually found as .MKV files (matroska video), .MKA files (matroska audio) and .MKS files (subtitles) and .MK3D files (stereoscopic/3D video).

Why some programs use mkv as it format, what advantages does mkv have?

Compared with other container formats MKV surpasses the old good AVI and the popular MP4 formats in many areas. MKV format is a free alternative to all of them, and aiming to be able to offer a lot of features that others don't have.

MKV widely supports multimedia formats. Matroska Video is a container like MOV and AVI, providing support for a huge number of different video, audio and subtitles formats. MKV files became widespread simply because of its incredible support for some existing subtitles formats.

MKV is an open standards project. This means it is free to use, and that the technical specifications describing the bit stream are open to anybody, including companies that would like to support it in their products.

A range of software has native Matroska support, including media players such as Zoom Player, PotPlayer, MPlayer, VLC, GOM Player, ALLPlayer, Elmedia Player, foobar2000 and PowerDVD and media centers such as Plex, Boxee, PS3 Media Server and XBMC, and the web browser Google Chrome. A number of software tools such as HandBrake and Pinnacle Studio also support Matroska.

But if you want to edit mkv file with imovie you will have some problems, iMovie is very selective about what video formats can be imported, MPEG-4, DV, MOV are iMovie naturally supported video formats. MKV files are not included, so MKV can’t be imported to iMovie directly.

So what should we do? Doremisoft Mac Video Converter make importing MKV to iMovie possible. It's time to make iMovie more accessible and convenient to use. Video Converter for Mac, the best MKV to iMovie Converter, has the ability to convert MKV to iMovie MOV or iMovie MP4 easily with just a few mouse clicks. MKV to iMovie Converter supports iMovie 08, iMovie 09, iMovie 11 versions.

You can learn the steps to convert MKV to iMovie with Doremisoft Video Converter Mac.

Step 1: After you run the video converter, you can click the "Add File" to select the videos that you want to convert.

Step 2: Select an output format. Click the Arrow to the very right of the Profile field to open the Profile down-up list. From the opened list, move your mouse cursor to iMovie, and select an iMovie video format you prefer from the iMovie profiles.

Step 3: Click the "START" button begin to convert mkv to imoive conversion. After the conversion is finished, you can import the converted video into imovie for editing.