ASF to iMovie Converter

If you have an mpeg-4 digital video cam that record .asf files, you will find that only Window media player can play them, but you may haven’t found a way to import .ASF files into iMovie on Mac to edit in there, even to watch ASF on Mac could be a very difficult thing. The fact is that Microsoft ASF video files make it very difficult to import footage encoded with these formats, especially on a Mac. So, is there a program that is able to import .asf into iMovie or convert asf for iMovie workable on Mac?

First thing first, iMovie is a good to use free program that comes with iLife on Mac, it can edit some certain video files, especially has a preference for DV and HD, Mpeg-4 and Mpeg-2. It also allows you to publish home video onto YouTube or MySpace for sharing the world. However, iMovie sometimes lets us down because of its selectiveness on a limited range of video types that can be directly imported to.

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What we need to do to import asf to iMovie is first to convert asf to DV, MPEG-4 or MPEG-2 as iMovie compatible, then we can import them to iMovie. A good program we need in this situation should be video converter for Mac, which is a simple yet powerful video to iMovie converter app that supports to convert between almost all video/audio files. And to convert from ASF to DV or MPEG-4 for iMovie is just a tiny part of what video converter for Mac can do for us on Mac.

Video converter for Mac can be a great player for Mac users for its powerful code pack included that being able to read, play, and compress/convert video and audio files. You can also use it to do interesting video editing, rip audio from video, take still images from video, merge, trim, rotate and apply video effect, etc. It just can do more than we can imagine.

Step by Step on how to import asf to iMovie on Mac?

Step 1. Load ASF video info
Video converter for Mac supports almost all video files to import. Hit the "Add Files" button to import ASF or other video files to the program. The batch mode allows you to load as many files in different formats as you like at one time.



Step 2. Select output formats
As said in the article, iMovie has a preference for DV and MPEG-4 formats. You can select one of them as the output format in the Profile drop down list.



Step 3. Customize video editing
Hit Setting button will open a window for you to tweak the video setting (Resolution, Sample Rate, Bit rate and Frame rate) by putting in different values to see which has the best output effect.



Step 4 Hit Convert to start convert asf to for iMovie
Click Open on the bottom of the panel to open the converted files that stored on your computer.