How to Convert DV on Mac Using DV Converter for Mac

1. What's DV file?

Digital Video (DV) is a digital video format created by Sony, JVC, Panasonic and other video camera producers, and launched in 1995. Its smaller tape form factor MiniDV has since become a standard for home and semi-professional video production; it is sometimes used for professional purposes as well, such as filmmaking and electronic news gathering (ENG). The DV specification defines both the codec and the tape format.

2. How to play DV files on Mac for free?

Most DV players, editors and encoders only support the basic DV format, but not its professional versions. DV Audio/Video data can be stored as raw DV data stream file or the DV data can be packed into AVI container files. The DV meta-information is preserved in both file types. For Mac users, QuickTime by default only decodes DV to half of the resolution to preserve processing power for editing capabilities. However, in the "Pro" version the setting "High Quality" under "Show Movie Properties" enables full resolution playback. Mplayer OS X and VLC Media player are platforms support full decoding quality.

3. How to convert DV to MOV,MP4, AVI, MKV, M4V etc on Mac

Free Download DV Converter for Mac:
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Mac DV Converter can do good jobs for those who want to convert DV video files to popular formats like AVI, FLV, WMV, 3GP, 3GP2, 3GPP, 3GPP2, QuickTime (MOV), MPG, MKV, etc. After the conversion, it’s easy to put the videos into iMovie without any difficulty. What’s more, we can directly put the video into players like iPod, iPhone, Apple TV, PSP, Zune, PDA/Pocket PC (including BlackBerry), Creative Zen, Archos, Epson media players and any cell phone.

4. How to extract audio from DV on Mac OS

DV converter for Mac is a good program to extract audio from DV videos with only few clicks, In addition, this great application can support us to convert the audio file formats to MP3, M4A, WAV, AC3, AAC, MKA, OGG, etc on Mac.

5. How to trim, crop, add effect to DV video on Mac

If you just want the best clips of the camera videos, you can trim the video by selecting the start time and end time. Also, with this all-in-one Mac DV converter, you can add more effects to your video files, like to change the brightness of the videos, to merge many videos into one file.

All the functions of the MAC DV converter mentioned above are that of Video converter for Mac (Snow Leopard, Lion included) which can also convert AVCHD (M2TS, MTS), TRP, TP, TOD, MOD, MPEG-4, TS videos from camcorder such as Canon, Sony, JVC, Panasonic etc and HD video to MP4, MOV, AVI, FLV etc. Now, just find more information at how to convert DV files on Mac OS?