Abstract: introduce AVI, Give solutions about how to play AVI on Mac and how to convert AVI to iMovie on Mac OS X.

Audio Video Interleaved (AVI) files are a common format for compressed video clips. Files downloaded from the internet often use this format. AVI files are often containers, and can contain audio/video compressed using varying different codecs (this is similar to an .mp4 file either using MPEG4 compression or H264 compression). Most AVI files use DivX, Xvid or 3ivX compression codecs. AVI all look the same on the "outside", but on the "inside", they may be completely different. Although 95% or more are DivX today, not all AVI files are DivX due to the fact it is used in the peer-to-peer groups.

Frequently, people need to play and edit AVI files to iMovie on Mac OS X.There are several ways to view them in Mac OS X.

Here are the most common solutions to play AVI files on Mac :
1. 1. Use an alternative free player, VLC player.
2. 2. Use Mplayer.

Note: If a file does not play properly in one of these players, then your chances are slim of ever getting the file to play on a Mac, let alone importing it to iMovie .

How to convert AVI files to iMovie on Mac OS X ?

Then, the AVI to iMovie converter for Mac can help you play AVI on Mac easily and import AVI to iMovie successfully. It is not only a good AVI to iMovie converter but also a video editor for Mac. You can do video trim and video crop etc on.

There are only three steps to convert AVI to iMovie .

The corresponding buttons are comparatively “add files”, “format” and “start”. Just pay attention to the output format that should be compatible to iMovie. You can convert AVI to MOV, MP4 or DV (digital videos.) to import to iMovie , which are more acceptable by iMovie.

More details information about iMovie and how to make a home movie using iMovie from AVI files.