How to Convert MPG to AVI on Mac (Lion Supported)

MPEG (Moving Picture Experts Group), is the name of a family of standards used for coding audio-visual information (e.g., movies, video, music) in a digital compressed format. It is also a group. The group has produced MPEG-1, the standard on which such products as Video CD and MP3 are based, MPEG-2, the standard on which such products as Digital Television set top boxes and DVD are based, MPEG-4, the standard for multimedia for the fixed and mobile web. Both MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 standard can produce video files with extension with .mpg or .mpeg.

AVI (Audio Video Interleaved) files are a common format for compressed video clips. Files downloaded from the internet often use this format. Frequently, we need to convert MPG to AVI to burn to DVD discs and for other special uses, such as playing on AVI Player device.

MPG to AVI Converter for Mac can convert any MPEG files (.mpg or mpeg) to AVI on Mac. Download and install it.

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Supported Apple OS: MAC OS X 10.4, Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, Mac OS X 10.5.7, Mac OS X 10.5.8, Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard and Mac OS Lion, Unibody Macbook, Mac Pro, Mac Mini, MacBook, MacBook Pro, MacBook Air, iMac and PC with Mac OS X.

Step 1, Import MPG files to MPG to AVI converter for Mac.

This MPG to AVI converter has a simple and intuitive interface. To add MPG files, simply drag files from Finder and drop to the application.

Step 2, Select AVI as the output format.

Step 3, Edit video with MPG to AVI Converter for Mac.

If you are not satisfied with video effect, resolution, or bite rate, or you need to extract some clips of the video, there are video editing functions such as trimming, cropping, changing effect and so on. Learn more from how to edit MPG video on Mac OS.

Step 4, Click "Start" to convert MPG to AVI on Mac OS X.

Before converting MPG to MOV, you could preview the video to check whether the video quality is good or poor. If it's not what you want, try to change the video settings, such as resolution, bit rate, video effects and so on. Finally, click Start button and after a little while, you will get the converted AVI in your specified folder.