Have a difficult time to read and edit M4V files with FCE? I myself recently downloaded an episode of Battlestar Galactica from iTunes. When I tried to import M4V into FCE (Final Cut Express), the files are just grayed out and I can't do anything. Surfing the web, I read that .m4v can be playable in iTunes or QuickTime, but I just could not find a codec or anything to convert m4v to another format workable with FCE. Seems that I don't even own what I bought. But there should be a way out. Let's check it out.

What is M4V?

There are two definitions for the term M4V. The first is that raw MPEG-4 Visual bit streams are named .m4v. The second and much more likely, is that you have legally downloaded a video file from the Apple iTunes store and it has the M4V extension. These files can be movies, TV shows or music videos and all will include Apple's FairPlay DRM copyright protection. To play these files, iTunes must authorize the video. If your file is unprotected however, you will be able to play with the following list of software (also linked below): Apple iTunes, QuickTime Player, Real Networks RealPlayer and Media Player Classic. WMP cannot play these files. FCE won't import M4V because of the incompatibility.

What formats can FCE be compatible with?

Let's take a quick look at the main features of FCE. Final Cut Express now allows you to import and edit such footage captured in such popular video formats as DV, HDV, and AVCHD. Or export your iMovie projects. That's easy to tell FCE is very picky on which software or format it would like to import. It likes digital camcorder video qualified formats; unfortunately, many other regular video files like M4V, AVI, MPG or WMV are excluded. It is possible to import M4V into FCE directly only when you have the necessary codecs installed or need a suitable program to convert M4V to another format to workable with FCE.

The program you need.

Video converter for Mac is a Mac-friendly video converter programs that being able to run on both PowerPC and Intel Processor. The powerful codec pack included in the program can read, play, and convert almost all video and audio files. It can be an easier thing to convert M4V to DV, MPEG-4 or MPEG-2 that workable with FCE (Final Cut Express).

The program not only converts between video files but also supports to convert video to audio, and convert audio to audio. The features of video converter for Mac decides that it is a powerful program that can work closely with iMovie, iTunes, FCE (Final Cut Express) and other editing programs. Using video converter for Mac to import M4V files into FCE is currently the best choice for you.

The powerful video editing capacity allows you to freely crop, rotate, trim and add effect to the video so that you can get the personalized video, if you would like to enjoy the video with your portable devices like iPod, Blackberry, Creative Zen and iPhone, well, Video converter for Mac can make it all possible. It is able to compress video into different formats with different sizes so that can fit into different screen.