Introduction:

If you happen to be in the process of moving from a PC to a Mac and have a lot of .wmv video from movies you made from PC. You will soon find out all your Windows Media Video (.wmv ) files just can't play with Apple QuickTimer player. What's worse, you may already get used to use Windows movie Maker to edit you video, but now you have to use something totally new like iMovie and Final Cut Express as editing tool. Get a little panic? Presently, there is no such a fantastic feature as to help those that are switching to Mac. And import .wmv files into FCE (Final Cut Express) to cut and paste for a few minutes worth of video is never being an easy thing unless you get to learn something.

What is WMV?

WMV stands for Windows Media Video and was developed and controlled by Microsoft specifically for internet streaming. WMV is a generic name of Microsoft's video encoding solutions and doesn't necessarily define the technology what it uses.

It should be noted that in order to play a WMV file you will need to have a codec. A codec is software that can easily read a file format and create video images and audio from the data provided. While WMV requires a codec, the good news is that this codec is extremely easy to come by and usually free.

Playing Windows Media Files WMV on QuickTime

One option is to download the Windows Media Player for Mac from the Microsoft website. Microsoft says they will continue to offer Windows Media Player 9 as a free download for Macintosh users, but they will no longer provide support or updates for this product. So in the long run, you may be better off going with a program that can play WMV on Mac, and it's better free and have updates, iOrgsoft video converter for Mac should be an ideal choice you can count on.

Another option is to encode wmv files to other form like .mov, dv, mpeg-4(.mp4) or 3gp etc that can playback with QuickTime Player without problem, I would also recommend video converter for Mac as the program to perform the task, it carries a powerful codec pack that contains all the necessary codec needed to encode and decode video/audio files to work well with not only QuickTime, but also iMovie and Final Cut Express.

Import WMV files into Final Cut Express (FCE)

One possibility to directly import WMV to Final Cut Express is to upgrade Apple Mac's system to enhance its compatibility with Microsoft Windows media files. This requires lots of work for Apple Mac engineers and how long the upgrade finish should is still under question. One thing for sure no one would like to wait for something with such great uncertainty.

Video converter for Mac comes at the right time to take all your trouble away. As we know, Final Cut Express 4.0 supports DV, HDV and AVCHD files as well as files form iMovie, all of which becomes the breakthrough point we may take advantage of. Video converter for Mac empowers you to convert WMV to MPEG-4 or DV, it will be then an easy story to import the encoded file to FCE.

Besides the feature as a player, a video converter on Mac that manage almost all video/audio files, video converter for Mac has powerful video editing capacity that allows you to trim, crop, add effect and merge files into one. So, what are you waiting for?