Movavi Video Converter 22.5.0 — Mac version

Sick of videos that won't play on your phone or old laptop? Movavi Video Converter is the fix — one app that reshapes video, audio and images into formats that actually work.

SuperSpeed — a conversion mode that finishes the job in a fraction of the usual time, no quality guessing.

GIF maker — turn a short clip into a looping GIF with a couple of clicks.

Audio extraction — pull the soundtrack out of a video and save it as MP3, M4A, or FLAC.

Quick edits — trim the boring bits, crop the edges, or straighten a wonky horizon before you convert.

Repair café fixes for stuck conversions and 0% hangs

Most problems come down to three things: the source file, the chosen preset, or macOS being cautious. Here's what I see at the repair café and what actually helps.

• Conversion sticks at 0% or hangs midway. Quit the app, then try a single file instead of a batch. Some old MKV rips carry odd codecs that trip the engine. Splitting the job usually points at the troublemaker.
• Gatekeeper blocks the first launch. If you downloaded it outside the App Store, macOS may grumble. Open it once, then head to System Settings → Privacy & Security and choose Open Anyway. After that, it starts normally.
• Audio and video drift apart. This shows up on long clips from screen recordings or VHS captures. Tick the stabilisation option or trim a second off the start — both nudge the sync back into line.
• Output file is tiny and the video looks blocky. You've likely picked a mobile preset with a low bitrate. Try the No quality loss conversion mode or choose a desktop profile instead of a phone one.
• Subtitles disappear after conversion. Soft subs embedded in MKV don't always carry over to MP4. Burn them in via the subtitle tab beforehand, and they'll show on anything.

A wedding photographer's Monday

Picture Amara. She shoots weddings on a Sony mirrorless camera and comes home with 200 clips in a mix of XAVC and MP4. Her couples want a same-day slideshow that plays on any telly, plus a version small enough to WhatsApp to the grandparents.

She drags the whole folder in, picks an Apple TV preset for one batch and a small MP4 for the other. SuperSpeed chews through it while she edits photos. Audio extraction grabs the ceremony vows as an M4A she can slip into a podcast intro. One app, three jobs, and she's home before the cake gets stale. The batch-from-folder option is the bit that saves her evening — no clicking through a hundred files one at a time.

Make Quick Look previews work after converting a weird AVI

Movavi Video Converter plays nicely with plain old Finder and the built-in tools you already use.

• Quick Look previews. Convert a weird AVI to MP4 and the spacebar preview works straight away — handy before you commit to importing a whole card.
• iMovie and Photos. Both sometimes refuse oddball formats. Convert first, then import. Photos in particular gets on well with the JPEG output when you've pulled a still from a clip.
• Apple Music. Extract audio as FLAC or WAV for archiving, or M4A if you want tags to carry into the library cleanly.
• AirDrop to a phone or iPad. A device profile for Apple hardware keeps file sizes sane, so a five-minute clip doesn't balloon to 2 GB on the way across.
• Automator and folder workflows. The batch-from-folder behaviour means you can leave a watched folder for exports and let conversions happen while you're elsewhere.

One little tip: if you're on an older Intel Mac with a spinning drive, keep the source and destination on the same disk. It cuts out a chunk of read-write traffic and speeds the whole thing up noticeably.

• macOS 10.13 or newer
• Intel processor