MP4 to MOV converter
Turn MP4 videos into MOV files for Apple editing apps.
or drop them here, or paste them
Nothing is uploaded.
About MP4 to MOV
Some Apple workflows, older versions of Final Cut and certain broadcast tools expect MOV files. The video and sound in most MP4s can be placed in a MOV container without changing them.
That makes the conversion quick and lossless in most cases. It runs entirely in your browser.
MOV and MP4 are close relatives (MP4 grew out of Apple's MOV format), so the picture and sound are copied across without being re-encoded. The result has the same quality and almost the same size as your MP4, and a long video converts in seconds.
If the MP4 holds a stream that can't go into a MOV as it is, it is re-encoded to H.264 with AAC sound, which takes longer. The MOV opens in QuickTime, iMovie and Final Cut. Nothing is uploaded, and after the page has loaded it also works offline.
You can convert several videos at once and download them together as a ZIP. If a file turns out not to be an MP4, the page tells you which converter fits it instead.
Questions and answers
No. Both are containers; the quality comes from the video inside, which is usually copied unchanged.
Yes. iMovie, Final Cut Pro and QuickTime Player open H.264 MOV files.
Because the video and sound are copied as they are, only the container around them changes.