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Tuesday, October 28, 2014

How to Easily Import MKV files to iTunes (iTunes 12)

The article shows you how to convert MKV to iTunes compatible video format so that you can add your MKV files to iTunes library for easy syncing.



iTunes is very picky about what kind of formats can be imported into it, and only a few of media formats are supported by iTunes, including MOV and MP4. So you will certainly stumble if you try to add MKV to iTunes for syncing. To sync across multiple iDevices easily, you will need to convert MKV videos to iTunes-friendly format first.


To do that, you can use EaseFab Video Converter Ultimate, which supports converting video from all regular format to iTunes compatible formats, whatever it's MOV, MP4 or M4V. What's more, if you want to play MKV video on your iPad, iPhone, iPod, you can directly select the device model as the output format. No manual video settings are required. All Apple devices are supported, including iPad Air, iPad mini, iPad with Retina display, iPhone 6 Plus, iPhone 6, iPhone 5S, iPod touch 5, etc. Below is the simple three steps to get MKV and iTunes to play nicely.

How to convert MKV to iTunes supported video formats

Step 1. Open the program and drag your MKV video files from your computer to the program. You can also click the Add Video button to load your source media files.



Step 2. After you have successfully completed loading your MKV files, select the output format and folder. If you do not have a ready folder, create one where you can easily locate it. The video formats available are M4V, MP4 or MOV. In this case, we shall select MP4 format (Profile > Common Video > MP4 Video) from the common video choices only for description purposes.



If you want to sync the converted video to a specific devices like iPhone, iPad, iPod or other devices, you can choose your device model from Apple category.



Step 3. Click the "Convert" button to initiate the conversion. The resulted videos will be smaller in file size, leaving more free space for your other multimedia contents.

Now the converted MKV video is ready to be imported into iTunes and if necessary, sync with your Apple device. To import videos to iTunes, open iTunes and go to File > Add to Library or directly drag and drop the converted video to iTunes. And then find the video in the Movies category.

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