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"I'm new to Mac and just downloaded several video files from my camera. They are .asf files and I can't figure out how to get them to play in either iMovie or Quicktime on my MacBook. They won't open and I don't know how to convert them. Help!"
ASF stands for "Advanced Streaming format" and is a proprietary codec courtesy of Microsoft Corp.It is used to compress Audio and Video data into one single file. Windows Movie Maker works perfectly with ASF files, but it is not the case when you want to import ASF to iMovie for editing or transfer ASF to QuickTime for playback.
To transfer ASF files to iMovie for editing, you'd better find a Video Converter for Mac to convert ASF to iMovie compabile MOV or MP4 files. Here, you can turn to ASF to iMovie Converter for help.
ASF to iMovie Converter is specially designed for converting ASF to iMovie workable files so that, you can easy get ASF to iMovie for editing with fast conversion speed and best output quality. Besides, it is also able to convert other videos like AVI, MP4, WMV, AVCHD, MTS, MOD etc to iMovie, FCP readable files.
Step by step to convert ASF to iMovie on Mac
Step 1: Load ASF files
There are two ways offered to help you add ASF files into ASF to iMovie Converter. You can either drag and drop ASF files or go to "File" menu then choose "Load Media Files" to import ASF files.
Step 2: Set iMovie as output format
Set "iMovie" as the output format directly, it will automatically set the resolution, bit rate and frame rate of the output file which match the demand of iMovie.
Step 3: Convert ASF files to iMovie
Click "Convert" to start converting ASF files to iMovie compatible MOV or MP4 format. After converting, you can easily transfer ASF to iMovie for free editing.