Best Way to Import MOV Files to PowerDirector

Importing MOV videos to PowerDirector, but no picture just sound? Read this article, I think you can get an easy workaround.

I'm going from Mac to PC. What I did was move all of the files from Mac to a hard drive that was formatted to exfat. All of my videos are MOV files. When I import the MOV files to PowerDirector, there is sound but no picture...

Hunting for solutions in Cyberlink forum, some guys asked to install QuickTime. I have Quicktime installed but still no picture just sound. I've done all the hoops with tech support and eventually try an alternative way- convert MOV to a different format for PowerDirector like MPEG-2. In this try, I succeed. Perfect video and audio in PD.

So, why PowerDirector can't read MOV files correctly? As some guys explained, MOV is a container format which can contain data encoded using various compression and encoding schemes. If your MOV files are not accepted by Cyberlink PowerDirector, it's probably because of the video or audio codec incompatibility. On this occasion, we need to transcode MOV to PowerDirector preferred MPEG-2 files and then transfer the converted MOV files to PowerDirector for editing.

Here the utility guys recommend is Brorsoft Video Converter. By running it, we can transcode MOV clips to PowerDirector compatible format easily. Besides transcoding MOV video to PowerDirector, the all-in-one and easy-to-use toolkit can convert all other popular video formats like AVI, MXF, MP4, WMV, MKV, FLV, MTS, VOB, etc. to PowerDirector, Pinnacle Studio, Adobe Premiere Pro, Windows Movie Maker, Sony Vegas Pro natively supported video formats.

P.S. For those who wanna convert and edit MOV files with PowerDirector on Mac OS X(macOS Sierra included), please get Video Converter for Mac.

The Steps: Converting MOV files for PowerDirector

Step 1. Launch the MOV Video Converter, and you can either click "Add" button to import .mov files, or directly drag and drop the files into this program.



Step 2. Click the format bar, and move mouse cursor to Adobe Premiere/ Sony Vegas column and select MPEG-2 (*.mpg) as output format.



Tip: If the default settings do not fit you requirement, you can click "Settings" icon to and enter "Profile Settings" panel to adjust video size, bit rate, frame rate, sample rate and audio channels.

Step 3. Finally, click "Convert" button to start encoding MOV to MPEG-2(.mpg) for PowerDirector. After a while, you will get the converted MPEG-2 files which are ready to be imported to PowerDirector for further editing flawlessly.

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