Download Wondershare UniConverter for macOS

Video editors, home-movie archivists, and anyone with a bulging folder of mismatched clips tend to pick up UniConverter. It is less a single-purpose tool and more a workbench for wrangling media on a Mac.

159 formats, DVD rips, and HEVC prep

• Converting between over 159 video and audio formats without hunting for a new encoder each time.
• Pulling video straight from a DVD and saving it as a standard file—no extra ripping apps needed.
• Prepping HEVC/H.265 footage so modern cameras and 4K sources land in a format your editor actually likes.
• Burning finished projects or raw files to a playable DVD disc.
• Beaming video to an iPhone or Android device wirelessly, skipping the USB cable hunt.
• Splitting a long recording into segments or merging several clips into one clean file.
• Handling DRM-protected purchases when you need an offline copy in a universal format.

macOS 10.11 minimum and the iTunes limitation

• Official macOS support starts at OS X 10.11; the current build runs natively on both ARM and 64-bit Intel Macs.
• While the toolkit can update an iTunes library and extract metadata during transfer, the full DVD-to-iTunes flow requires a few extra clicks.
• The interface groups tools in a single window—handy, but it rewards a quick explore before you start your first conversion.

Auto-strip letterbox bars from any film

The crop tool does more than trim edges. Drag a preset from the dropdown and it strips letterbox bars from a widescreen film automatically—no guesswork measuring black rows. While the preview plays, right-click the frame and Save Snapshot grabs a still to your desktop. That alone covers a dozen quick-thumbnail tasks.

In the conversion queue, hover over any file row. A tiny film-strip icon appears; click it to scrub through the clip before committing to a long encode. The wireless-transfer pane keeps a short device history, so a second send to the same iPhone skips the pairing dance. And if you regularly convert to the same three presets, pin them via the star icon inside the format picker. They then sit at the top of the list for every session.

Final Cut Pro and iMovie export presets included

UniConverter’s codec library slips native presets straight into iMovie and Final Cut Pro. Once installed, the formats appear inside those apps’ share and export sheets, meaning a timeline can be written out as a compact HEVC without leaving the editor. The app also talks to iTunes; during a batch conversion, tick Transfer to iTunes and the files land in your library with metadata intact—artist, album, artwork all pulled from the source if available.

On the system side, the app respects macOS colour profiles. A wide-gamut P3 display shows video previews without a saturation shift. Drag a clip onto the Dock icon and UniConverter opens directly to the conversion pane with that file loaded. Finder tags survive a round-trip, so a green-tagged “client review” file stays tagged after re-encoding. And because the current build is universal, activity monitor shows a clean Apple Silicon process with no Rosetta translation in sight.

A workflow: DVD to iPad, ready for a flight

Say you have a DVD of a documentary you want on an iPad for a long-haul trip. Here is a path that takes about four clicks once you know the steps.

1. Insert the disc, open UniConverter and choose DVD Burner—the label is misleading, but it is also where ripping lives. Select DVD to Video.
2. The app reads the disc and lists the main title plus any extras. Pick the title and set the output format to Apple iPad Pro (H.264) from the device presets.
3. Before hitting Convert, open the crop panel. Apply the 16:9 preset to remove any hard-coded black bars from the old transfer.
4. Back in the main window, enable Transfer to iTunes at the bottom. Convert. When the progress bar finishes, the file is already in your TV app library, tagged and ready to sync to the iPad over Wi‑Fi.

No extra app touched the file between the disc tray and the iPad home screen.

Warm up the engine with a 10-second test file

Start with a small test file—10 seconds of anything—and convert it to three different presets (H.264, HEVC, and a device preset). This warms up the engine and confirms all codecs are active. Next, open Preferences and set the default output folder to a dedicated “Converted” directory; otherwise files scatter into the Movies folder and pile up fast.

If you work with 4K sources, spend a minute in the quality slider panel. The default is 90% for most presets, which is generous. Dropping to 78% trims file size noticeably while keeping a clean image on a laptop screen. For DVD rips, enable High-Speed Conversion only when you trust the source disc is scratch-free—it remuxes rather than re-encodes, saving half an hour but amplifying any read errors.

Finally, pin your most-used format presets on day one. The interface rewards a setup session upfront; once the home pane shows your custom shortlist, the daily flow shrinks to drag, pick, convert.

• Now runs on OS X 10.11 and up, with native support for Apple Silicon and 64-bit Intel Macs.

• OS X 10.11 or later
• Apple Silicon or Intel (64-bit) Mac