[header] How to make successful video conversion on mac [title] Understand some basic knowledge. [substeps] A thick tedious book full of abstract scientific terms is needed to know what each video format means and the details how various video formats are created. But we don't have to be a scientist in order to make a video conversion, some basic knowledge is enough. 
Most video files have at least two different types: the container, and the codec. A container format is a computer file format that can contain various types of data, compressed in a manner of standardized codecs.