Export MOV to MP4 with Quicktime on Yosemite

I have a screen capture of my computer screen using QuickTime's Screen Recording feature, but that saves it to an MOV format. I'd like to export it to MP4. Is that possible without installing anything else?

I'm using Yosemite, and I'm pretty sure I could do that with Mavericks.

Solution 1:

After having your screen recorded and the file in MOV format, you could use iMovie to convert it to MP4.

• open the file in iMovie
• File / Share / File...
• adjust your preferences in the dialog box
• press "Next..."
• the created file will be in MP4

Hope this helps. Cheers!

Solution 2:

If you have ffmpeg installed, it is quite easy to do it

ffmpeg -i input.mov output.mp4

If you don't, install it as follows:

• Press Command + Space, type "Terminal" and press enter/return key.

• Run this command in the Terminal app:

  ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"
  

  and press enter/return key.

  If the screen prompts you to enter a password, enter your Mac's user password to continue. When you type the password, it won't be displayed on the screen, but the system would accept it. So just type your password and press ENTER/RETURN key. Then wait for the command to finish.

• After that, run:

  brew install ffmpeg
  

• Done! You can now run ffmpeg -i input.mov output.mp4.

(For more information, you can refer to this site, or you can go directly to the official FFmpeg website: ffmpeg.org.)