The following guide will guide you step-by-step to convert any video MOV, MKV, WMV, FLV, MP4, MXF, MTS to H.264 MP4 to import to GoPro Studio in “Step 1: Import & Convert”. Due to codec issue, some MP4 or MOV files fail to import to GoPro Studio, you can also follow the guide to reconvert your files to GoPro Studio MP4. Step 2 – Converting an MP4 file to AVI. Click the +Video button in the upper left corner of Freemake, and find the MP4 file that you want to convert.

Adding (additional information like: poster/cover image, chapter titles, movie synopsis, actors, etc) to an existing MP4 or M4V file is not a requirement. It does however make your MP4 or M4V shine when viewed on devices or programs that read the metadata. You might have seen it when you bought a movie or music clip from: It has a nice little poster, with proper title and movie description, actors, proper chapter names, etc).

In this article I’ll show you how you can do this adding of metadata or “ Tagging” yourself under MacOS X, Windows, and even Linux. Adding Metadata to an MP4 As you might already know, an MP4 file is in fact a so called container that can contain multiple “files” (as a figure of speech). Audio, Video, Subtitles and a list of chapters. The same way we can add the so called Metadata – we just need the right tools for it. Note: Other so called “container” files like AVI, WMV, MOV, WMV and MKV have comparable options to add metadata.

Sometimes they do require a different applications to do this though. Below a short list of possible tools, based on Operating System: • • • Before and After adding Metadata Just an illustration (based on iTunes) what the difference with and without metadata can look like. ITunes After Metadata was added MacOS X – MetaZ Although there appears to be a version for MacOS X as well, rumor is that it’s kind-a “dead”. Not sure if this is true but a remake of MetaX called is the tool we’ll be using here.

Alternatives are and, neither of them are free but iFlicks does offer a trial version. Unlike the Windows MetaX, MetaZ is only geared towards the tagging of MP4 (and M4V) files, maybe because AVI and WMV files are not commonly used on Mac’s. If you have AVI or WMV files laying around, consider them to MP4 or M4V. We do offer MetaZ as a download, but as always we’d like to urge you to go to the homepage and get the most recent version.

And as for hardware, click this link if you want to. Casey (Surname withheld for contractual and professional reasons) has contributed many great articles on thetechmentor.com. Is there another Mac Disk Repair utility you’d suggest? What Mac OS X repair tools do you like? Please leave a comment to help others, or if the above tools have helped you. Best utilities for a mac.

Start MetaZ and drop files in the “Files to Write” area Adding files is easy: either press COMMAND + O to select files, or drag the file(s) to the “ Files to write” list on the right side of the MetaZ window (as illustrated above) or drop the files on the MetaZ icon in the dock. Next click the file (on the right) that you’d like to work on. MetaZ will use the filename as a guess to what the title of the movie could be, which you can see in the “ Search” box. There you can correct the title to search for (press Enter to start the search). A partial of the title will work as well, but keep in mind that the partial is not too generic. For example just “Star Trek” will produce quite a long list.

Double click the best matching title in the list under the search box. MetaZ will no pre-populate the fields with the information it found on the Internet (using, and others). Click through the different tabs, “Info”, “Video”, “Sorting”, “Advanced” and “Chapters” to verify the information. Pretty cool though, there is a nice little poster of the DVD and the chapters even have titles. MetaZ – Retrieved Movie information Once you’re satisfied with the found information, make sure the checkmarks next to the boxes (especially on the “Info”, “Video” and “Chapters”) are checked! Finally click the “ Write” icon to write the metadata to your movie file.