Professional MP4 Converter: Convert MKV to MP4

You are here:

Home
Support
Tips Renee Video Editor Pro
Professional MP4 Converter: Convert MKV to MP4

6 May 2019 Ashley S. Miller Specialist of Customer Service Dept.

Summary
Although MKV is one of the popular video formats, it has a poorer compatibility than that of MP4. Users may fail to play video in MKV format. Here, we are going to get more about how to convert MKV to MP4 and related MKV edit methods.

Content

Part 1: Introduction of MKV File

Part 2: How to Convert MKV to MP4

Part 3: How to Edit MKV Video

Part 1: Introduction of MKV File

MKV, a video format of Matroska, is popular in movie and TV show. It is used to save multi-media content which could store unlimited video, audio, image, subtitles, etc. MKV files is kind of similar with AV, MP4 and ASF video.

Being an open-source and patent-free video format, MKV is well accepted in many players and devices. But some devices and players will fail to play the MKV files without specific decoder. To avoid this situation, it’d better to convert the MKV to MP4 which is with the best compatibility and can be played in most players.

Part 2: How to Convert MKV to MP4

Most video format converts cannot extract specific audio track or subtitle from the MKV video which may contains multiple audio tracks and subtitles, such as .SRT, .SSA or USF (a common subtitle file format) or even the VobSub subtitle. However, you can make it with Renee Video Editor Pro.

Renee Video Editor Pro, a multi-functions video edit tool, helps you select the desired audio track and subtitle before converting to MP4 with simple steps.

Tips Renee Video Editor can extract audio tracks, subtitle files and convert the video format with simple steps, which make it better any other video converter.

① Download and install Renee Video Editor Pro. Then open it and select “Video Toolbox”.

click video toolbox in renee video editor pro

② Click “Add Files” and select target MKV videos.

③ Select desired audio track and subtitle. Just like that in the image below:

select the desired audio and subtitle tracks

④ After that, please select “MP4” in output format and select the destination to save the output file in “Output folder”. Click “Start” to process the conversion.

It is recommended to choose “MP4 Video (*.mp4)” as the output format while Renee Video Editor Pro provides different MP4 formats for selection. And the conversion speed of output format “MP4 Video (*.mp4)” is the fastest.

Here we take a MKV video which is 1576.1MB with duration of 1 hour and 40 minutes as an example. As we can get from the chart that the conversion time of output format “MP4 Video (*.mp4)” is the fastest.

Video Format	Conversion Time	Size of the Converted MP4
MP4 Video（*.mp4）	3 minutes	1360.5MB
4k video（*.mp4）	About 10 hours	14504.6MB
MP4 1080P Video（*.mp4）	About 3 hours	2974.7MB
MP4 720P Video（*.mp4）	About 1 hour 20 mins	2254.1MB
MP4 HEVC /H.265 Video（*.mp4）	About 2 and a half hours	1360.5MB
H.264 Video（*.mp4）	About 2 and a half hours	5857.2MB

Part 3: Edit MKV Video

After converting MKV to MP4, you may want to edit the MKV videos like cutting specific parts. If so, Renee Video Editor Pro could help you as well.

Tips Renee Video Editor Pro can help you edit videos in many aspects, such as adding special effect, cutting, merge, removing watermarks, adding logos and subtitles. What’s more, it can realize automatic re-encoding and ensure audio and video synchronization, but not slow down the playback speed.

1. Cut. You can set the start and end time to crop some clips.

2. Rotate & Crop. You can rotate or cut the video screen.

rotate and crop with Renee Video Editor Pro

3. Effect. You can add filters, zoom effects and audio effects to your video.

add video effect with Renee Video Editor Pro

4. Watermark. You can use text, image, video and sharp as watermarks. In addition, you can remove unnecessary watermarks.

use watermark and watermark remover in renee video editor pro

5. Music. You can add background music to your video. Local music and dubbing are supported.

6. Subtitle. You can add subtitles and text explanations to your video.

add subtitle with Renee Video Editor Pro

Renee Video Editor Pro – Multi-function Video Editing Software

Screen Recording – Record screen and webcam in Windows computer.
Cut Videos & Audios – Users can record screen at will. User can customize the recording time, the size of the window, the resolution and the frame rate. While recording, users can adjust the speed, add customized watermark and set special effects for mouse.
Video editing – Merge, crop, rotate, cut and transform video easily. It can change and add background music, add subtitles, make the beginning and end of the film. It also can add and remove watermarks, add a variety of filter effects and so on.
Format conversion – Support to convert videos and audios into different formats.
Customize the compression mode – encoding and preservation of video and audio.
Music Function – Add background music to videos. You can create the voice over by yourself or add local music as background music.

Download Now

Relate Links :

How to Convert iPhone Video to MP4

29-04-2019

Jennifer Thatcher : Taking a great market share in smart phone market, iPhone has been widely used in our daily life....

What is the Download / Upload Video Format of YouTube?

25-04-2019

Jennifer Thatcher : YouTube, the American video website used by 1 billion users, support FLV, AVI, MOV, MP4, MKV, MPEG, 3GP,...