VideoProc Converter AI 8.13 (macOS)

Video files from different cameras, phones, and online sources rarely come in the format you need. You end up juggling a converter, a compressor, a screen recorder, and maybe an AI upscaler. VideoProc Converter AI v8.3 bundles all of that into one app that runs on both Intel and Apple Silicon Macs, down to macOS 10.15.

What the standout features do

The conversion engine handles video, photo, and audio files, with support for subtitles, watermarks, and effects. If the file is too big, you can compress it by up to 90% without the kind of quality loss that makes the result unusable. The AI upscaling module pushes footage to 4K or 8K, and there are presets for Instagram, YouTube, and TikTok so you don't have to guess the export settings. Trimming, merging, and splitting are all included.

Recording and downloading

You can capture the Mac screen with voice commentary, and the app records from both built-in and external webcams. The Downloader module has been improved in the current version, and version 8.12 adds iPhone 18 support and a reduced installer size. The app also supports macOS 27.

For teachers mixing screen recordings and compressed student streams

This tends to suit people who handle media files from more than one source. A few regular types:

• Teachers and lecturers – recording a lesson from the Mac screen, then compressing the file so students can stream it without a fast connection. The voice commentary feature saves them having to dub over the video later.
• YouTube or TikTok creators – filming in 4K on a mirrorless camera, then needing an export that fits the platform's spec.
• Archivists and family historians – working with older footage from VHS transfers or DV tapes. The denoising and AI upscaling are what they reach for, and the format support means they can output ProRes or HEVC without a separate transcode.
• Podcasters and audio editors – they might not need the video side at all, but the audio conversion handles MP3, AAC, and FLAC, and there is volume levelling and bitrate adjustment in one dialog.

Scenario: converting footage for a school project

One of the art teachers at the school I work at shoots a lot of process video – students painting, sculpting, working in the darkroom. The files come off a Sony camera in 4K XAVC S, which is fine for editing but too large to put on the VLE. The teachers do not want to re-edit, they just want a smaller file in a format the school's iPads can play.

With VideoProc Converter AI, they drop the clip into the conversion window, pick the iPad preset (or a custom MP4 with HEVC compression), and let the hardware acceleration do the work. The file size usually drops by about 70–80%, and the iPad plays it back without a stutter. No re-exporting from Premiere, no handbrake encoding chain.

Typical session: what using it looks like

A typical afternoon for someone editing a tutorial video might go like this. Open the app; drag in a 30‑minute screen recording that was captured with the Mac's own QuickTime Player and saved as a massive MOV file. First, trim the first and last couple of minutes where nothing happens – the trimming is done on the timeline, not a separate tool. Then apply the stabilisation, because the mouse cursor was getting jittery. Add a subtitle track with the step numbers.

Next, grab an AI upscaling pass to sharpen a section of the screen that was recorded at a lower resolution. That is one operation, not a chain of exports. Finally, choose the HEVC preset for YouTube in the export dialog, name the file, and let it run. The app handles the encode in the background without locking the interface.

For the same session, if you also need to grab a clip from a YouTube video to illustrate a point, the Downloader module handles that inside the same session. You paste the link, choose between video or audio only, and the file lands in the same output folder. No switching to another app, no copy-paste round trip. The whole workflow stays inside one window.

• Added iPhone 18 support.
• Reduced installer size.
• Improved Downloader performance.
• Added support for macOS 27.

• macOS 10.15 or later
• 64-bit processor (Intel or Apple Silicon)