Here is a basic and details guide to show the simplest Mac solution to transfer 1080p/720p MKV movies to iPad Air with best video settings.

The latest released iPad Air and iPad mini with Retina Display no doubt add more fun to your digital entertainment. However, the iPad Air tablet supports limited video formats, in which common video such as MKV, RMVB, VOB, AVCHD, FLV, etc are not included. This means your video collections in these formats can not be transferred to iPad Air for playback.

Wanna put your 1080p/720p MKV video collections to iPad Air? An iPad Air Video Converter will work for your needs, since it converts MKV to iPad Air optimized format. Being a professional Mac vdieo converter program, Pavtube Video Converter for Mac is highly recommended to help you finish the MKV to iPad Air conversion task on Mac perfectly. This Mac MKV to iPad Air converter offers quite effective solution for you to convert 1080p/720p MKV videos to iPad Air friendly videos on Mac without quality loss

Most MKV movies include multiple subtitles, while this MKV to iPad Air converter for Mac allows you to add your preferred subtitles as you like and retain all subtitles from source MKV movies. This Mac video converter performs far more than an Mac MKV to iPad Air converter, but also a comprehensive video converter program for Mac users to carry out any conversion on Mac between various formats like MP4, AVI, FLV, MKV, MOV, etc. in simple clicks.

For Windows users, Pavtube offers freeware MKV to iPad Air converter to convert MKV to iPad Air in lossless quality. Windows users can get 20% off MKV to iPad Air Converter here.

Download a free trial before purchase without time/function limits. Check the following guide to know how to convert MKV to iPad Air on Mac.

Tutorials: How to transcode 1080p/720p MKV to MP4 for iPad Air on Mac?

Step 1: Run this Pavtube Video Converter for Mac as Mac MKV to iPad Air Converter; add videos.

You can choose to import videos or the entire folder by clicking the top left two icons.

Step 2. Choose format.

Click “Format” drop-down list and choose “iPad -> iPad HD Video(*.mp4)” as the compatible MP4 preset with best video quality. Or you can choose other presets if you don’t need 1080p videos.

Step 3. Customize video specs (Optional).

Click “Settings” to free change video resolution, bitrate(quality), frame rate and other settings. Note that if you need to get videos in smaller size (especially when you own a 16GB model), you are suggested to turn down bitrate settings; the generated video size could also be found in this window.

Step 4. Start Conversion.

You can hit the big red “Convert” to start converting 1080p/720p MKV to MP4 with best video settings for iPad Air on Mac. After the conversion, click “Open output folder” in the conversion window, or “Open” in main interface to quick locate the converted video.

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Additonal Tips:

If your movie isn’t already in one of the iPad Air supported formats or it’s still on a DVD or a Blu-ray, you can get the 20% off  iMedia Converter for Mac which can help you rip Blu-ray/DVD, and convert various formats of 720p/1080p HD videos in MKV, AVI, TiVo, VOB, MPG, MTS, etc. to your iPad Air, iPhone 5C, iPhone 5S, iPad 4, iPad 3, iPod 5 and other iOS devices for smoothly playing.

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