HT3775 how can i convert an AVI video file to work on my iMac?

I have just bought an imac and am trying to put my movies on to the mac from a microsoft machine. A lot of them are in AVI or MKV formats and I want to know if there is a converter I can download on my imac which will convert these files? Any help would be gratefully received.

If you just want to move these avi and mkv files to play on iMac, you can download VLC player, it plays just every file format.
http://www.videolan.org
For converting files to Mac readable format, I use this one all the time:
http://www.appgeeker.com/how-to/convert-avi-to-mp4-mac.html
It supports handling multiple files at a time. one of my cameras record in .AVI format and i bulk convert to .mp4 or h264.

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