How to Convert Video Files on Mac/Windows

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Nowadays, people can enjoy videos in different ways, such as youtube.com and other online video websites, iPod/Zune and other portable players, and also play video on computer, and you can also make you own videos with windows movie make or iMovie for Mac users. So how to convert videos between different video formats is a big problem for both windows and Mac users. Today I will share you guys two powerful video converter for Mac and Windows users.

For Mac users, this powerful video converter for mac is really nice.
Let's use it to convert a video for Example

Step 1: Add File
Click “Add File” button to load the video you want to converter

Step 2: Choose profile and adjust settings
You can find your output video format from a drop-list called “Profile”
You can also adjust the specific settings of the output video, such as “Resolution”, “Bitrate”, “Encoder” and so on.

Step 3: Edit Video
1. Effect:
You can adjust the “Brightness”, “Contrast”, “Saturation” and “Volume”

2. Trim:
You are allowed to pick up any part of the video to convert.

3. Crop:
To remove the black edges and choose a play area to convert.

Step 4: Start Conversion
Click “Start” button to begin your conversion and you will get your video soon.

For Windows users, you need Total Video Converter.

Step 1: Load Video
You can load your videos into the converter by clicking “Add File”

Step 2: Choose output info
This converter provides you many output profiles for you to choose, you can choose your output profiles according to your need. And also you can just choose a certain video format.

You can also adjust the settings of your output profiles. You can even save a certain settings as your own output settings.

Step 3: Conversion
Click “Start” button to begin your conversion and few mins later you can get your video.

Tips: How to effect, trim and crop the video to improve your output video quality.
After your Load your video you can click “Effect” button to access the effect panel

1: Effect
Adjust the video effect as you want: Brightness, Contrast, Saturation and Deinterlacing.

2: Trim
Clip your video, pick up any part of your video to convert.
You have 3 ways to do trim:

1.Dragging the slider

2.Controlling the “Trim From” and “Trim To” button

3.Setting the Start and End time

3: Crop
Adjust video size, Cut off the black edge of your video to let you enjoy your movie in full screen by click the 'Crop' button
You have 2 ways to do crop:

1.Move your mouse cursor onto one of the eight small adjustment boxes on the cropping frame and drag the crop frame to crop the video such as cutting off top and bottom black bar. The cropped result will be shown on the Output Preview at the same time

2.Type the value directly or set the value in "Left", "Right" and "Cropped area size" area to set the position of the cropping frame.

You can also select the aspect ratio from the Zoom Mode drop-down list. There are 4 choices for you: Full Screen, 16:9, 4:3 and Keep Original.

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DVD Copy for Mac

reconry · Posted: Fri Oct 09, 2009 1:29 pm Post subject:

Backup your DVD movies and home-made DVD to another DVD disc/DVD Folder/ISO image File, i use Aiseesoft DVD Copy. it can help you to copy DVD-5 video to DVD-5 format, copy DVD-9 to DVD-9 in 1:1 ratio exactly and compress DVD-9 video to DVD-5 format. It can not only copy DVD but copy DVD disk to DVD folder or ISO image files for backup and other use. Burn local DVD Folders or ISO image Files to DVD disk is also available.
Key Feature:
1. Choose for copy the whole DVD or the main movie
2. Compatible with all DVD formats
3. More specific settings

I have used many dvd ripping software, but i think this DVD Ripper is the best. it is fast[Provide the fastest conversion speed (>300%)] and easy to use. it can help you to rip your DVD to MP4, H.264, AVI, MP3, WMV, WMA, FLV, MKV, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, 3GP, 3GPP, VOB, DivX, Mov, RM, RMVB, M4A, AAC, WAV, etc.

key Feature:
1. Trim DVD freely
2. Setting output video and audio parameters
3. Merge into one file
4. Crop your video
5. Capture your favorite image

Nowadays, hd video is widely used in hd camcorder. But there are not many video converter can convert them, here i know a really nice M2TS Converter. it can help you to convert M2TS to AVI, MP4, WMV, 3GP and all the popular video formats. It also natively supports converting MTS, TS, TOD, MOD and more. it can convert hd video to normal video format, but also can convert video between normal video formats, such as mp4, wmv, avi, mov, 3gp, flv, mkv, mpeg and so on.

Key Feature:
1. Unmatched Video Editing Feature
Get your desired video quality by modifying video Brightness, Contrast, Saturation. With it, you also can apply your modified standard to all the movies
2. Improve the effects of interlacing video by using deinterlacing
3. Cut any clip of video (Trim) and Crop Video Size
4. Merge several videos into one file
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reconry · Posted: Sat Oct 10, 2009 2:06 am Post subject:

Here, I share a good AVCHD Video Converter--Aiseesoft AVCHD Converter.
It provides the function to convert other HD videos to AVCHD which owns high definition video quality and less spaces. This
AVCHD Converter also assists you to convert AVCHD video to other formats for better editing or something else.
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reconry · Posted: Sat Oct 10, 2009 1:42 pm Post subject:

Make my own ringtone for my iPhone i use Aiseesoft iPhone Ringtone Maker

if you are a Mac user:
try this iPhone Ringtone Maker for Mac
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DVD Copy for Mac

reconry · Posted: Sun Oct 11, 2009 3:40 am Post subject:

Most people has the habit of collecting DVD movies, however, the disc is really easy to be broken. it is really hard to protect them. So i backup my DVD collection on my computer. i watch the movies whenever i want. i use this DVD Ripper to help me.
it can convert dvd to any video format you want, such as: mp4, wmv, avi, mov, mkv, flv, 3gp and so on. Here i also recommend you a really powerful Video Converter. it can convert all videos to different formats.
More, I use DVD to iPod Converter to put my DVD on my iPod easily.
it is really fast and easy to use
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reconry · Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2009 1:34 pm Post subject:

Most people has the habit of collecting DVD movies, however, the disc is really easy to be broken. it is really hard to protect them. So i backup my DVD collection on my computer. i watch the movies whenever i want. i use this DVD Ripper to help me.
it can convert dvd to any video format you want, such as: mp4, wmv, avi, mov, mkv, flv, 3gp and so on. Here i also recommend you a really powerful Video Converter. it can convert all videos to different formats.
More, I use DVD to iPod Converter to put my DVD on my iPod easily.
it is really fast and easy to use
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reconry · Posted: Tue Oct 13, 2009 2:06 am Post subject:

MTS Converter is a really nice converter that can convert your MTS file to other video format, it is also a HD Video Converter that can convert M2TS, TS and other HD video. it also has powerful video editing functions, such as effect, trim, crop, merge ans so on.
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reconry · Posted: Tue Oct 13, 2009 1:27 pm Post subject:

Several day ago, I saw a dvd ripper on www.stumbleupon.com, then I had a free trial and found the image and sound quality are both quite good. It can easily rip DVD to almost popular video formats, such as MP4, H.264, AVI, WMV, FLV, MKV, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, 3GP, 3GPP, VOB, DivX, MOV, RM, RMVB, DPG, etc, it can even rip DVD to HD video.
And it's easy to use, just few clicks. If you don't know how to use, you can visit this article, which tell you how to
rip dvd to video/audio files.
And if you are mac users, you can have also have a try this dvd ripper for Mac.
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reconry · Posted: Wed Oct 14, 2009 1:17 pm Post subject:

Always want to watch my movies on my Nintendo. Now i found a really powerful DPG Converter. it can convert all the movie format to DPG format for Nintendo. and there is also a DPG Converter for Mac. and if you want to put your DVD movies on your Nintendo, it is easy. DVD to DPG Converter will help you to do that.
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reconry · Posted: Thu Oct 15, 2009 2:17 am Post subject:

Here, I share a best Video Converter for Mac, which can convert between all popular video and audio formats with super fast conversion speed and high output quality, such as AVI, MP4, MOV, MKV, WMV, DivX, XviD, MPEG-1/2, 3GP, 3G2, VOB and HD Video (TS, MTS, M2TS), MP3, AAC, and AC3 Audio etc.
And if you're windows users, you can have a try this Total Video Converter.

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