Convert 1080p HD video

You may have the need to do some editing on your DVD movie and convert them with the customized editing to AVI, MPEG, WMV and 3GP video. This will be very interesting, since you are creating kind of new movie all by yourself.

To edit the DVD video, you need to find a DVD decrypting application, or DVD ripping software which provides editing options as much as possible. I am using Pavtube DVD Ripper, so, today, I just take this popular DVD Ripper for example.

First, you need to import the DVD movies to the DVD ripping software.

Second, select the titles you would like to do editing and if you don’t know much about the movie you import, click the preview button to make sure that you are editing the right titles or chapters. And the hit the button of "Edit" to adjust the effect, trim or crop the videos.

Third, now let’s start the editing. Pavtube DVD Ripper offers three main editing sections, effect setting, trimming and cropping.
Effect Setting: Options are contrast, brightness for video and volume for audio.

Drag the slider bar for Brightness, Contrast, and Volume to preview the effect on the right column.
If the DVD image does not display correctly, you can tick the checkbox for "Flip" to fix it.
Remember to hit "Apply". Hit "Apply to Child Chapters" if the file you select is a title, or "Apply to All" if the file you select is a chapter. Otherwise, you may click the "Reset" button to gain the default settings.
Trim: This is intended for users to define the beginning time as well as ending time. You can trim the section you want through either defining a specific time or an ending time or drag the side bars at the two ends to clip the movie section. The later is much more convenient. Keep in mind that you must hit the button of "Apply" and "OK" or you have spend all the time in vain.

Crop: This is intended for users to crop the image.
Select an option under the drop down list of the "Letter Box", drag the dashed frame on the preview pane, or enter value on the boxes for the four positions to set the pixels you want to cut off. If the file you select to customize is a title, you can tick the checkbox for "Apply to Child Chapters" to get other files with the same settings under the "Crop" tab.

As this guide shows, you can tick several items on the major interface and apply the settings one by one, and in this way, you keep different settings for different titles or chapters, for example, you may have trim first 3 minutes of the Title1_2, the last 30 seconds of the Title1-3 etc.

To combine the sections you have selected and edited, all you need to do is to tick the checkbox of "Merge into one file" next to the format selecting box.

And finally, you will get the videos consisting of your favorite parts and with your preferred settings. Hope you could enjoy the popular DVD Ripper program! Oh,yeah!

You may have the need to do some editing on your DVD movie and convert them with the customized editing to AVI, MPEG, WMV and 3GP video. This will be very interesting, since you are creating kind of new movie all by yourself.

To edit the DVD video, you need to find a DVD decrypting application, or DVD ripping software which provides editing options as much as possible. I am using Pavtube DVD Ripper, so, today, I just take this popular DVD Ripper for example.

First, you need to import the DVD movies to the DVD ripping software.

Second, select the titles you would like to do editing and if you don’t know much about the movie you import, click the preview button to make sure that you are editing the right titles or chapters. And the hit the button of "Edit" to adjust the effect, trim or crop the videos.

Third, now let’s start the editing. Pavtube DVD Ripper offers three main editing sections, effect setting, trimming and cropping.
Effect Setting: Options are contrast, brightness for video and volume for audio.

Drag the slider bar for Brightness, Contrast, and Volume to preview the effect on the right column.
If the DVD image does not display correctly, you can tick the checkbox for "Flip" to fix it.
Remember to hit "Apply". Hit "Apply to Child Chapters" if the file you select is a title, or "Apply to All" if the file you select is a chapter. Otherwise, you may click the "Reset" button to gain the default settings.
Trim: This is intended for users to define the beginning time as well as ending time. You can trim the section you want through either defining a specific time or an ending time or drag the side bars at the two ends to clip the movie section. The later is much more convenient. Keep in mind that you must hit the button of "Apply" and "OK" or you have spend all the time in vain.

Crop: This is intended for users to crop the image.
Select an option under the drop down list of the "Letter Box", drag the dashed frame on the preview pane, or enter value on the boxes for the four positions to set the pixels you want to cut off. If the file you select to customize is a title, you can tick the checkbox for "Apply to Child Chapters" to get other files with the same settings under the "Crop" tab.

As this guide shows, you can tick several items on the major interface and apply the settings one by one, and in this way, you keep different settings for different titles or chapters, for example, you may have trim first 3 minutes of the Title1_2, the last 30 seconds of the Title1-3 etc.

To combine the sections you have selected and edited, all you need to do is to tick the checkbox of "Merge into one file" next to the format selecting box.

And finally, you will get the videos consisting of your favorite parts and with your preferred settings. Hope you could enjoy the popular DVD Ripper program! Oh,yeah!

Ever since the release of iPad, the new ‘big guy’ has been the hottest product. Screen of iPad is so good, multi-touch is amazing and colors are so vibrant that working on boring tasks also becomes enjoyable. According to Apple, iPad gives up to 10 hours of surfing the web on Wi-Fi, watching video, or listening to music. By any means, it is a great portable video player. So why not transfer you TiVo recordings to iPad? No matter where you are, whenever it is, just take out the iPad from your handbag and enjoy your favorite TV programs or football matches freely! Nice idea, isn’t it? In the following guide I would like to share with you how to get your TiVo recordings ready for iPad (iPad Wi-Fi +3G).

In order to enjoy TiVo recordings on iPad, you get to transfer TiVo to your PC and then convert the TiVo files to iPad compatible formats.

1. Transfer TiVo recordings to PC (or laptop)

Transferring TiVo recordings to PC is easy and straight-forward. All you need is a freeware by TiVo— the TiVo Desktop (download the latest version v2.8). Connect the TiVo box with your home network, and run TiVo Desktop. Click on "Pick Recordings to Transfer". Check the box next to the title of the show (or shows) you want to transfer and click on "Start Transfer". Transfer times vary, but may be as long as the show’s duration to complete the transfer.

2. Convert TiVo recordings to to iPad compatible formats.

There are too many converting tools on market, yet few do convert TiVo files. A recommended one is Pavtube Video Converter, which converts TiVo files as well as HD footages, Flash videos, Matroska container format, tec.

Before converting TiVo files, let’s take a look at the iPad-supported video formats:

H.264 video up to 720p, 30 frames per second, Main Profile level 3.1 with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats;

MPEG-4 video, up to 2.5 Mbps, 640 by 480 pixels, 30 frames per second, Simple Profile with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats;

Motion JPEG (M-JPEG) up to 35 Mbps, 1280 by 720 pixels, 30 frames per second, audio in ulaw, PCM stereo audio in .avi file format

Now please refer to the converting procedures below:

Step 1. Input Media Access Key.

Launch Pavtube Video Converter, Click on the "Option" button, switch to TiVo tab, and enter your Media Access Key. Click "OK" to confirm.

Step 2: Import TiVo files.

Now click "Add" to import all .tivo files, or you may drag and drop the *.tivo files to the window of Pavtube Video Converter.

Step 2: Select an output format for iPad, iPad 3G, or iPad Wi-Fi+3G

Click on the pull down menu of "Format" and then tap "iPad", after that, you will see three options optimized for iPad showing as below, including "iPad HD Video (*.mp4)", "iPad Video H.264 (*.MP4)", "iPad Video MPEG-4 (*.mp4)". You can select any one of them according to your own needs.

Step 3: Click "Settings" button to adjust audio and video parameters

You are allowed to adjust codec, aspect ratio, bit rate, frame rate, sample rate and audio channel in the popup window to optimize the output file quality. Following are the recommended settings to get best playback quality.

Step 4: Click "Convert" button to start conversion.

Once finished, you can get the output files for your iPad via clicking on "Open" button effortlessly. Afterwards, connect your iPad to your PC, and then sync the videos to iPad via iTunes.

If you are using Mac, please refer to Converting TiVo to iPad on Mac.

So you just have a BD-ROM drive but without Blu-ray playing program like Power DVD9 installed on your PC? Actually,you needn’t waste money on this costly BD playing software anymore, the free??media players like VLC, Media Player Classic Homecinema, etc. are able to play??your Blu-ray movie successfully after converting Blu-ray to MKV. This??tutorial will show you how to rip Blu-ray to MKV in detail, please feel free to??find a step-by-step direction.

How-to:
Step 1: Use Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripper to load Blu-ray files
Three ways are available to load Blu-ray movie – "BD/DVD ROM", "BD/DVD Folder" and "IFO/ISO".

Step 2: Select MKV as output format
Strike the pull down menu at the end of "Format", and then you will see there are multiple format presets.To select a SD MKV format, you can follow "Common Video" > "MKV (Matroska) Video (*.mkv)":

To convert Blu-ray to MKV in HD quality, you can follow "HD Video" >"MKV HD Video(*.mkv)":

Step 3: Click "Settings"button to customize video and audio parameters
All the parameters on the popup window are changeable,including codec,aspect ratio,bitrate,frame rate,sample rate,and audio channels.You are free to adjust them.Generally speaking,the higher input figures will output the better file quality,but accompanying with larger file size; the smaller figures will export the smaller file size, but with inferior file quality,that means you should make a good balance between the two factors.If you are not experienced in it, the default settings are your better choice.

Step 4: Start ripping Blu-ray to MKV

As soon as the above mentioned steps are finished,you can click "Convert" button to start ripping Blu-ray to MKV. After the conversion is done,you can click "Open" button to get the output MKV files with great ease. Hope this helps.

Tips:
1.This Blu-ray converter is capable of working with most Blu-ray discs,including AACS and BD+ protected ones, even the new MKB V17 is supported as well.

2.Guarantee audio and video in sync.

3.Users are free to select their needed subtitle and audio track (the popular Dolby TureHD Audio and DTS-HD Master Audio are supported) to convert.

4.You can use the "Trim" function to select certain Blu-ray clips to rip. And you can also take advantage of the "Crop"function to remove??black edges or change the screen size.

5.Specific effect models are provided, such as "Simple gauss blur", "Simple laplacian sharpen", "Aged film", "Flip color", and "Invert".

6.Besides adding text as watermark, images, GIF animations, and videos can also be added as watermarks to realize the picture-in-picture effect.

See the detailed manual of How to use Pavtube Blu-ray Ripper.

If you are Mac fan, Sony Handycam is not a best choice when choosing a camcorder for purchase. Basically, the HD camcorders shoot footages in AVC/ H.264 MTS format, which is not editable in most non-linear editing software. Although the latest version of Sony Vegas (published by Sony) is capable of editing MTS format, it is only designed to run on Windows Platform. Mac users have to figure out another way to settle it down. Videographers would see FCP or FCS as useful tool for audio and video editing, for amateurs who prefer to do some simple editing to their HD footages, FCE (Final Cut Express) is a better choice. This guide is written for Mac users that meet difficulties in importing Sony HDR-SR MTS footages to FCE. Why should the MTS files can not be loaded in FCE while Apple made it clearly that the Final Cut Express 4 work with AVCHD files? Surely FCE4 handles AVCHD footages shot in 1280*720 and 1440*1080. So when your footages are shot in 1920*1080, you need to convert the MTS to editable format for FCE. Hope the following guide helps.

Download the trail version of Pavtube MTS/ M2TS Converter for Mac from here if you would like to give it a shoot. The trial version converts videos with watermark on the screen and you are not advised to test with smaller video files in order to save time.

Step one. Run Pavtube MTS/ M2TS Converter for Mac. Click ‘Add’ button, browse to the AVCHD MTS footages and load them to the converter. You can check the files and take thumbnails in Preview window.

Step two. Select the items to be converted, and click on ‘Format’ bar to specify output format. FCE compatible formats such as MP4, MOV, MPG, DV, AVI can be found in the profile list. For instance, you could follow HD Video-> MOV HD Video (*.mov).

Step three. Click the ‘Settings’ button and set proper video/ audio parameters. My advice is to set the video size, bitrate and fame rate to be exactly as the footages so that you will suffer least quality degradation. For example, when the video is shot at 1920*1080, 5mbps, 30fps, you could set Size-1920*1080, Bitrate-original, Frame rate-30. If you would like to use default settings, simply skip this step.

Step four. Click the ‘Browse’ button next to the Export to field and select a location on your HDD for the output video file.

Step five. Click the ‘Convert’ button to start converting MTS files for FCE.

After conversion you can click the ‘Open’ button to locate converted video files, and edit the video footages for playback on DVD-Video players connected to your TV, as well as on Mac.

Please select the product you like from the following:

For Windows:http://www.pavtube.com/mts-converter/

Windows DVD Maker has been introduced with Windows Vista and it continues to be present in Windows 7.Generally, Windows DVD Maker is not hard to use.It has some really nice customization options which should fit basic video DVD burning needs.It is "a suite of tools to import, edit, manage, and share your digital home videos—including movies captured in the high-definition video (HDV) format" by the official site of Microsoft.Yet users may doubt if it is true when they failed to import the HD footages shot with their Canon, Sony, JVC and Panasonic cameras and camcorders.Well, it is true that the Windows DVD Maker handles with high-definition video, but unfortunately it does not work most of the HD video clips because of their uncommon formats (mostly MPEG and H.264 encoded *.mod, *.tod, *.mts, *.mov files). In order to burn the HD (especially AVCHD) footages with Windows DVD Maker, you have to convert the videos to compatible formats for Windows DVD Maker.

Files Types Supported By Windows DVD Maker
Let’s take a look at the types of files which can be burned with Windows DVD Maker:

-Video files: *.asf, *.avi, *.dvr-ms, *.m1v, *.mp2v, *.mpe, *.mpeg, *.mpg, *.mpv2, *.wm, and *.wmv.

-Audio files: *.aif, *.aifc, *.aiff, *.asf, *.au, *.mp2, *.mp3, *.mpa, *.snd, *.wav, and *.wma.

-Picture files: *.bmp, *.dib, *.emf, *.gif, *.jfif, *.jpe, *.jpeg, *.jpg, *.png, *.tif, *.tiff, and *.wmf.

Convert HD MTS, TOD, MOV, MOD to be compatible with Windows DVD Maker
Among the versatile video converting tools on market, Pavtube HD Video Converter is a top one for you to convert HD footages taken with over majority cams at high quality. It also allows you to adjust the advanced parameters like bitrate, resolution, audio channels, etc. In the following guide I will show you how to convert HD footages to Windows DVD Maker supported formats with least quality loss.

Step 1. Getting started
Transfer the footages you’d like to edit from camcorder or memory card to PC. Install and launch HD Converter, click “Add” to load the HD video clips, or directly drag the files into file list. By default, the files are selected. You could view the files in preview window, simply highlight the file and click play button.

Step 2. Adjusting audio and video settings
Click “Settings” and customize advanced audio and video parameters. Now that we are converting HD files (MTS, MOV, TOD) for burning with Windows DVD Maker, you may click on the format bar and follow HD Video->HD WMV/ AVI/ MPEG-2 and then customize the advanced video and audio parameters. Take HD WMV as example, for the users who are unwilling to degrade the HD video quality, a recommended configuration could be Video at 1280*720p (or 960*540), 12800kbps, 29.97fps, and set Audio at 48000 Hz, 256 kbps, 5.1 channels. The original footages you have taken may be a full HD 1920*1080, but as we are talking about burning DVD, it is not a best choice to maintain the original resolution, since the full HD video fits for blu-ray disc rather than standard DVD.

Step 3. Converting HD footages to Windows DVD Maker supported formats
Click on “Convert” button and the Pavtube HD Video Converter will starts converting HD footages to compatible formats for Windows DVD Maker. You could set auto shutdown in progress window or leave it there and come back later.

Burn converted video clips with Windows DVD Maker
After conversion you can burn the converted videos with Windows DVD Maker now:

Step 1. Click the "Start" button and select "Windows DVD Maker" to run the program, then click the "Add items" button from the top menu and browse to the folder were the movies you want to burn are located. By default, they should be found in the "Videos" folder.

Step 2. Select the videos you want to burn and type the "Disc title". Also, you may select the order in which the movies will be saved on DVD. To do that, select a movie and press the "Up" or "Down" button to change its order.

Step 3. If you want to, you can click the "Options" button and set things like the burning speed, the aspect ratio, the video format or you can choose if the DVD will have a menu or not. After you finished making the settings you want, click the "OK" button and then "Next".

Step 4. At this step you can create a custom DVD menu or you can select a predefined one. To select a predefined menu, scroll the "Menu Styles" list and select the one you like most. You can customize it by pressing the "Customize Menu" button and making the settings you want. Also, you can change the menu text by clicking the "Menu text"button and typing the text you want for each button.

Step 5. When you have finished making all the customizations, click the "Burn" button.

First, Windows DVD Maker will encode the movie in the appropriate format and then it will burn it on DVD.Usually, the encoding process takes much more time than the burning so you have to patient.

iMovie is an useful and powerful tool for Mac users.You can bring video into iMovie from a variety of sources and devices so as to organize,catalog and edit the video,then share your movies with friends and family on the web, Mac or portable devices easily. However,you can not edit all the videos in iMovie.Today you can use a multiple of video devices to shoot video and get even more from web, which are in various formats.Although iMovie works with the emerging generation of video recording devices, there are some formats that are not supported.M4V is one of the few formats that iMovie will not work with. You have to convert M4V files to iMovie compatible format before you can import them to the software. This guide aims to shows how to convert M4V files to MPEG which is compatible with iMovie.Please find a step-by-step guide below.

In order to convert M4V files, you need a Mac Video Converter. And I recommend you Pavutbe Video Converter for Mac,which not only converts among versatile media formats, but also allows you to set video codec, bit rarte, frame rate, resolution, audio codec,sampling rate,channels, etc.

Step One.Load source files.
Run Video Converter for Mac and click on “Add” to import M4V files, browse to source video folder and click “Choose”.In preview window you could view the video and take snapshots. When the box of Merge into one is checked, all selected videos will be combined together as one output file after conversion.

(Tip: you can click “Edit” button to perform edit functions such as crop, trim, flip, effect, watermark and audio replace. To eliminate interlacing effect, simply check Deinterlacing box under Effect tab.)

Step 2: Set Output format.
Click on “Format” bar when you’d like to specify an output format. As iMovie supports MPEG-2, MPEG-4, AVCHD, DV and QuickTime format, you may select Common Video-> MPEG-2/ MPEG-4. MOV format is an alternative choice for your preference. If you want to further customize video and audio parameters such as video codec, audio codec, frame rate, bit rate, video size,audio channels etc, please click “Settings” to cofig them. Do not forget to click on “OK” to confirm your settings.In Export to box you could specify destination for the converted file.

Step 3:Start converting M4V to MPEG.
Click on “Convert” button to start Conversion.The converter will generate MPEG file with admirable video quality. After converting M4V to MPEG you can edit the converted files in iMovie freely. See how to edit video in iMovie.

I have often seen people asking questions like I have a Sony HDR-SR5, or some other AVCHD camcorders such as Canon HF11, JVC GZ-HD10, Panasonic HDC-SD5, etc, but I failed to import the video files copied from my camcorder in the format of .mts or .m2ts for playback on my iPod, iPhone, or some other common used mobile players, is there anyone can give me some suggestions? Question like this seems endless, for there are always people keeping asking these similar questions without an end. This time when I read this question, I couldn’t stop myself giving you people a solution.
Firstly I should tell you that most portable devices can not read .mts or .m2ts files directly, if you want to play them on your mobile devices like iPod, iPhone, etc. without trouble, you have to convert them into their acceptable format like MP4 previously.

This article aims to tell you how to convert MTS or M2TS to iPod, iPhone, etc. compatible formats with Pavtube MTS/M2TS Converter for Mac. If you are an above question asker, please read on the following step-by-step guide at will.
1. Install and run Pavtube MTS/M2TS Converter for Mac
Once you’ve run it, a sky-blue interface will appear as follow:

2. Import MTS or M2TS files to it, as well as set output format and destination folder
Click “Add” to import MTS or M2TS files, and at the same time, you can click the drop-down list of “Format” to select whatever format you need, like MP4 for iPod, iPhone, WMV for Zune player, or some other formats, what you should choose is depending on which format your portable device is supporting. Also, you can click “Browse” to decide where to load the output files. Moreover, if you want to integrate several files to be one single file, you can check “Merge into one file”.

3. Set advanced settings
If you have higher expectations about the resulted file, you can click “Settings” to adjust the parameters of video or audio on the below window. For example, you can set the screen size of the output videos, or change bit rate to adjust the quality or size of the output files.

4. Convert
Click button “Convert”, you will see the following window. It shows you the converting process as well as generated size and estimated size of the converting file, so that you can make sure if there ere enough space on your Mac to save the output files.

Additional tips:
What is MTS/M2TS?

Before talk about MTS/M2TS, AVCHD have to be mentioned at first. AVCHD is a tapeless HD format developed by Sony and Panasonic in May, 2006. AVCHD video is compressed in MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 format, and it supports 720p, 1080i, 1080p, etc. At the same time, AVCHD audio is stored in compressed form Dolby AC-3. Well, what is the relationship between AVCHD and MTS/M2TS? If you are attentive enough, you will find AVCHD is with file extension .mts on camcorder and with .m2ts after import to computer.

I have often seen people asking questions like I have a Sony HDR-SR5, or some other AVCHD camcorders such as Canon HF11, JVC GZ-HD10, Panasonic HDC-SD5, etc, but I failed to import the video files copied from my camcorder in the format of .mts or .m2ts for playback on my iPod, iPhone, or some other common used mobile players, is there anyone can give me some suggestions? Question like this seems endless, for there are always people keeping asking these similar questions without an end. This time when I read this question, I couldn’t stop myself giving you people a solution.
Firstly I should tell you that most portable devices can not read .mts or .m2ts files directly, if you want to play them on your mobile devices like iPod, iPhone, etc. without trouble, you have to convert them into their acceptable format like MP4 previously.

This article aims to tell you how to convert MTS or M2TS to iPod, iPhone, etc. compatible formats with Pavtube MTS/M2TS Converter for Mac. If you are an above question asker, please read on the following step-by-step guide at will.
1. Install and run Pavtube MTS/M2TS Converter for Mac
Once you’ve run it, a sky-blue interface will appear as follow:

2. Import MTS or M2TS files to it, as well as set output format and destination folder
Click “Add” to import MTS or M2TS files, and at the same time, you can click the drop-down list of “Format” to select whatever format you need, like MP4 for iPod, iPhone, WMV for Zune player, or some other formats, what you should choose is depending on which format your portable device is supporting. Also, you can click “Browse” to decide where to load the output files. Moreover, if you want to integrate several files to be one single file, you can check “Merge into one file”.

3. Set advanced settings
If you have higher expectations about the resulted file, you can click “Settings” to adjust the parameters of video or audio on the below window. For example, you can set the screen size of the output videos, or change bit rate to adjust the quality or size of the output files.

4. Convert
Click button “Convert”, you will see the following window. It shows you the converting process as well as generated size and estimated size of the converting file, so that you can make sure if there ere enough space on your Mac to save the output files.

Additional tips:
What is MTS/M2TS?

Before talk about MTS/M2TS, AVCHD have to be mentioned at first. AVCHD is a tapeless HD format developed by Sony and Panasonic in May, 2006. AVCHD video is compressed in MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 format, and it supports 720p, 1080i, 1080p, etc. At the same time, AVCHD audio is stored in compressed form Dolby AC-3. Well, what is the relationship between AVCHD and MTS/M2TS? If you are attentive enough, you will find AVCHD is with file extension .mts on camcorder and with .m2ts after import to computer.