November 10th, 2009
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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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Written by panybieat on November 10th, 2009 with 1 comment.
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The following article will share with you four ways of removing DRM protection from iTunes music on Mac OS X. You can choose your favorite method to help you convert iTunes M4P music to MP3 or (DRM free) AAC format for playback on MP3 Player, MP4 Player, Mobile Phone Player, etc.
Method 1. Remove DRM from iTunes music with burning-and-ripping method
1. Insert a CD-R or CD-RW disc into your CD-ROM drive
2. Run iTunes, create a new playlist and burn it to make an “Audio CD”
3. After the Audio CD is successfully burned, insert the disc into your CD-ROM drive again. Then you can use iTunes to import the music tracks on the burned disc as whatever format (MP3, AAC, etc) you selected in iTunes preferences for importing.
Method 2. Remove DRM from iTunes music with Virtual CD Burner
You will need to download TuneClone Audio Converter for Mac first. Run this DRM Removal Software and it will let you install a virtual CD burner, which will be used to convert iTunes music files.
Run iTunes, create a new playlist and add the DRM protected iTunes songs to the playlist.
Right click this playlist and choose “Burn Playlist to Disc”. Alternatively, you can click the “Burn Disc” button at the lower right corner of iTunes interface.
In the pop-up dialog of “Burn Settings”, select “CDWriter TuneClone” as default CD Burner, choose “Audio CD” as Disc Format and tick “Include CD Text” ( to perserve the music metadata such as name, artist, album names ).
Tip: You can easily get the output MP3 files on your Mac machine by clicking the “Reveal in Finder” button on the manager screen.
Method 3. Remove DRM from iTunes music with iMovie ‘09
Run iMovie and create a New Project. In the iMovie window, select the ‘Music’ tab. You will notice that the top right portion of the interface now offers a media browser. Locate the playlist which contains purchased music, or search by artist/title.
Select the DRM-laden song and drag the file from the media browser into the iMovie timeline.
In order to export the song, iMovie requires that a visual image be associated with the audio track - iMovie thinks that it is going to be exporting a movie. Simply drag a blank image (or any other image) to the track above the previously imported audio file. Once iMovie has processed the image, select the ‘Export using QuickTime…’ sub menu item from found inside ‘Share’ in iMovie’s menu bar.
In the Save as… dialogue, select “Sound to AIFF” in the Export drop-down menu, Choose an appropriate directory for iMovie to export to, title the file, and select ‘Save’.
Locate the exported AIFF audio file and drag to your iTunes Library. Right-click on the file and select “Create MP3 Version”. Once completed, ‘Get Info’ on the new file, edit meta data, add album art, and trash the originally purchased and AIFF audio files from your iTunes library.
Method 4. Remove DRM from iTunes music with FairGame
FairGame is freeware to remove DRM protection from iTunes music on Mac OS X. It will convert the DRMed songs you bought on the iTunes Store to an unprotected format (using iTunes default encoder) and keep all the original metadata, lyrics and artwork. FairGame doesn’t do lossless DRM stripping. It re-encodes protected AAC files purchased in iTMS into unprotected AAC file using Apple’s iMovie software.
What you MUST DO (only once) to get FairGame to work:
enable “Access for assistive devices” in the “Universal Access” system preference
select “Place clip in Movie Timeline” in the “Import” preference of iMovie HD
Then you can simply:
select some songs in iTunes
click on the “Process songs” button
Don’t touch anything and wait until it’s done…(FairGame is scripting iMovie’s interface to process the songs, don’t interfere)
Written by terry007 on November 10th, 2009 with no comments.
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High-definition video or HD video refers to any video system of higher resolution than standard-definition (SD) video, and most commonly involves display resolutions of 1280×720 pixels (720p) or 1920×1080 pixels (1080i/1080p).
We come across more and more HD videos in our daily life. HD videos bring us high quality of the image. But there appears a problem. HD videos can’t be accepted by some portable players. How can we solve this problem? In fact, it is easy when we own a practical tool. It can help us to convert HD videos to suitable format which is acceptable by most of our players.
This detailed tutorial is designed to help you get started using 4Videosoft HD Converter Box and 4Videosoft Mac HD Converter to accomplish conversion between almost all popular high definition video for playback on your portable multimedia players such as iPod touch/video/nano/classic, Zune, iPhone, Apple TV, PSP, Xbox 360, PS3, Archos, iRiver PMP Player, Creative Zen, Pocket PC, and Mobile Phone etc.
Part 1: How to use 4Videosoft HD Converter to convert among HD videos.
With only 4 steps, you can convert and transfer your videos to your portable media players with high quality and fast speed.
Step 0: Download and install 4Videosoft
HD Converter box When you finished the download process, run the .exe file to install it.
Step 1: Click “Add files” button to import videos.
Step 2: Extend the “Profile” category to select an output format.
Step 3: Click “Open Folder” button to open your output destination file.
Step 4: Click the “START” to convert.
For you to better enjoy your video, 4Videosoft HD Converter provides you more valuable editing functions of “Trim, Effect, Crop, Snapshot and Merge into one file”. Then you can adjust output video effect, capture any video clips and customize the output play region. For you to get the exact file, more specific parameters are available for you to set.
Part 2: How to convert HD video files using 4Videosoft HD Converter for Mac? The following step-by-step guide will show you how to complete the conversion task. First, download 4Videosoft Mac HD Converter
Step 1: Install and run the software
After installing and running the software, you will see the main interface as below.
Step 2: Add File
Click “Add File” button on the toolbar or “File > Add File” to load files.
Step 3: Choose output format
Choose the file, click “Profile” drop-down button to choose the format you need, then click “Browse” button to choose destination folder for saving output files.
Step 4: Getting started convertion
After choosing the format, you just need to click “START” button to start the task.
Additionally, the software provides you with more features to perfect your video. The powerful functions are as follows”
Tip: — Video editor
You can do some editing to your video by clicking img(edit)on the top of the main interface.
1.Video effect adjusting:
If you want to make some special effect to the video, you can realize it by setting brightness, contrast and saturation etc. You will get an intuitive preview of the video effect before and after adjusting with two real-time previewing panes.
2. Video Triming:
The “Trim” function also servers as a video splitter for you to get any time-length video episode. You can set the “Start Time” and “End Time” to set the exact time-length of the clip or you can directly drag the slide bar to the position you want.
3. Video Cropping:
Click “Crop” and you can resize the video. You can get the desired size of video for your player by selecting aspect ratio, dragging cropping frame or setting the related parameters.
4: How to join the videos
If you would like to put several files into one output file, please tick the check box of the “Merge into one file”.
5: How to save your favorite picture
If you like the current image when preview video, you can use the “Snapshot” option. Just click the “Snapshot” button, the image will be saved and you can click the “Open” button next to “Snapshot” button to open your picture.
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Some people don’t know how to add their own home Video to their own blogs and share them with friends. Many of the home videos are in AVI format. To add your AVI video to blog or website, you have to convert AVI to SWF format. So here I will show you some useful AVI to SWF converter and also how to convert AVI files to SWF .
There are many outstanding AVI to SWF Converter tools in the market. Such as wondershare video to flash encoder, one of the fastest AVI to SWF Converter. It is an excellent video to flash converter to convert video to flash FLV&SWF which are in small size and high quality. This video to flash solution can convert MPEG, AVI, MOV, WMV, MP4 and even HD video as M2TS, TP, TRP, TS to flash with many attached functions.
What you need:
AVI videos you want to convert to SWF;
Computer;
Wondershare Video to Flash Converter;
It is recommended not to do other operation while converting AVI to SWF file, as it will affect the output quality of the converted video.
Here is the detailed process of converting AVI to SWF with Wondershare video to flash encoder:
Download the wondershare Flash to Video Encoder now,stall and run it.
Step 1: Click”load files”to add your avi files.
Step 2: Edit avi video
1.Trim video: Select the avi video you like through setting “Start time” and “End time”Or setting selected length.
2.Setting Effects: You can set the brightness, contrast, saturation, volume of your video file by drag the corresponding adjustment sliders on the bars.
3.Crop video:Some video files have black edges around its video. Now you can cut off the black edges at will.
Step 3:Set the output options and start convert.
The wondershare video to flash encoder provides four output formats: *.swf, *.flv, *. HTML. In “Setting”, you can set Resolution, Frame rate, Video Encoder, etc. for your output flash videos.This wonderful Video to Flash Converter also helps you directly open your ideal webpage after conversion by choose “Option -> Upload”.
Tips: How to convert DVD to SWF with Wondershare Video to Flash Pro?
If you want to convert DVD to SWF video besides converting AVI to SWF files, you can use Wondershare Video to Flash Converter Pro. With this Flash Video Converter, you can convert DVD to Flash, and almost all kinds of video format, even convert HD video to flash FLV/SWF with many attached functions.
And now, after convert AVI to SWF video, we can share them onto our blog and some other sharing website freely.Now you can make your own home Video Flash, preserve and share every precious moment in your life.
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One of the major categories of laptop computers is Gaming Laptop. Usually, these are the laptops that offer high processing performance, superior graphics, brilliant displays and possesses a large hard drive for plenty of storage.
Gaming PC
In other words, you want a laptop that has a high-end GPU, fast processor, tons of RAM, large 17inch or bigger display, large hard drive and many throw in a Blu-ray optical drive to make sure you’re getting the best viewing enjoyment possible.
You should also know, in the quest to produce the most powerful gaming notebook computer, the ideal machine will now sport multiple graphics cards, dual or even quad processors, multiple hard drives… and as gaming technology has progressed, these fully loaded laptop rigs are just about on par with what you would find on a gaming desktop PC.GBA
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Gaming laptops have also been a popular Christmas gift in years past and this year will probably prove no different. These dream machines are on everyone’s list for a number of reasons so here’s why you should consider getting or giving one this year…
Handheld Game As competition in this market heats up, prices have been steadily falling. Once this category was dominated by gaming specialists such as Alienware and Rock, but not anymore, as many of the major computer makers such as Dell, HP, Sony, Toshiba… are all entering this niche market.
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Has your dog been trained in Bite Inhibition?
If not, it is time that you set about training it on how to hold back on its instinct to bite when it is dealing with humans and their property.
Mouthing is a natural instinct with dogs, whereby they use their mouths to communicate, to touch things, to hold on to things. Since it involves their jaws and their teeth, it becomes important that this mouthing is curbed or curtailed when they are dealing with humans.
Dog training biting is a part of all dog training manuals and guides which tells how to teach a dog to inhibit its instinct to bite when it is dealing with humans
Written by noelben on November 10th, 2009 with no comments.
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