December 11th, 2009
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Do you want to freely enjoy your iPod?
Here is one tool that can help you enjoy your iPod fully. No matter you want to put DVD movies, videos in any formats on your iPod, backup your iPod files, transfer files on PC to your iPod or between two iPod devices, even make your own iPhone Ringtone, 4Easysoft iPod Mate which combined DVD to iPod Converter, iPod Video Converter, iPod Manager, and iPhone Ringtone Converter together can help us easily solve these problems.
Preparation : Download and install 4Easysoft iPod Mate
The following are the detailed guide:
Part 1: How to convert DVD to iPod
Step 1: Run 4Easysoft iPod Mate, choose “DVD to iPod Converter”.
After click “DVD to iPod Converter”, a new dialogue pops up.
Step 2: Follow the instructions on it to load DVD and set the out put settings.
This converter can support all commercial DVDs, including DVD with the restriction of CSS, Region, RCE, Sony ARccOS. And just click“Load DVD” button, you can load your DVD from DVD drive, DVD folder in your PC or IFO file.
You can also choose the audio track and subtitle you need.
From the profile drop-down list, you can choose the output video format you need.
And you can click “Settings” button to set the Video Encoder, Resolution, Frame Rate, Video Bitrate, etc
Click “Browse” button, you can select the output path or you can choose the default path of the program.
Step 3: Start the conversion.
Click “Start” button to begin the conversion. It will be finished with high output quality and converting speed.
Before your start the conversion your can edit your videos by using the function of effect, trim, crop, snapshot, merge to help you make more enjoyable videos.
Part 2: How to convert video to iPod
Step 1: Run 4Easysoft iPod Mate, choose “iPod Video Converter”.
After click “iPod Video Converter”, a new dialogue pops up.
Step 2: Follow the instructions on it to add video files and set the out put settings.
It can convert almost all the video/audio formats such as MPEG, VOB, MP4, M4V, QuickTime, HD MTS, HD M2TS, HD MPG for iPod.
From the profile drop-down list, you can choose the output video format you need.
And you can click “Settings” button to set the Video Encoder, Resolution, Frame Rate, Video Bitrate, etc
Click “Browse” button, you can select the output path or you can choose the default path of the program.
You can also edit your videos by using the function of effect, trim, crop, snapshot, merge.
Step 3: Start the conversion.
Click “Start” button to begin the conversion. It will be finished with high output quality and converting speed.
Part 3: How to transfer video to ipod/ipod to PC/iPod to iPod
Step 1: Run 4Easysoft iPod Mate, choose “iPod Manager”.
After click “iPod Manager”, a new dialogue pops up.
Step 2: Connect your iPod to your computer via USB cable
Step 3: According your needs to select the the functions
a. If you want to import video/audio files to your iPod, click “PC to iPod” button, and then follow the instruction on it.
b. If you want to transfer iPod files to PC, click “iPod to PC” button, and then follow the instruction on it.
Tip: Click “Search” button to use “Track Filter” function to help you quickly browse your library by genre, artist and album.
c. If you want to transfer iPod to iPod, click “iPod to iPod” button, and then follow the instruction on it.
Step 3: After you have finished the above two steps,just follow the instructions on it to complete your demands.
Part 4: How to make iPhone Ringtone
Step 1: Run 4Easysoft iPod Mate, choose “iPhone Ringtone Converter”.
After click “iPhone Ringtone Converter”, a new dialogue pops up.
Step 2: Input source files, pre-listen music and choose the clip
The source files can be any video and audio files, such as MP4, H.264/AVC, AVI, MPEG, WMV, MP3, WMA, WAV, etc.
You can drag the slide bar to get music clip to convert, or type the start & end time in the corresponding text box directly.
Step 3: Set output destination
You can choose the output folder by clicking “Browse” button on the right side of the “Local Output File” label.
Step 4: Start the conversion
After all the settings are finished, click “Generate” button to start creating your own iPhone ringtone. During the creation, you can check the process by the progress bar at the bottom..
Just try and explore this amazing tool!
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We all misplace things once in a while, some more important than others, and we react accordingly. You might barely bat an eye when you lose the bottle cap of that Gatorade you’re going to finish anyway, or you might cringe when 5 bucks mysteriously vanish from your wallet. Unfortunately, every so often the misplaced object turns out to be a biggie—your Social Security card is one of those big things. Why should you know how to get a new Social Security card? Getting a new Social Security card is a good idea because a Social Security card is required for getting a job and retiring from it. Social Security cards keep track of your tax payments so that you can receive your Social Security benefits (assuming the Baby Boomers are able to leave us a little something behind!).
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The following step by step tutorial will share with you how to rip/copy DVD to popular video formats and extract audio from DVD with high output video/audio quality on Mac OS X (Tiger, Leopard or Snow Leopard) using Aiseesoft DVD Ripper for Mac.
Note: The following guide only focuses on how to use this DVD Ripper for Mac to rip DVD to iPod on Mac OS X. If you want to rip DVD to video/audio format for another specific mobile player, just start over and choose another profile from the “Profile” drop-down list in Step 3.
Step 1. Download and install Aiseesoft DVD Ripper for Mac. ( Free Download )
Step 2. Import DVD Movies
Run Aiseesoft DVD Ripper for Mac. Click the “Load DVD” button to import the DVD movie you want to watch on your iPod.
After you add the DVD, you can choose any titles or chapters you want to convert by ticking the check boxes before them. You can choose to convert DVD with the entire movie or just one or several chapters at will; or you can choose to convert a segment of the DVD movie.
Step 3. Output Settings
Regular DVD movies usually have several subtitles such as English, French, German, etc. You can select the one you prefer. You can also delete the subtitle by selecting “No Subtitle”. It is the same to select “Audio”.
Extend the “Profile” drop-down menu and choose the format that best fits your iPod. Note: This DVD Ripper for Mac can also rip DVD to MP4, AVI, M4V, 3GP, MPG, MPEG, FLV, etc on Mac OS X.
If you want to customize the quality of the output video, you can click the “Settings” button to open the “Settings” window and set video resolution, frame rate, bit rate, encoder, etc. Aiseesoft DVD Ripper for mac lets you extract audio from DVD movie as well. You can set audio resolution, frame rate, bit rate and encoder on the ‘Settings’ panel.
Step 4. Start Conversion
After making the output settings, just click the “Start” button to start converting DVD for your iPod.
After you get the output video files, launch iTunes and start syncing them to your iPod.
There are several Tips and Tricks you can’t miss while using this DVD Ripper for Mac to rip DVD to iPod on Mac OS X:
1. Trim DVD Title or Chapter
If you want to capture a clip from the current title/chapter, you can click the Trim button to open the Trim window and trim the current title or chapter by dragging the Start Time slider to set the start time, and dragging the End Time slider to set the finish time. Then you can only rip segments from dvd on mac.
2. Crop DVD Video
If you want to remove the black edges or just convert an area from your movie video, you can click the Crop button to crop the video of the current title or chapter. You can specify an area either by dragging the frame around the video or setting the crop values: Top, Button, Left and Right. Above the crop pane, you can select an output aspect ratio and the available options are: Keep Original, full screen, 16:9 and 4:3. You can preview the video in the select aspect ratio on the main interface and during the conversion process.
3. Video Effect
If you want to adjust the video effect of your movie, you can click the Effect button and drag each effect adjustment slider to set the video brightness, contrast, saturation and video volume. You can also choose a special effect from the Effect drop-down list to apply to your movie.
It is recommended that you choose iMedia Converter for Mac if you want to both rip DVD and convert video to iPod on your Mac machine.
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More and More video formats are coming out with different video encoders and it makes our spare time more and more colorful. However, it is not to say that there is no problems. Actually, different video formats make it difficult to share video with others, even your own camcorder and iPod. Is there an easy way to convert videos effectively. Yes, there is.
In this article, I will show you guys how to convert videos on windows and mac.
Part 1. How to Convert and Edit Videos on Windows
For Windows users, you need a Video Converter to do that for you.
Here I use Aiseesoft Total Video Converter
Step 1: Download and install Aiseesoft Total Video Converter
After you download it to your computer, double click it and it is really easy to install.
You just need to click “next” and it will complete it in seconds. It will automatically run after installation.
Step 2: Load Video
Click “Add File” to find the video that you want to convert and click “open”. It will be loaded automatically.
Step 3: Select the target to decode
In the “Profile” drop download list you can find your target according the usage of your output video, such as if you want to put the video on your iPod touch, you can select the “iPod” in the first list and “iPod touch 2 MPEG-4 640*480(*.mp4)” in the second list.
Step 4: Set Advanced Parameters
After you select the right output profile, you can click “setting” button to set your advanced parameters. You can adjust video and audio settings separately. In video section, you can change “video encoder”, “resolution”, “frame rate”, “video bitrate”In audio section, you can change “audio encoder”, “sample rate”, “channel”, “audio bitrate”If you want to save this profile and settings and use it next time you can click “save as” button to give a name to it. And the next time you want to use it you can find it in the profile list named “user defined”.
Step 5: Choose a Destination
To browse and find a output folder for your output files or just the default one.
Finally, Click “Convert” button to begin your conversion, here in the converting
interface you can choose “shut down the computer when conversion complete” or “open output folder when conversion complete” or you just do not choose neither one.
Tips: How to Edit the Output Video
This video converter is also a video editor, you can use it to edit your output video as follows:
1. Effect:
You are allowed to adjust the “Brightness”, “Contrast”, “Saturation” and you can choose the “deinterlacing” to make the video more enjoyable.
2. Trim:
In “Trim” section you can pick up any part of the video to convert.
There are two ways to select the part of the video you want. One is set the start and end time in the box. The other one is to drag the start and end button in the processing bar.
3. Crop:
This function allows you to choose a certain play area to convert. That means you can choose a part of the screen you like to convert. For example, you just like the tv in the middle of the screen, then you can drag the frame around the preview window to select the tv and the output preview will show you the output video.In this section you can also choose the “zoom mode”, such as “keep original”, “full screen”, “16:9”, “4:3”.
4. Watermark
In the section, you can add a watermark on the output video to show people something, such as your name, website, studio name or other things. The watermark could be words and picture. You can adjust the transparent of the watermark easily to make it more beautiful.
Part 2. How to Convert Video on Mac
This time you need a Video Converter for Mac
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
Written by panybieat on December 11th, 2009 with 2 comments.
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Nowadays we have various videos and DVDs to enjoy, but with so many analogue to digital converters available, it is always difficult to know which is right for a given application. Because the Data sheets often confuse the issue and many specifications impact performance in unanticipated ways, and when selecting converters, engineers may simply look at resolution, signal to noise ratio (SNR) or harmonics.
Now I’d like to share important tips for you to choose the right converter. It includes two parts:
Part 1: Tips for choosing the right video converter:
Tip 1: The format that the converter supports.
The most powerful video converter software must support as many video file formats as possible such as the common formats (avi, mpeg, wmv, mov, divx mp4,etc), and also the HD videos(HD TS, HD MTS, HD M2TS, , HD MP4, HD WMV,etc) as its input and output video formats. The audio files (AAC, AC3, AIFF, AMR, AU, FLAC, MP3, M4V, MP2, OGG, WAV, WMA. etc) also must be included as its input and output formats. Check out if all the necessary encoders and decoders are included in the software.
Tip 2: The video conversion speed.
A lot of converters support all the possible video formats, but they are really slow and sometimes they freeze causing a lot of frustration. Many video converters do not support multithreading and batch conversion making the process of video conversion a pain. Batch conversion will allow you to convert more than one video files at the same time.
Tip 3: The quality of the converted media file.
Many iPod video converters are really fast but the output is disappointing. Video freezes, audio stops playing, screen turns red or green, short audio or video breaks during playback. This is common for some video converter, especially when you don’t know how to use the conversion process properly. Be careful when adjusting video size, bit rate etc.
Tip 4: The friendly user interface
The user interface must be friendly and designed in a way that will allow even a total newbie to access all the controls and functions of the video converter software. If a software company creates a user friendly video converter, chances are that the video converter will work properly apart from being user friendly.
Tip 5: The advanced video editing functions.
Most of the time we just not only want to convert the video into another format, but we also want to edit it while converting. Split segments randomly or exactly, set video effect and deinterlacing, merge files into one, crop video play region to retain what you want, capture highlights, customize output settings are all the basic editing functions. Check out if the converter has these functions when choosing a video converter. Be sure to use the preview feature if any, to see the output result before converting.
Ok, if considering about these, I think any of you can choose the right Video Converter. And for the Mac users, you can also choose the right Mac Video Converter.
Part 2: Tips for choosing the right DVD converter:
Tip 1: Information about converting a DVD
Converting a DVD refers to converting the audio or video data from a DVD format to a digital copy on your hard disk.
Tip 2: The right type of the DVD converter
If you use a DVD converter, it will compress the video into mpeg-4, avi, DivX, or Ogg Theora. If you use a DVD audio converter, it will compress the audio from the dvd into a format such as mp3, wav, or ogg. To completely convert a DVD you will either need both a DVD audio ripper and a video ripper, or you will need a DVD ripper that does both audio and video ripping.
Tip 3: The portable devices that the output file support
Not only are there DVD converters to convert a DVD to a format your PC can deal with, but there is now even a DVD converter that allows you to put a DVD onto a video iPod, iPhone, iPhone OS 3.0, PSP, Zune, Creative Zen, Wii, etc.
Tip 4: The converting speed
The speed which your dvd ripper can work depends on several factors. One of the big factors is the drive speed. For instance an 8x drive will have the capability of converting the DVD 8 times faster than the DVD will play. Another factor that will effect how fast your DVD converter goes is cpu speed. If you have a slow cpu that will make it so the DVD converter cannot keep up with the drive and will cause a slowdown.
Tip 5: The cleanness of the converter
Nobody likes to have something useless or harmful when downloading the software. So be sure there are no adware, spyware, virus when downloading a software.
Well, take these into consideration, this DVD to Video Converter deserves our try. And for the Mac users, Mac DVD Ripper can be regarded as the best one on Mac.
Hope these tips can be helpful.
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