07 Mar 10 Convert DVD to good quality MPG or VOB
I have been looking for a program to help me convert some of my DVD movies to MPG or VOB formats with good output quality, so that I can make use of them to do other use. After spending an entire weekend Google-ing the Web and trying different packages I decided to purchase Pavtube Blu-Ray Video Converter Ultimate, since it works with not only DVDs, but also Blu-ray discs and almost all video files, which provides one-stop service and versatile functionalities. The most important thing is that it works well, without audio and video out of sync issues and guarantees an excellent output quality to meet my needs. Suppose you are having the same requirements like me, please find the step-by-step instruction I shared as below:
BTW, you can free download Pavtube Blu-Ray Video Converter Ultimate here.
Step 1: Launch this program, and click “Load DVD” to add DVD files.
This program will tick all the imported files by default, but generally, the one with the longest duration time would be the main movie, so you can right click on the file to uncheck all, and then tick off this one.
Step 2: Select your needed subtitle and audio track
This program is capable of recognizing all the subtitle and audio track information, which enables you to select your desired languages to convert.
Step 3: Select MPG or VOB as output format
Click on the drop-down menu of “Format”, and then the output formats profile will pop up. To output MPG format, there are “Common Video” and “HD Video” to choose from. I’d like to output good quality files, so I select “HD Video”-”MPEG-S HD Video (*.mpg)” as an example.
There are also vob formats customized for different regions. Notice that NTSC is a video format used in North America, Central America, Japan, and parts of South America; PAL is the video format used in Europe, Africa, the Middle East, most of Asia, and parts of South America; SECAM is used in Africa, Asia, Pacific Islands, Former USSR, and Americas. You should select one according to your geographical regions.
Step 4: Click “Settings” button to adjust audio and video parameters
You are allowed to adjust codec name, aspect ratio, bit rate, frame rate, sample rate, and audio channels to customize the file quality and file size.
Step 5: Click “Convert” button to start ripping DVD to MPG or VOB
Once finished, you can get the output files via clicking on “Open” button with ease.
Additional tips:
How to adjust Brightness, Contrast, and do Deinterlacing
One more reason I prefer to this DVD to MPG or VOB converter is that I also love the way to make the video quality brighter or darker and adjust the contrast and do deinterlacing. Go to “Edit” icon, and then the following editor window will show off. Hit on “Effect” button firstly, and then drag the slider bars under “Brightness”, “Contrast”, and “Saturation” to do adjustment. Meanwhile, you can click on the pull down menu of “Effect” to add special effects to your videos, and tick off the checkbox “Deinterlaing” to remove the obvious lines that go across the image.
07 Mar 10 How to back up Blu-ray and standard DVD movies to your hard drive
Until now, all my three TV cabinets have been full filled with a large number of DVD and Blu-ray discs. I believe it is time to digitize them and back up some of them to the hard drive of my PC, and others to a large capacity external hard drive, so as to manage all the movies in a tidy and orderly way.
I just did a simple search for a blu-ray ripper and reviews on Google, and found the Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripper. Almost every guide or website review either rated Pavtube as the No.1 ripper or as being highly recommended. I also read some user reviews from different websites that convinced me to download the trial version of this application. It worked perfectly on both standard DVD and Blu-ray conversion. Best of all, I was able to open, copy, and watch every Blu-ray movie, irrespectively whether the Blu-ray was bought in Japan, Europe, or USA. Share this utility here, and hope this helps.
You can free download Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripper here.
How-To:
1. Run Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripper and click “DVD Rom”, “DVD Folder” or “IFO/ISO” to load DVD and Blu-ray movies. Generally speaking, the file with the longest duration time would be the main movie, if you just need back up the main movie, tick off this one only.
Each file will be checked by default after imported, right click on any one of the files, and then there will be a popup window to let you uncheck all, just do it, and afterwards to tick off the checkbox before the file you need converted.
2. Click on the drop-down menus after “Subtitle” and “Audio” respectively to select your required languages and sound effect.
3. Select output format and specify save path
Click on the pull down list of “Format” to select output format and click on the folder icon at the opposite side of “Output” to specify destination folder.
To backup your DVD and Blu-ray movies without any quality loss, you can choose “Copy”-”Directly Copy”, this will retain the output files in the original .vob and .m2ts format.
If you’d like to convert them to other video formats, then you can choose one according to your needs.
4. Click on “Settings” button to do advanced settings
The popup window will allow you to adjust audio and video parameters including codec, bit rate, aspect ratio, frame rate, sample rate, and audio channels, 5.1 surround sound is supported as well.
5. Click on “Convert” button to begin backing up your DVD and Blu-ray movies
Once finished, you can find out the output files via clicking on “Open” button with ease.
07 Mar 10 Have fun with Blu-ray and DVD movies on your Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10
Click on the pull down list of “Format” to select output format and click on the folder icon at the opposite side of “Output” to specify destination folder.
To backup your DVD and Blu-ray movies without any quality loss, you can choose “Copy”-”Directly Copy”, this will retain the output files in the original .vob and .m2ts format.
If you’d like to convert them to other video formats, then you can choose one according to your needs.
4. Click on “Settings” button to do advanced settings
The popup window will allow you to adjust audio and video parameters including codec, bit rate, aspect ratio, frame rate, sample rate, and audio channels, 5.1 surround sound is supported as well.
5. Click on “Convert” button to begin backing up your DVD and Blu-ray movies
Once finished, you can find out the output files via clicking on “Open” button with ease.
3.Have fun with Blu-ray and DVD movies on your Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10
XPERIA X10, the first Android device from Sony Ericsson, is delivering a consistent user experience where communication truly becomes entertainment. The UX platform builds on top of the Open OS and creates a unique Sony Ericsson user experience by combining best-in-class entertainment features with signature applications, unrivalled integration of social media services and a rich graphical user interface. And an important lightspot of XPERIA X10 is the Sony Ericsson Mediascape which is the smart way to get all the music, photo and videos you want from your favourite friends and artists. It accesses content from everywhere—your phone, YouTube, PlayNow—and presents everything for you. In addition, the SanDisk supports up to 16GB for you to store anything.
One more thing, as Blu-ray and DVD movies are more and more popular, enjoying such HD movies anywhere will be a trend in the near future. It will be a nice experience to watch Blu-ray and DVD movies on XPERIA X10, especially on its huge and high resolution and pixels touchscreen. However, XPERIA X10 will only accept MP4 and 3GP video format, how can we put the dvd files into a phone for playback. That’s what I wanna share with you. Here we go:
Required software:
Step 1: Download, install and launch Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripper
Once launched it, you can load BD files to it through three ways-”DVD Rom”, “DVD Folder” and “IFO/ISO”.
Step 2: Select subtitle and audio track
Click pull down menu of “Subtitle” and “Audio” to select your needed subtitle and audio track respectively. The drop-down list will show you all the info clearly, including language and stream ID of subtitle, language, audio codec, audio ID, and audio channel of audio. You can choose one at will, and the preview window will show you the changes in real time.
Step 3: Select output format
Click the drop-down menu of “Format” to select “Common Video”> “H.264 Video (*.mp4) as output format.
Step 4: Start Blu-ray ripping for X10
Once all settings are done, you can click “Convert” button to start Blu-ray ripping.
The output MP4 files can be found out via clicking “Open” button effortlessly, what you should do next is uploading the videos from your computer to the memory card of your X10.
07 Mar 10 Solution for editing H.264/MOV footages shot by Canon EOS 7D camera
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Before its release, lots of Canon fans have been waiting for the Canon EOS 7D camera. I have just bought one recently, but it captures videos in H.264/MOV format, which is not a workable format in my editing software Magix Edit Pro 14. So I have to find a video converter to help me out. Through taking a whole weekend to do Google searching and trying out many programs, I end up with Pavtube HD Video Converter. I am very pleased with this program as it does an excellent job of conversion, which converts my videos into any format that I could possibly need. Share its detailed steps here, and hope it will be of some help for you guys who have a Canon 7D as me.
First off, download Pavtube [url=http://www.pavtube.com/hd-video-converter/]HD Video Converter[/url], install and run it.
Step 1: Launch this program and load MOV files into it
You can click “Add” button to import .mov files, or you can directly drag and drop the files into this program.
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Step 2: Click the drop-down menu of “Format” to select output format
With multiple output formats, Pavtube HD Video Converter is able to output proper formats for numerous video editing software and portable devices like iPod, iPhone, BlackBerry, Apple TV, etc. I select “AVI HD Video (*.avi)” as output format for my Magix Edit Pro 14.
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BTW, if you wanna combine multiple mov files to be as a single file, you can tick the checkbox “Merge into one file”.
Step 3: Click “Settings” button to adjust audio and video parameters
To make good control of the output file size and quality, you can adjust all the items in the following interface, including codec, aspect ratio, bit rate, frame rate, sample rate, and audio channels. Generally speaking, the larger input values, the better output quality, but accompanying with the larger output file size; the smaller input figures, the smaller output file size, but accompanying with inferior output quality. That is to say if you want to do advanced settings, you need make a balance between the file size and the file quality.
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Step 4: Click “Convert” button to start conversion
Once begin, the following window will show you clearly about the conversion information, which will help you to manage your time and storage space in a proper way. If you do not want to wait for the whole conversion process through, you can choose “Shut down computer after conversion” to leave it alone.
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As long as the conversion is completed, you can click on “Open” button in the main interface to get the generated files.
Well, several simple steps, hope it helps.
07 Mar 10 How to convert DVD to AVI for further editing with Windows Movie Maker
DVD movie still plays essential role in our audio/video daily life in spite of prosperity of online video and handheld devices. The problem is that DVD movie is not editable and you can only watch the movie the way it is presented on the disk. This is a time of individual customization and showing your own style, why not tries to edit a movie and watch it whatever way you like. To edit the DVD movie, you need to [url=http://www.pavtube.com/dvd_ripper/]convert DVD to AVI[/url] firstly and then import the exported AVI videos to Adobe Premiere, Windows Movie Maker, and Sony Vegas etc. First let us start from what is AVI.
About AVI
AVI stands for Audio Video Interleave Which is defined by Microsoft, it can work as a container to be embedded with different codec, such as DivX, XviD, etc. The AVI video generally brings high quality, but occupies larger disk space. It is suitable for further video editing.
To edit DVD with Windows movie maker, you need a DVD Ripper to convert DVD to AVI. This popular [url=http://www.pavtube.com/dvd_ripper/]DVD Ripper[/url] offers AVI formats with various codec, which will certainly meet your needs to play, and edit video etc
1. Run Pavtube DVD Ripper
If you have not installed it yet, please download the free trial version of Pavtube DVD Ripper.
2. Add DVD video by clicking “DVD ROM “, “DVD Folder” or “IFO/ISO”.
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3. Choose the AVI format on the “Format” drop down box.
There are several profiles with AVI as output format.
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Pavtube [url=http://www.pavtube.com/dvd_ripper/]DVD Ripper[/url] offers several options for AVI with uncompressed codec and less compressed codec. The uncompressed codec is available for the profile “Losseless raw video”. The profile is set with recommended settings, and you can also change the output settings by clicking the “Settings” button. There are four video codecs for uncompressed AVI: BGR24, RGB555, YUY2, and RGBA32.
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There are 5 profiles for AVI with less compressed codec, in “Common Video” profile, there are AVI MSMPEG4-V3, Xvid AVI, and Divx AVI, in “HD Video” profile, there are AVI HD Video and Divx HD AVI.
4. Check the “Convert” button to start converting
After conversion, just click the “Open” button, and you will find the output AVI files.
Now you have got the output AVI videos, and the rest of the work goes to video editing software. Let’s take Windows movie maker for example.
[b]Step1[/b]: Import your video. Get your video onto your computer any way you need too. Open Windows Movie Maker.
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[b]Step2[/b]: Edit your AVI video. Open your storyboard by clicking “View storyboard”. Your storyboard will be your timeline and where you will do most of your editing. For you movie folks we can call it your “cutting room floor”. To put your video in the storyboard, drag it from your library to the storyboard. Click the plus sign on your timeline so you can see video and audio lines. If you want to add extra audio to your piece, import it the same way you did your video.
[b]Step3[/b]: Play your AVI video and watch for where you want to cut and delete the extraneous video. Place your timeline cursor (the blue line that crosses perpendicular to the timeline) where you want to cut your video and split it by choosing “Edit split”. Split your original video as many times as you want. Once you split the video you see the rest of the original video in your library. Delete the video you don’t want by pressing “Delete” on your keyboard.
[b]Step4[/b]: Add video by dragging it to the storyboard. Make sure your cursor is where you want it on the timeline because the program will automatically place your audio track where your cursor is. You will notice your audio track goes into the audio space on your timeline. To edit audio follow the same steps as the video.
