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How to convert MVI to AVI file for edit in Pinnacle Studio?

Mon, 29 Mar 2010 01:25:28 -0400

Some Canon digital still cameras (Powershot A75, A63, S410 etc), are capable of shooting a limited amount of video, since there is no tape, it is saved as an MVI file format. However, the MVI file format is not compatible with other programs. Even windows media player refuse to play MVI file. Besides, editing software like Pinnacle Studio and Windows movie maker do not work with the format. Because of this, the files need to be converted to a format that is more widely used, such as AVI so that these videos shot with still camera can be played and edited as easily as other common videos. This guide is to tell how to do that.
Software you'll Need: Pavtube Video Converter

Step 1. Download Pavtube Video Converter, and follow the prompts to install the program. Click "Finish" when the installation is complete, and Pavtube Video Converter will launch automatically.

Step 2. Click “Add” to load MVI files or directly drag the files into file list. By default, the files are selected. If you would like to join all the selected files together, check the box of Merge into one. You could view the files in preview window, simply highlight the file and click play button.

or http://en.wikipedia.org/ can help you !

Step 3. Click “Format” bar to determine output format. Follow Common Video-> AVI Video (*.avi)/ DivX AVI(*.avi). Click “Settings” if you’d like to customize advanced audio and video parameters like Video Codec, aspect ratio, bit rate, frame rate, Audio codec, sampling rate, bit rate, channels. Do not forget to click “OK” to confirm your settings. Then type in a desired output location in the "Output" box.

Step 4. Click "Convert” to start converting MVI files to AVI. You could set auto shutdown in progress window or leave it there and come back later. After conversion you could edit the converted video in Pinnacle Studio, and make a film out of it or burn it onto DVD.

Learn more: http://www.pavtube.com/guide/convert-mvi-to-avi-for-edit-in-pinnacle-studio.html

How to convert Blu-ray, standard DVD and various videos to a compatible format with iPad

Thu, 25 Mar 2010 01:27:24 -0400

Apple's iPad features a 9.7-inch high-resolution 1024×768 multi-touch display, which not only makes it convenient and comfortable for users to read newspapers, magazines, and books, view photos, experience the web, see and touch emails, but also makes it perfect for watching any kind of video, from HD movies and TV shows to podcasts, music videos and more. Since iPad is without distracting keypad or buttons, you will totally concentrate on this big screen, and feel completely immersed in whatever you're watching.

As of March 12, 2010, Apple fans in the U.S. are able to pre-order the iPad. The iPad is scheduled to go on sale in the U.S. on April 3. Are you ready for watching video and Blu-ray or DVD movie collections on your iPad? If not, this tutorial will give you a solution to the problem of how to play iPad incompatible video files in a detailed way with Pavtube Blu-ray Video Converter Ultimate.

Before that, go to see the iPad supported video formats as below:

TV and video playback:

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

Well, if your movies are out of the above categories, then please follow the following guide to do format conversion before your playback.

Step 1: Add videos, Blu-ray or DVD movies into this program

Click "Add Video" to import video files, and click "Load DVD" to import Blu-ray or standard DVDs.

or http://en.wikipedia.org/ can help you !

Step 2: Select "iPad" as output format

Click the pull down menu at the end of "Format" to select an output format for iPad. Here I choose "iPad Video MPEG-4 (*.mp4)" as an example.

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. Do remember following Apple's recommended settings I've mentioned in the above contents:

Video:

MPEG-4 video, up to 2.5 Mbps, 640 by 480 pixels, 30 frames per second

Audio:

Simple Profile with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48kHz, stereo

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.

How to rip DVD to AVI on Mac

Mon, 22 Mar 2010 08:58:41 -0400

Pavtube DVD Ripper for Mac is specially developed for Mac users to remove DVD copy protections, as well as rip DVDs to almost all other popular video and audio formats including AVI, MP4, 3GP, AVI, MPG, MPEG-4, FLV, MOV, 3G2, VOB, MP3, FLAC, MKA, OGG, WAV, AC3, M4A, etc., so that the generated files can be played on various media players or mobile devices, or imported to some video editors to make your own movie works.

Here is a step-by-step guide to rip DVD to AVI on Mac OS X.

Step 1: Load DVD files

You can click "DVD folder" or "IFO file" to load DVD files directly from the DVD-Rom or from an IFO image file.

or http://en.wikipedia.org/ can help you !

Step 2: Select AVI as output format

Click on the pull down menu of "Format" to choose AVI as output format

Step 3: Set advanced settings

Click on "Settings" button, and you are allowed to adjust audio and video parameters on the popup window including codec, bit rate, frame rate, sample rate, aspect ratio, and audio channels. Do remember clicking "OK" button to save your settings.

Step 4: Set destination folder

Click "Browse" button to specify where to export the output files to.

Step 5: Click "Convert" button to start ripping DVD to AVI

The following window will show you clearly about the ripping info, such as time elapse, estimated left time, generated file size, and estimated file size. In that way, you are able to manage your time and storage space in a proper way.

Once ripping work is done, you can click "Open" button to get the output AVI files effortlessly.

Additional tips:

1. The ripping speed of this software is 1-2 times faster than the similar programs. Merge multiple files into one file is available.

2. Enable users to select specific subtitle and audio track to convert.

3. Guarantee audio-video in sync.

4. With exception of adding text as watermark, images, GIF animations, and videos can also be added as watermarks to realize the picture-in-picture effect.

5. You can use the "Trim" function to select certain DVD clips to convert. And you can also take advantage of the "Crop" function to remove black edges or change the screen size.

How to rip DVD to AVI on Mac

Mon, 22 Mar 2010 08:58:38 -0400

Here is a step-by-step guide to rip DVD to AVI on Mac OS X.

Step 1: Load DVD files

You can click "DVD folder" or "IFO file" to load DVD files directly from the DVD-Rom or from an IFO image file.

or http://en.wikipedia.org/ can help you !

Step 2: Select AVI as output format

Click on the pull down menu of "Format" to choose AVI as output format

Step 3: Set advanced settings

Step 4: Set destination folder

Click "Browse" button to specify where to export the output files to.

Step 5: Click "Convert" button to start ripping DVD to AVI

Once ripping work is done, you can click "Open" button to get the output AVI files effortlessly.

Additional tips:

1. The ripping speed of this software is 1-2 times faster than the similar programs. Merge multiple files into one file is available.

2. Enable users to select specific subtitle and audio track to convert.

3. Guarantee audio-video in sync.

4. With exception of adding text as watermark, images, GIF animations, and videos can also be added as watermarks to realize the picture-in-picture effect.

5. You can use the "Trim" function to select certain DVD clips to convert. And you can also take advantage of the "Crop" function to remove black edges or change the screen size.

How to convert DVD to AVI, MPEG, WMV, MOV, MP4, MP3 on Mac and enjoy them on iPod, iPhone, Zune, PSP, etc

Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:56:10 -0400

Has your heart ever been touched by the good and evil of the humanity expressed in "Avatar"? Have you ever wept for the extremely romantic but tragic love in "Romeo and Juliet"? Have you ever been moved by the unremitting efforts made by Will Smith in "The Pursuit of Happyness"?

Uncountable classic movies have given us different kinds of feelings, wanna collect as many as them to be as your own collections on your home server, on your HD of PC, or enjoy them on your portable devices no matter wherever you go? If so, Pavtube DVD Ripper for Mac would be your suitable choice. It's used to convert DVD movies to various video and audio formats such as AVI, WMV, MP4 (MPEG-4, H.264), MOV, MP3, etc., which are compatible with handheld devices like Motorola Droid, iPod, iPhone, Zune, Archos, PSP, Creative Zen, etc. Following is the user guide in detail.

Step 1: Download, install and run Pavtube DVD Ripper for Mac

Step 2: Import DVD files, set output format and destination folder.

You can add DVD files to it through "DVD Folder" or "IFO File". After that, you can click the drop-down list of "Format" to select the output format according to your mobile devices accepted format. At the same time, you can hit "Browse" button to specify where to locate the output files. Moreover, if you want to join multiple titles or chapters into a single file, you can tick "Merge into one file" to realize this goal.

Step 3: Set advanced settings

Clicking on "Settings" button, experienced users can set video Codec Name, Bit Rate, Video Size, and Frame Rate to optimize the quality of the video, as well as setting audio Codec Name, Bit Rate, Sample Rate, and Channels to make the quality of audio better.

Step 4: Convert

After all the settings are done, you can click "Convert" button to start DVD ripping. Once begin, the following interface will show you clearly about the ripping info, including ripping progress, time elapse, time left, generated file size, estimated file size, etc.

Additional Tips:

1. Pavtube DVD Ripper for Mac supports importing unprotected DVDs and protected DVDs.

2. The conversion speed of this software is 1.5-2 times faster than the similar DVD rippers.

3. Ripping by chapters is supported.

4. There are no audio and video out of sync issues.

5. With exception of adding text as watermark, images, GIF animations, and videos can also be added as watermarks to realize the picture-in-picture effect.

6. You can use the "Trim" function to select certain DVD clips to convert. And you can also take advantage of the "Crop" function to remove black edges or change the screen size.

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

Keep HD quality of TiVo files while doing format conversion

Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:50:21 -0400

Keep high definition quality of TiVo files – This article tells you how to keep HD quality of tivo files (TV shows, Netflix movies or whatever) recorded by your TiVo HD DVR, TiVo HD XL DVR while doing format conversion for your other devices. To retain HD quality of your tivo files, please follow the steps below:

Guide: How to keep HD quality of TiVo files while doing format conversion

1. Transfer TiVo movies to your personal computer

To achieve this goal, you should make use of TiVo Desktop software, you can download it here: TiVo Desktop software. Open TiVo Desktop, click "Pick Recordings to Transfer" to transfer TV shows to your PC. The TiVo Desktop will prompt when the transfer is finished.

2. Convert TiVo files to HD video via Pavtube Video Converter

Step 1: Click "Add" button to import TiVo files to this program

Step 2: Select HD video as output format and specify destination folder

Click the pull down menu of "Format" to select "HD Video" firstly, and then choose a format according to your end use of the output files. There are more than 10 selections in "HD Video" profile, including HD MP4, HD MOV, HD MKV, HD AVI, HD TS, HD MPG, etc., and which one to select is totally depending on you.

At the same time, you can click the folder icon at the end of "Output" to specify where to store the output files, if not, this program will export generated files to the save path set by default automatically, and wherever your destination folder is, you are able to find out the output files via clicking on "Open" button with ease.

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

On the popup window, you are allowed to reset all the options on it, such as codec name, aspect ratio, bit rate, frame rate, sample rate, and audio channels, so as to make good control of the output file quality.

Step 4: Click "Convert" button to start conversion

Additional tips:

1. This TiVo converter enables you to combine multiple TiVo files into one file, so that there are no intervals while playback. Just tick "Merge into one file", and this goal will be achieved.

2. Fast conversion speed and perfect audio and video in sync technology.

3. Support VFW codec encoding and 5.1 channel audio output.

4. This program can be used as a simple video editor. The trim function allows you to get a specific length of video accurately since its inner seek function can capture any key frame of video, while with crop, you can cut off the black edges and unwanted video area easily. Its watermark function allows you to add different sorts of watermarks, including text, image (including GIF), and video watermark, so as to realize picture-in-picture effect in your TiVo files.

How to convert MTS and M2TS AVCHD files to the format of AVI on Mac?

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 08:33:18 -0400

Often heard Mac users grumbling about the troubles they’ve met while searching for a MTS and M2TS converter. That not means they are unable to find such a converter, but means they can not find a satisfactory one to work well for them. Because almost all the MTS converters they’ve tried always bring problems one or another, like complex user interface, terrible conversion speed, audio and video out of sync issues, etc. But I’d like to say it’s time to throw all the troubles away from now on, since recently I’ve found a nice MTS/M2TS Converter for Mac via Google with luck, which has totally won my appreciation for its beautiful performance. Because of this, I’ve specially written this post to share it to you people, as well as express my gratitude to it. In my thread, I will only take how to convert MTS and M2TS files to AVI for instance to show its easy-to-use operation procedures. If you have this need, strongly recommend you trying about it.

Well, you can download it here:

Pavtube MTS/M2TS Converter for Mac

Step 1: Click “Add” button to load MTS and M2TS files generated by AVCHD camcorder.

Step 2: Click the drop-down list of “Format” to select AVI as output format.

Step 3: Click “Browse” button to specify a destination folder.

Step 4: Click “Settings” button to adjust audio and video parameters.

Parameters like codec name, bit rate, aspect ratio, frame rate, etc. in the following interface are all changeable.

Step 5: Click “Convert” button to start conversion

After finished, you can find out the output AVI files via clicking on “Open” button.

See, finished, isn’t it simple enough? Personally, I usually tick the checkbox “Merge into one file” to combine all the MTS and M2TS files I loaded to be as a single file. About its editing functions, I have not tried, but for its well performance in conversion, I’m sure they will performance beautifully in the same way.

Remove BD+ protections from Blu-ray movies on Mac

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:36:37 -0500

BD+ is a technology used to prevent unauthorized copies of Blu-ray discs and the playback of Blu-ray media using unauthorized devices, which is more powerful than the former AACS protections. This article

aims to provide a solution for removing BD+ protections from your Blu-ray movies. Follow this way, and then you can take full advantage of your own purchased BD movies in your own ways.

Required software:

Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripper for Mac

Pavtube Blu-ray Ripper for Mac is a powerful tool specially designed for Mac users to rip, convert, backup and edit both Blu-ray and DVD movies. The source file could be from Blu-ray disc, DVD, Blu-ray and

DVD folder, ISO and IFO image file. The ripper is capable of decrypting region codes, and almost all copy protections, including AACS, BD+. Besides backup movies to hard drive, it also supports output other

popular audio and video formats to playback on your beloved portable devices such as iPod, iPhone, Zune, Blackberry, PSP, Creative Zen, Xbox 360, Apple TV etc.

Well, following is the solution:

1. Download and install Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripper for Mac, after that, launch this program and click "DVD Folder" or "IFO File" to load BD movies into this program.

2. If you just want to rip the main movie, you can tick the file with the longest duration time only. Afterwards, click on the pull down menu of "Subtitle" and "Audio" to select your wanted language. The preview

window is able to show the effect of your dynamic switching on subtitle and audio track in real time.

3. Click the drop-down list of "Format" to select output format, and if you want to retain the original quality to full extent regardless of the output format, you can choose "Copy", and then "Directly Copy".

4. Click "Settings" button to adjust audio and video parameters like codec, aspect ratio, bit rate, frame rate, sample rate, and audio channels.

5. Click "Convert" button to start BD ripping and BD+ copy protection removing. As long as the ripping work is finished, you can click "Open" button to get the output files which are in your desired format and

without neither AACS nor BD+ copy protection.

Additional Tips:

Generally, Blu-ray media has a large file size because of its high definition quality, so the ripping time will be longer than that of standard DVDs. To avoid waiting around, you can click "Option" button to tick off

the checkbox "Shut down the computer after conversion". Do remember clicking on "OK" button to save your settings.

If you are a Windows user, you can free download this Blu-ray ripper to remove BD+ protections on your PC.

How to convert DVD to AVI, MPEG, WMV, MOV, MP4, MP3 on Mac and enjoy them on iPod, iPhone, Zune, PSP, etc.

Sun, 07 Mar 2010 04:52:14 -0500

Step 1: Download, install and run PavtubeDVD Ripper for Mac

Step 2: Import DVD files, set output format and destination folder.

Step 3: Set advanced settings

Step 4: Convert

Additional Tips:

1. Pavtube DVD Ripper for Mac supports importing unprotected DVDs and protected DVDs.

2. The conversion speed of this software is 1.5-2 times faster than the similar DVD rippers.

3. Ripping by chapters is supported.

4. There are no audio and video out of sync issues.

5. With exception of adding text as watermark, images, GIF animations, and videos can also be added as watermarks to realize the picture-in-picture effect.

6. You can use the "Trim" function to select certain DVD clips to convert. And you can also take advantage of the "Crop" function to remove black edges or change the screen size.

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

How to convert DVD to AVI, MPEG, WMV, MOV, MP4, MP3 on Mac and enjoy them on iPod, iPhone, Zune, PSP, etc.

Sun, 07 Mar 2010 04:52:12 -0500

Step 1: Download, install and run PavtubeDVD Ripper for Mac

Step 2: Import DVD files, set output format and destination folder.

Step 3: Set advanced settings

Step 4: Convert

Additional Tips:

1. Pavtube DVD Ripper for Mac supports importing unprotected DVDs and protected DVDs.

2. The conversion speed of this software is 1.5-2 times faster than the similar DVD rippers.

3. Ripping by chapters is supported.

4. There are no audio and video out of sync issues.

5. With exception of adding text as watermark, images, GIF animations, and videos can also be added as watermarks to realize the picture-in-picture effect.

6. You can use the "Trim" function to select certain DVD clips to convert. And you can also take advantage of the "Crop" function to remove black edges or change the screen size.

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