Wednesday, April 28, 2010

[Good idea] Way to convert MVI files for PPT presentation

Many early digital still cameras, especially those manufactured by Canon, are capable of shooting a limited amount of video and saving the footage as an MVI file. MVI is actually certain type of AVI format. You may find it is neither supported by Windows Media Player, nor be edited in most editing software. However, chances are that you want to trim off certain part of the MVI file and insert the MVI files to PowerPoint for presentation. Well, if you are caught in this problem, Pavtube Video Converter might help you out. The converter, which is fairy powerful in converting videos of various formats for PPT, Adobe Premiere, Sony Vegas and universal portable media players like iPod, iPhone, Blackberry, Creative Zune, PSP and now even works with iPad, is proved to be a great MVI to PPT Converter. See below how to convert MVI to PPT compatible format and insert the clip to Powerpoint.

Part 1. Convert the MVI files to be compatible with PPT.
You shall download and install trail version of Pavtube Video Converter for converting MVI to PPT in advance.

Step 1. Import MVI files to Pavtube Video Converter.
Run the app and click "Add" button to import MVI files to the app (or simply drag and drop the source files into file list.) Double-click on it if you’d like to preview a file or take some snapshots.



Step 2. Set output format to be compatible with PowerPoint
Click the format bar and choose an appropriate format for output to PowerPoint. Follow PowerPoint-> WMV-2 (*.wmv) or MPEG-1 (*.mpg). You may also compress the file to save space by clicking “Settings” and set a smaller value in bitrate box.



Step 3. Specify output location for saving converted files
Click the small folder icon and browse to desired folder you would like to save the converted files.

Step 4.Convert MVI to WMV format
When all these are done, you can click "Convert" button to start. If you’d like to put some MVI clips into one file, please check the box “Merge into one file” before clicking “Convert”. In case that you need part of the clip, select the file and click “Edit” menu, then you can trim the video to any length under Trim tab and cut off unwanted part.

Step 5. Find the converted file
Click the “Open” button and the app will open the folder that contains converted files. Now the files are ready to be inserted to PowerPoint. New and used mac laptop, Computers Networking on eBay USA.

Part2. Add video to your PowerPoint.

Step 1. Open the PowerPoint file, within which you want to add the video.
Step 2. Click on a slide, which you want to display the video, and then choose Insert-> Object.
Step 3. Choose "Windows Media Player" as the object type in the pop-up "Insert Object" window.


Step 4. Right-click on the player widget, and choose "Properties".
Step 5. Enter the right path of the output video for the "URL" option.

Then you can show the clips on PowerPoint with small file size.

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Friday, April 23, 2010

How to use Pavtube Blu-ray Ripper rip/convert/backup your Blu-ray?

Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripper is a powerful Blu-ray editor, converter, and ripper. It removes the protections and enables movie lovers to backup, convert and edit both Blu-ray and DVD movie freely. With this easy-to-use tool you can rip your Blu-Ray discs and general DVDs at any length into other popular audio and video formats like AVI, ASF, MPEG, MP4, WMV, MKV, MOV, FLV, SWF, RM, 3GP, AAC, AC3, MP3, OGG, WAV, WMA, M4A, etc for playback and edit. The following guide gives you a general idea of how to use Pavtube Blu-ray Ripper. You may clickhere to download free trial and have a try. For more details about this product, please visit Blu-ray Ripper. Mac users may visit Blu-ray Rippper for Mac.

A detailed guide on how to use Pavtube Blu-ray ripper is for your reference below:

1. Load Blu-ray and DVD disc/ Folder.
For Blu-ray disc, click ‘BD/DVD ROM’; for Blu-ray Folder, click ‘BD/DVD Folder’ and browse to the Blu-ray directory.
Note: Blu-ray IFO/ ISO image file is not supported by the current version.

a. Title Mode
By default the files are listed in 'Title Mod', all the chapters are in numerical sequence for you to check individually. For checking the subordinate chapters of certain sequence, please click its plus sign. Generally, ‘Title001’ contains the main movie, and other Titles are commentary, menus, titles and ads. By default all the Titles are selected for editing and ripping. If you want to rip the main movie and nothing more, do uncheck other sequences. If you would like to retain everything in the Blu-ray disc, simply use the default settings. If you want to keep the movie in sections as it was made of, uncheck all the Titles and check all the subordinate Chapters.

Tip: A fast way to select the main movie is, right-click in file list field and choose ‘Uncheck All’ in shortcut menu and then check the main movie (longest m2ts file). To check all the chapters, simply choose ‘Check Subchapters’.



b. File Mode
Click 'File Mode'??if you’d like to switch to file mode. In File Mode the movie clips are listed as they are made of. And you can check and preview each chapter.


Tip: In File mode all the m2ts files in file list are checked by default. If you want to select but the main movie, a fast way is to right-click and choose ‘Uncheck All’ in shortcut menu and then check the main movie (longest m2ts file).

c. Quick Copy
To make a quick and full copy of the Blu-ray movie, you can click 'Full Disk Copy'. In this way all contents in the Blu-ray disc will be copied to your hard drive, including the menus and titles. After the process completed, you may click 'Open' button??to locate the Blu-ray directory. Open BDMV-> STREAM folder and you will find all the m2ts movie clips.

2. Preview and Snapshoot
Double-click on a file to preview when you would like to preview it. You are allowed to take snapshots when previewing the movie. Simply click ‘Snapshoot’ button. To set image format, location and size of thumbnails, please click ‘Option’ menu. To locate the thumbnails, please click ‘Open folder’ button.



3. Select Subtitle and Audio track
Right below the file list you could find ‘Subtitle’ and ‘Audio’ drop-down list, where you may set subtitles and dubbings to the languages you like. Always select the title/ chapter before setting its subtitle and audio. In the preview window you can check the Subtitles and Audio track.

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Note: By default no subtitle is selected. Some chapters have no subtitle or audio, in that case the Subtitle list will show ‘None’ only.

4. Set output format
Click on Format bar to select an appropriate format from the profile list. Blu-ray Ripper features various output formats for portable players, removable devices and multiple editing software. You can click the up arrow and down arrow to view the formats. To further customize the format, please click 'Settings' button??and adjust advanced video/ audio parameters. For instance, when you rip Blu-ray to MKV container format for playback on HD TV, you can follow HD Video->HD MKV then click “Settings” and customize advanced audio and video parameters. For instance, you may set Video to 1920*1080p (to fit for the wide screen), 25mbps, 24fps, and Audio to AC3/AAC codec, 192kbps, 5.1 channels. Do not forget to click ‘OK’ to confirm your settings.



Tips on selecting format:
A. If you only want to backup the Blu-ray m2ts files to your hard disc, please select Copy->directly copy as output format. ('Full Disk Copy' copies m2ts files and the BD structure)
B. If you want to rip the Blu-ray movie to portable players like iPod, Archos 5/7, Creative Zune, iPhone, Gphone, Blackberry etc, first find the corresponding format group and then find a proper format (resolution) to fit for the model of your player (better check the screen resolution to make sure the format be right).
C. If you would like to rip the Blu-ray movie to Apple TV, PS3, Xobx 360 etc for enjoying on wide screen TV, you are recommended to select a higher resolution(1280*720 and above) for better effect. 5.1 sounds is available for some formats, not all. You could click 'Settings' button and check if 5.1 channels is available.
D. If you would like to rip Blu-ray movie for editing, please follow Powerpoint, Adobe Premiere/ Sony Vegas or Remux to transode the m2ts files to editable formats. To acquire lossless movie clip, Remux->MPEG2/TS is recommended.

5. Set output location
Either type in save path in Output field or click the small folder icon and specify a desired output location.




6. Start ripping Blu-ray disc.
Click on the 'Convert' button??and the program will rip Blu-ray movies to desired format. Blu-ray ripping is time-consuming. You can set auto shutdown in progress window (it pops up once you click Convert) or leave it there and come back later (the ripper will tell you how long it takes).




7. Find output files.
Click the ‘Open’ button??next to Output bar and the ripper will open output folder that the generated files saved to.

8. Play m2ts files on PC.
If you choose ‘Full Disk Copy’ mode or ‘Copy-> Directly Copy’ format, the ripper will copy the original Blu-ray m2ts files to your hard drive. To play the m2ts files, you may use VLC player or KMPlayer.

Editing features of Blu-ray Ripper
Pavtube Blu-ray Ripper also features some editing facilities. If you want to cut off black edges, trim the movie to desired length, divide the movie to multiple segments, replace the original audio with favorable music, add text/image/video watermark to the movie, rotate the image, adjust the volume of the movie etc, please click Edit

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Wednesday, April 14, 2010

How to rip Blu-ray movie to PS3 on Mac OS X?

PS3 is more than a game console and Blu-ray disc player. Just connect a compatible USB device, like a digital video camera or storage device, with saved digital video content and you can enjoy digital videos that you've filmed or saved on PS3. You can play Blu-ray disc, but when the Blu-ray is copied to removable storage, it refuses to work. This guide is to tell you how to rip Blu-Ray disc to HD MP4 for playback on PS3. Simply download and install Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripper for Mac and with this program you can rip Blu-Ray DVD to other video formats compatible with PS3 in an easy and fast way. Besides, the program also allows users to snapshoot the desired pictures and clip the video segment when previewing.

Step 1: Load Blu-ray disc. Before launching Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripper for Mac, hook the BD drive with your Mac and put Blu-ray disc in. Click “DVD Folder” to import Blu-Ray movies, browse to the drive and click “Choose”. You do not have to open the any of the folders. When the M2TS files are imported to file list, check the main movie and leave other files unchecked. The main movie is the largest M2TS file and you can check it in preview window. You could import Blu-ray movie from folders in the same way.

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Tip: you can click “Edit” button to perform edit functions such as crop, trim, flip, add effect, add watermark and replace audio.

Step 2: Set Output format. Click on “Format” bar to choose the output format. Point to PSP/PS3 and there are MP4 encoded with H.264 of 480p, 720p and 1080p. Click on “Settings” and you can set the size of video to adapt your HDTV aspect ratio, for example, set pixel to 1920*1280, and frame rate to 29.97.

Step 3: Convert. Just click the Convert” buttonto begin the Blu-Ray to PS3 conversion. The conversion progress is faster than most other software. After conversion you can transfer the movie to removable storage and watch it with PS3 whenever you like.

If you are interested in this program, please click here to download free trail of Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripper for Mac.

How to get Blu-ray MKV video with 5.1 sound for WDTV

WD TV HD Media Player enables users to watch high-definition videos from Camcorder drive and USB storage devices freely on big screen HDTV. It supports quite a number of video formats, even DVD ISO image file. Many DVD collectors would rip DVD to ISO and play them back over WDTV so as to protect their DVDs from scratching and quality loss caused by playbacks. Some High-definition fans would be disappointed to find that Blu-ray ISO file can not be read by WD TV. But there is nothing to regret, still we have other way to go through. Since MKV video is well supported by WD TV HD Media Player, a best solution is to rip Blu-ray movie to HD MKV with Dolby Digital 5.1 channels, which is compatible with WD TV HD Media Player.

The following guide focus on how to rip Blu-ray disc to HD MKV with 5.1 channels. You could download the clean trial version of Pavtube Blu-ray Ripper from here. The trial version provides full access to the functions so that you could test the conversion quality. The application is proved to works stably on Windows 7. In addition, you need a BD drive, either internal or external.

Step One. Getting started.
Put Blu-ray disc in BD drive. Run Blu-ray Ripper for Mac and the interface below will pop up. Click “DVD ROM” to load in Blu-ray disc. It takes a few seconds till all the M2TS files be loaded to file list. Check the main movie and leave unwanted M2TS files unchecked. The main movie can be distinguished by its duration---the longest one. Below the file list you could find "Subtitle" and "Audio" droplist, where you can set output subtitles and dubbings to the languages you like.


Step Two. Adjusting audio and video settings.
Right below the file list lays the “Audio” option, where you could adjust the dubbing to your native language. Tracks are identified by numbers so you have to listen by yourself to make sure which is the right one you want. You could view the files in preview window. Then click “Settings” and customize advanced audio and video parameters. Here you choose a favorable format from versatile video and audio formats. Since we’re talking about 5.1 sound, it will be a nice idea to choose HD Video-> MKV HD Video. Set "Codec" to "AC3" and “Channels” to “5.1 channels”, and confirm your settings by clicking “OK”.How to rip Blu-ray to Wii? It's just a small task as for Blu-ray to Wii ripper - AVCWare Blu Ray Ripper which helps you to rip Blu-ray.

Step Three. Ripping Blu-ray to MKV and get 5.1 sound.
Finally click on “Convert” button to start ripping Blu-ray disc. Blu-ray ripping is time-consuming. You could set auto shutdown in progress window (it pops up once you click Convert) or leave it there and come back later (the ripper will tell you how long it takes).

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Tip 1: A view log will pop up when you import Blu-ray movie to the app, simply click "OK" to confirm and close it. (or press Alt+O)

Tip 2: By default all the M2TS files are checked, you may right-click at the file list area and try "Uncheck All".

Tip 3: To eliminate the interlacing lines, you can perform "Deinterlacing" feature under "Edit"-> "Effect".

Thursday, April 8, 2010

How to Convert M4V to MPEG for edit in iMovie?

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 be compatible with iMovie. Please find a step-by-step guide below.

In order to convert M4V files, you need a Video Converter for Mac. And I recommend you Pavutbe Video Converter, 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 HD Video Converter for Mac and click on “Add” to import source 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.

Blu-ray converter allows you convert blu-ray and general dvd to various video and audio formats like avi, mp4, wmv, mpeg, mkv, mov, xvid, mp3 without any loss.


(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. www.yourdailymedia.comIf 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 conversion you can edit the converted files in iMovie freely.

Thursday, April 1, 2010

Pavtube MTS/M2TS Converter for Mac 1.8.1.1388



Pavtube MTS/M2TS Converter for Mac is specially developed for people who are using the AVCHD digital camcorders including Canon HF S11 and HF 21. It can help them to edit and convert their high definition record videos (*.mts or *.m2ts) to other video and audio formats, such as MP4, 3GP, 3G2 AVI, MPG. MOV, MKV, AVI, FLV, VOB, SWF, MP3, FLAC, OGG, WAV, AC3, M4A, MP3, WAV etc.

With Pavtube MTS/M2TS Converter for Mac you can:

Convert and compress videos from Blu-ray DVD or HD camcorders.

Deinterlace, trim, watermark to edit the videos.

Perfect video-audio synchronization.

Multiple video picture and sound quality optimizing functions.

Support VFW codec encoding and 5.1 channel audio output.

What's New
- Date: Mar 1, 2010 (v1.8) - Added the option of automatic shutdown.
- Date: Dec 5, 2010 (v1.8) - Fixed for crashes that occur when the software works with Intel Core i5/ i7.
- Reinforced the merging feature.
- Date: Dec 31, 2009 (v1.7) - Added support for Dolby TrueHD audio codec.

- Further optimized the performance of audio video synchronization.
- Added new profiles and allow the users to customize and save profile settings.
- Made watermark function easier to use.
- Date: Oct 15, 2009 - Added function of keeping original aspect video in Crop window.
- Added options of Auto Rename, Overwrite, Skip the file for the same existed converted file.
- The output profile, folder settings converted last time will be remembered by this program when start again.
- Added new content Zune HD as output format for Zune users.

Key Features:

Intuitive interface
You are expected to enjoy the MTS video with easy steps, with the help of the intuitive streamlined UI.

Multi-thread technology supports faster conversion speed
This program optimized its conversion speed with multi-thread technology, so that you can convert the MTS 1.5 or 2 times faster than other similar programs. http://www.open-video.org/

Simple gauss blur effect
Simple gauss blur effect is very useful to recorded file formats, since it can eliminate the recorded videos noise. If you like, you can also add other special effects including simple laplacian sharpen, gray, flip color, invert, aged film and deinterlacing. What is worth mentioning is the deinterlacing, which can convert interlaced video into a non-interlaced form so that you can enjoy a better and clearer video effect.

Accurate trim and crop your AVCHD (*.m2ts or *.mts)
The accurate trim and crop function allows you to trim the proper time length for MTS/M2TS videos, as well as cut off any unwanted area. Its original video and output video preview windows will also be convenient for you to edit.

Merge multiple videos
You can join multiple videos into one bigger file for conversion,

Replace original audio
To replace the original audio is easy to be realized under the Editor sections.

Add text, image, and video watermark
This program supports to add different watermark types, including text, image (including GIF), and video watermark. With its video watermark function, you can add a picture-in-picture effect to your video.

Catch wallpaper or editing images
If you want to capture video images as your wallpaper or editing elements, just click the snapshot on the preview area.

Audio and video sync technology
The program adopted advanced audio and video sync technology; never let you troubled by the audio and video issues.

Built-in codec
Its built-in codec will not install any codec on your computer, so as to avoid the unexpected codec problem.

System Requirements

1G Hz or above PowerPC G4/G5 or Intel processor

Mac OS X (including Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger, v10.5 Leopard and v10.6 Snow Leopard) on iMac, MacBook, Mac Pro, etc.

512 MB physical RAM (memory) or more

1024*768 or higher resolution display

Download Pavtube MTS/M2TS Converter for Mac:

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