How To Convert Video To Mp4/avi/mkv And Portable Players On Mac Os .

haiyeer

Aug 26 2009, 03:58 AM

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Do you have at least one of these iPod, iPhone, Walkman, Creative Zen, Apple TV, Nokia, Blackberry, Zune, PSP, etc? Do you feel some trouble that these portable devices cannot accept all formats of video and lots of wonderful video can only be enjoyed on computer? Here I’d like to introduce a powerful converter to you so that you can enjoy your video better.
Nidesoft Mac Video Converter is an excellent video converter for Mac OS X software.
This Video Converter for Mac can convert all popular video format files to other video format files, such as convert AVI to MP4, convert MOV to AVI, convert MPEG to MKV and so on with high quality and super fast conversion speed.

Friendly tips:
This Video Converter for Mac supports abundant input and output format files.
* Support Apple series players: iPod nano, iPod touch, iPod classic, iPhone 3G, iTunes;
* Support Blackberry family: Blackberry Storm, Blackberry Bold, Blackberry Curve, Blackberry Pearl
* Support Nokia series family: Nokia 5800, Nokia N97, N95, N81, N73, Nokia 6300, 3120, 6120;
* Support many other players: PSP, Google Phone, Apple TV, Zune, Creative Zen, Sony, MP4 player and MP3 player, etc.

Guide: How to use this Video Converter for Mac

Step1: Free download Nideosft Video Converter for Mac from: http://www.nidesoft.com/downloads/video-converter.dmg

Step2: Run this program.

Step3: Load the video files that we want to convert.
Click “Add” button to add video files.

Step4: Select the output format
Click "Format" combo box to select the output format, such as to mp4 for ipod, iphone, zune, psp, creative zen, Blackberry, Nokia, apple TV, etc. If you don’t know what formats your device supports, you can just select the format according to the device name.

If you want to customize the output quality, you could see the “Setting” on the right of the UI. You could set Video Crop, Video Size, Video Bitrate and Audio Bitrate.
Note: Video Crop: The default setting is Automatic. If you want to crop video, you need to select Custom, and then input number in the top, bottom, left and right side of the blank box.

Step 5: Set the output folder
Use the default folder or click" Browse" to select other folder to save .

Step6: Start Conversion.
Click "convert" button, and the converting will be work automatically. After finish the conversion, the catalog kept the output video files will be automatically opened.

The Mac Video Converter is very easy to use with the simple UI. You could download it and have a free try! If you have any questions, you can go to our Websit: http://www.nidesoft.com/video-converter-mac.html, or send email to: support@nidesoft.com. We will solve the problem as soon as possible.

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evought

Oct 14 2009, 03:03 AM

If you do this kind of thing a lot, and especially if you go from DVD to iPod on a regular basis, Handbrake http://handbrake.fr/ is worth checking out. I use it primarily to slurp the contents of DVDs into iTunes. We have DVD sets for a number of television series and it is much easier to sort through them, find the episodes you want, add descriptions you can search, and watch a show or too without shuffling disks. I have a disability and tend to get stuck on the couch for significant periods of time. It is nice to be able to use Front-Row and the remote to flip through movies and audio books so I don't go out of my mind with boredom or have to ask my wife for help as much during those periods. I can set a DVD in the drive and one in my external burner, queue the episodes up and let HandBrake work through them overnight. You can change HandBrake's process priority from Activity Monitor (or renice from the command line) to let it behave better in the background while doing other stuff (adjust the priority BEFORE you start any conversions).

But I also use it every so often to batch convert videos already in digital format. I got the videos for a lecture series on wind energy systems from a retired professor recently (I used his textbook in college) and used Handbrake to convert them to a podcast format. Now I can watch the lectures on my iPod or potentially, set them up as a podcast from our website for others to watch. Handbrake made that pretty easy. I just added them to the batch queue and let it take several days to work through them all. I converted some DVDs during that time as well without any complex juggling. Just add them to the queue, move things around in the queue if you want, and it will work through them one by one.

Handbrake will handle most common input formats and has a dizzying array of output options. It comes with common presets such as "iPod" and "Apple Universal" that are easy to use and seldom have to be modified. I find that, for instance, I have to change settings for animated movies that pixelize too much and that is about it.

Handbrake seems to make very good use of both processors/cores and available I/O. I don't know how well it will do on more than four cores, however. It does need PLENTY of RAM. When we only had 128 MB, it was very slow. Adding even another 128 MB makes a big difference, and a GB or two means it can run smoothly while doing other things.

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