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As we know we can edit video with Windows Movie Maker and iMovie free video editing software, but if you want to edit video by using them you need to make sure the video file is the right format as Windows Movie Maker accepts only WMV, AVI video formats, and iMovie accepts only MOV. Of cause, you can use a video conversion software to adjust the format but the conversion process would certainly destroy the quality.

Here I would like to introduce a few copy of video editing software that can edit video without conversion so the quality will keep original. They are Video Joiner, Video Cutter and Video Splitter, you can follow these simple guides to edit video files after downloading them.

Part 1 How to join video clips into a single video file

1. Download Aimersoft Video Joiner and install
2. Load video clips you want to edit
3. Select the “Profile” and “video size”
4. You can also edit the “Settings” to get better output quality
5. “Start”

Part 2 How to cut video clips

1. Download Aimersoft Video Cutter
2. “Add video” file
3. Create video clips by clicking the “New Clip” button, and the new clip will appear in the right window.
4. Drag the two little triangles to mark the period you want to cut.
5. Repeat 1-4 to cut another video clip.
6. “Start”

Part 3 How to split a video file into a few parts

1. Download Aimersoft Video Splitter
2. “Add” video file
3. Drag the time line and create a triangle to split the video by clicking the scissor icon
4. “Start”
5. You can also split the video averagely by using Automatic Mode

In this guide we will explain how to convert MKV to AVI WMV MPEG MP4 VOB DVD with iSkysoft MKV Converter(http://www.hd-dvd-ripper.net/video-converter.html#139). It includes 2 parts.
Part1: some knowledge about MKV video format
Part2: how to convert MKV to AVI WMV MPEG MP4 VOB DVD and add subtitle to MKV

Part1 some knowledge about MKV video

What’s MKV video format?
An MKV file is a Matroska file, the Matroska Multimedia Container is an open standard free Container format . It is similar in conception to other containers like AVI, MP4 or ASF, but is entirely open in specification, with implementations consisting mostly of open source software. Matroska file types are .MKV for video (with subtitles and audio), .MKA for audio-only files and .MKS for subtitles only.

How to play MKV files on Windows?
In principal you can play MKV files on almost every Mediaplayer on Windows if you have the latest CCCP playback pack from Matroska Download Page installed, as most of these players are based on Microsoft DirectShow (TM).

Part2 how to convert MKV to AVI WMV MPEG MP4 VOB DVD and add subtitle to MKV?

Things you will need
MKV video
MKV Converter
Seperated subtitle in srt format

Get Start:
1. Download a iSkysoft MKV Converter(http://www.hd-dvd-ripper.net/video-converter.html#139), install and run it

2. Put your MKV subtitle in the same folder with MKV video and name as the MKV.
ie. D:\Movie\chd-ntbos-bdrip.MKV D:\Movie\chd-ntbos-bdrip.srt

3. Then select “Add” button to load the MKV video files, this MKV Converter will detect your subtitle and add it automatically.

4. Click the "Convert to" drop-down button to choose the output formats;
Click the "Target Path" button to find the destination folder for output file;

Question: I emailed myself a video I took from my blackberry curve. When i try to play the video on my computer it says it can't find the file extension. What is the deal?

Answer: The deal is that you either need a program installed on your computer that can play the video file, or a program that will convert it to a common video format like Quicktime or Windows Media.

I'll cover both approaches, and will introduce you to some free and low-cost programs that'll handle the video viewing and converting. I'll also show you how to convert Quicktime or Windows Media videos into a format that can be viewed on a Blackberry, iPhone, or virtually any mobile device that supports video.

Video Players

Most computers come with some form of a video player, such as Windows Media Player that plays video files with a .wmv extension. You can also get the Quicktime video player for free from Apple that plays .mp4 video files.

However, videos that are recorded from a mobile device will usually have a different file extension, such as .3GP for movies recorded on Motorola RAZR phones. These videos won't play in Quicktime or Windows Media.

You'll need a video player designed to read the video format that your specific mobile device uses, or better yet - one that can play a wide range of video formats so that you'll still be in luck if you switch phones in the future.

Rather then look for a universal video file player, look for a video file converter. Not only will you get the ability to view all kinds of video files, but you'll be able to convert them to be viewable on other devices or other computer systems like a Macintosh. Two for the price of one.

Video Converters

I found many gadget owners asked this kind of questions – “How to rip DVD to my iPod/iPhone/Zune/PSP/etc?” and “I tried to put videos on my iPod, but it always turned up some errors”.

Actually, these are common issues for digital players as different players support different video formats, and if your want to play DVD movie with your gadget, you also need to rip DVD to video formats that your gadget support. In order to solve this issue, you can download a program that supports DVD ripping and another program that supports video conversion.

There are many this kind of suppliers on Google, just find what you need. Here I would like to recommend a comprehensive program that can rip DVD and also convert video, and it also provides some useful video editing features such as Video Clip, Screen crop, etc.

Aimersoft Video Converter Pro

This software called Aimersoft Video Converter Pro, it can convert both DVD and video, see the “Add Video” and “Load DVD” button.
Follow the easiest steps to rip DVD and convert video
1. “Add Video” or “Load DVD”
2. Select output format by click “Profile” drop list
3. “Start” conversion.

Input formats

Output formats

Or you can get advanced parameter setting or effect editing after you “Add Video”.
Here, I will use it to cut clips from a DVD and a Video file respectively then merge them into one video file.

1. Choose the video file you want to use then click the “scissor” in the “Edit Region”, you will see the window below. Customize the clips and press OK.
2. Do it again to DVD title you want to use.

How to Convert Canon Camcorders Panasonic JVC Everio MOD Video files to AVI WMV MPEG MP4 MOV VOB FLV

This is an article about what's MOD, how to play MOD files and convert MOD TOD Video files to AVI WMV MPEG MP4 FLV VOB MOV MKV MP3

Part 1.JVC camcorder, Cannon FS100 camera and other similar cameras record their movies as .MOD files. A question thus arises, what's MOD format, how to play MOD files on Computer?

.MOD files are actually MPEG-2 files with AC3 audio, similar to a VOB file on a DVD or the M2T files used on Sony hard drive camcorders, this video file format is used on many digital camcorders, such as the JVC Everio, the Canon FS100 and the Panasonic D-Snap SD-card camcorders. For playback, I liked the VLC player the best. An alternative player is MPlayer (but it played my movies rather slow)

Cuz MOD Video files are not supported by windows media player, windows movie maker and iPod, iPhone, PSP, Zune, Creative Zen, Blackberry, etc portable MP3 MP4 Players, Cell Phone, so if you want to import MOD files from your camcorders to edit on windows movie maker, or play on iPod, even burn to DVD Disc? You may need to convert MOD Video files fist, here is a tutorial that will outline one method of convert Canon Panasonic JVC Everio MOD TOD files to AVI WMV MPEG MP4 FLV VOB MOV MKV MP3, etc common video formats

Part 2.How to Convert MOD Video files to AVI WMV MPEG MP4 FLV VOB MOV MKV MP3

The tool we need is Daniusoft MOD Converter, you can free download it here
http://www.daniusoft.com/mod-converter.html

Step 1. First copy the .MOD file from your video camera to your hard drive. then install and run Daniusoft MOD Converter, Click the "Add Files" button to browse your computer hard disc and load the MOD/TOD video files you want to convert to the software

As a lot of music playing devices, such as the pretty new Nintendo DSI, require DSI AAC files and not MP3s. Files converted to AAC will play fine on any AAC compliant device.

This article is about how to convert MP3 to M4A (DSI AAC file) for Nintendo DSI with two methods. First, convert MP3 to M4A with iTunes (free). 2. Convert MP3 to M4A with MP3 to M4A converter.

Part 1. How to convert MP3 to M4A (DSI AAC) with iTunes?

1?Open iTunes, select "Edit then Preferences and click on the General tab. Now click the button that says Import Settings.

2?Change the Import using drop down menu to AAC encoder. Select the bit rate you fancy, have it as high as the highest bitrate MP3 file you want to convert so you are losing as little quality as possible. Hit “OK” and close the preferences menus.

3?Select the file you want to convert to M4A in library (You must select “view” as “show item in list”) right click it and choose “Create AAC Version”, the converted files will appear in a few seconds, right click it and choose “Show in Windows Explorer”.

This won’t delete your MP3 files, you will get M4A files alongside your existing MP3 files. Later, you can delete your MP3 files and save some diskspace.

If you want to remove all your MP3s after converting to MP3 to M4A:

Firstly make sure you really want to do this, it will save space on your hard disk but personally I would reccomend that you burn all your MP3s to CD/DVD before deleting them.

1. Open iTunes

2. Select Library

3. Right click on a column name (Bit Rate or Name for example)

4. Make sure Kind is ticked as this shows you the file types

5. Click on the Kind column title to sort the file types

6. Left click your first MP3, hold down shift, left click the last MP3 in the list

7. Press delete

This is for all those iPhone 3G owners still in fix and searching for ways to watch videos on your new gadget. Today I'll let you know how to watch DVD movies and videos from other sources on your iPhone.

To begin with you need to know the formats your iPhone can play.

The Video Formats Supported by iPhone Include

H.264 video, up to 1.5 Mbps, 640 by 480 pixels, 30 frames per second, Low-Complexity version of the H.264 Baseline Profile with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats; H.264 video, up to 2.5 Mbps, 640 by 480 pixels, 30 frames per second, Baseline Profile up to Level 3.0 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, .mov file formats

The Audio Formats Supported by iPhone Include

MP3, MP3 VBR, WAV, AAC, Protected AAC, Audible (formats 2, 3, and 4), Apple Lossless, AIFF

Now to watch the DVD movies and videos what you need to do is simply rip the DVD movies or convert the video files into a video/audio format supported by iPhone 3G. After you have the files in a compatible format upload them into your iPhone through the sync of iTunes Library.

To convert the video files you need to download the Clone2Go DVD to iPhone Converter.

So are you all set? Let's start the process now.

Step 1

1. First open the iPhone converter.
2. Add DVD video or audio files.
3. If the DVD movie you need to convert is on your disc drive, click on the DVD button.
4. In case you have saved it in a hard drive, click the Add video button and locate the folder.
5. Locate the path of the folders VIDEO_TS and AUDIO_TS. the .vob files appear.
   

How to Burn DVD to ISO File on Mac?

As we all know, sometimes, we want to save our favorite DVD not copying another DVD disk but saving in our computer. For such kind of condition, we will have two ways to storage our DVD, one to save as DVD Folder or ISO File. Of course, Create ISO file on Mac would give you an easy way to play your ISO file quickly and can be burned into DVD directly when you need. Now the step by step guide will teach you how to copy your DVD and create an ISO file on Mac quickly.

Step 1 Please launch the DVD Copy for Mac and insert your DVD.

Step 2 Choose “Copy to your hard disk” and “ISO Image” to copy DVD to ISO on Mac.

Step 3 Type in the DVD name and choose the location where you want to save.

Step 4 Start burning DVD to ISO on Mac and just wait for the burning finished.

Now you have finished creating an ISO File to your Mac, then you can enjoy watching your movie on your Mac.
And if anytime, you want to copy the ISO file to another DVD disc, just use disk utility to do that!

Go to know more about DVD to ISO Burner-DVD Copy for Mac: http://www.applemacvideo.com/mac-dvd-copy.html#131

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The following tutorial will show you how to remove DRM from iTunes protected AAC (M4P) music and convert M4P to (DRM free) WMA/MP3 so as to put iTunes M4P music onto Rhapsody, Napster, Limewire for syncing to a lot more mobile players.

Why Put iTunes M4P music onto Rhapsody Napster Limewire?

When you purchase music from iTunes Store, you actually get DRM protected content (in protected AAC or M4P format), which you will not be able to play on MP3/MP4 players and other non-Apple mobile players. You cannot directly transfer the M4P files to Rhapsody, Napster, Limewire, either. In such case, the option is to burn those tracks to an audio CD and then rip them once again to your computer hard drive wherein the DRM will be removed and you will get the tracks in (DRM free) MP3 or WMA format. After this you will be able to transfer them to Limewire, Rhapsody or Napster.

In case you have purchased a great amount of music from iTunes Store, you can go ahead and use TuneClone M4P to MP3 Converter which acts as a Virtual CD-ROM drive on your PC and lets you remove the DRM element without having to waste actual CD's, with the music ID3 tags info well preserved.

Step by Step: Burn and Rip iTunes M4P Music for Limewire/Rhapsody/Napster?

1. Insert a CD-R or CD-RW disc into your CD-ROM drive.

2. Burn the iTunes M4P playlist to make an audio CD. You cannot select the "MP3 CD" option since it requires the DRM protected iTunes M4P files be converted to MP3 or WMA files for Rhapsody, Napster, Limewire.

3. After the audio CD is successfully burned, insert the disc into your CD-ROM drive again. Then you can use iTunes or Windows Media Player to import the music tracks on the burned disc as MP3 or WMA files.

The following article focuses on different channels of listening to music on iPod and iPhone. To enjoy music on iPod and iPhone, you first need to get the music in iPod/iPhone format onto iTunes library and then sync the music to your iPod/iPhone.

Channel 1. Buy music from iTunes Store for iPod/iPhone

To find and buy music from the iTunes Store, just click on the "iTunes Store" link under "Store" in the left column of iTunes. Once in, you're greeted with the iTunes Store interface, with links on the left-hand side that take you to Music, Movies, TV Shows, Music Videos, Audiobooks, and Podcasts. After you've chosen a song or album to buy, just click on the "Buy Song" or "Buy Album" button for that selection.

Channel 2. Import your CDs into iTunes for iPod/iPhone

If you own a few CDs, you can import them into iTunes for your iPod/iPhone. Since you've already spent money on this music, there's no reason why you should have to buy it all over again just to get the songs into iTunes. Apple made it simple to rip a CD to your library.

By default, iTunes rips songs to AAC format, and although AAC is a very high-quality format, it isn't as widely-supported as the ubiquitous MP3 format, which enjoys support from virtually every digital music player known to man, including iPod and iPhone. To ensure greater portability of your music (and prevent you from feeling locked into one product just because you've ripped all your music in one format), I suggest ripping your CDs as MP3s. To do so, go to Edit -> Preferences. In the General tab, click the Import Settings... button. In the pop up dialog window of Import Settings, select MP3 Encoder from the Import Using dropdown menu and Higher Quality (192 kbps) from the Setting dropdown.