How To burn Sony Handycam MTS files to Standard DVD with Ulead DVD MovieFactory 6?

Most HD (High-definition) digital camcorders produce MTS extension files, especially for Sony Handy cams. MTS files are AVCHD videos with perfect video quality, but not so widely accepted by editing software and media players as common video formats like MPEG, WMV and AVI. Besides, the MTS files must be burned to HD DVD or blu-ray disc to obtain the original HD quality (usually 1920*1080). Even if you find some trick to burn the MTS files onto standard DVD, it will turns out with degraded image and slow motion. In a word, you can not enjoy the HD effect unless the MTS files are burned onto HD DVD or blu-ray disc. Taking the cost of HD DVD and blu-ray disc into consideration, it is acceptable to burn the HD footages to DVD with a little quality degradation but fluent motion. How to optimize Sony Handycam footages for burning onto standard DVD? The following guide might give you some hint.

Software you will need:Pavtube HD Converter,Ulead DVD MovieFactory 6

Step 1. Launch Pavtube HD Converter and load MTS files into it.
You can click "Add" button to import .mts files, or directly drag and drop the files into this program.



Pavtube HD Converter can help you convert and burn your own MTS video to DVDs. It converts and burn MTS to DVD but also supports AVI,MPEG, MKV,MP4,VOB,MP4,WMV,and more compliant DVD Video set of files for burning to DVD.

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. To burn a DVD, I select Common Video-> MPEG-2 Video (*.mpg) as output format for DVD MovieFactory 6. Alternative formats are AVI, WMV and MOV. By the way, if you wanna combine multiple MTS 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. For standard DVD, a recommended setting is

Video
Codec: mpeg2video
Size (pix): 720*480 (NTSC) or 720*576 (PAL)
Bitrate (kbps): 8500
Frame rate (fps): 29.97
Audio
Codec: mp2
Sampling rate (hz): 48000
Bitrate (bps): 96000bps
Channels: Stereo



As the source MTS files are HD video and is usually with AC3 5.1 audio, you retain the 5.1 audio by adjusting the audio bitrate to 224000bps, and select 5.1 Channles in drop-down list of Channels box.

Step 4: Click "Convert" button to start conversion
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. After conversion completed you can click on "Open" button in the main interface to get the generated files.

[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.

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.
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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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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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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.

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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”.

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".

How to convert MKV to optimized FLV/ HD MP4 videos for Youtube?

You might have received some absorbing videos clips from your friends, which are in MKV container, or made a favorite movie from DVD to MKV with some free tools, now how share these videos with more people on YouTube? As we all know, MKV is not a good formats for YouTube. You got to convert them to something more common, like FLV and MP4, with proper resolution, length and size. How to convert MKV to FLV/ MP4 with optimal settings for upload? Although there are too many transcoding tools to choose from, few of them would allow you to process further editing such as cutting off unwanted parts, dividing a movie into multiple chapters (each less than 10 minutes and smaller than 2GB according to Youtube), adding some watermark to each of the chapter, and adjusting the aspect ratio. Surely you can import the video to editing software and handles it easily, but keep in mind that each time you convert a video from one type of compression to another, there will be some loss in quality. The best idea is to find a tool that can convert and edit MKV file---And Pavtube MKV Converter should be your top choice. In the following guide I will show you how to convert a MKV file to FLV format for YouTube.

You may learn more information about Pavtube MKV Converter for Mac , or download its free trail from here (Intel version) or here (PowePc version). Note that the trial version output video with watermark on the screen.

Convert MKV to FLV

1. Load MKV files
Run MKV Converter. Click ‘Add’ and browse to the MKV file(s) you would like to convert, select it and click open to load in as the picture shows below.

2. Set output format and location
Click on ‘Format’ bar to set output format. For common video, you may follow Flash Video-> FLV (H.264 encoded). For HD Video, you can select HD Video-> HD MP4. If you want to combine several MKV files as one, simply select them in file list and tick the checkbox ‘Merge into one file’. But keep in mind that any video longer than 10 minutes is probably rejected by Youtube. You may click the folder icon at the opposite side of ‘Output’ to specify output location.

3. Set advanced video and audio settings
Click on ‘Settings’ button to adjust video and audio parameters including codec, aspect ratio, bit rate, frame rate, sample rate, etc. The default resolution of FLV format is 320*240p (4:3), which is all right for YouTube.

For HD MP4, a recommended config is 1280*720p, 1500kbps, 24fps, 44.8khz, in case that you would maintain best video quality.

Note: Transcoding (conversion) can not upgrade the video quality. Please set no higher resolution than the source video. You can select a file and click ‘Properties’ button under the file list to check the original resolution.

4. Arrange chapters and sections.
When a file is too big to upload, you have to divide it to multiple chapters. To select a specific section of the selected video for conversion, you could click ‘Edit’ menu, switch to ‘Trim’ tab, and input specific time point in Start and End box, and click Set button.

5. Add watermark to the video and set effect.
Switch to ‘Text Watermark’ tab, check the ‘Enable’ box, and input desired text as watermark. You may click the dots button to set font, color, and size of the text, and set the position of watermark in ‘Left’ and ‘Top’ box. To add Image or Video as watermark, you can switch to Image/ Video Watermark tab. To set contrast, brightness and saturation, please click ‘Effect’ tab. After setting, click ‘OK’ button to save settings and exit editor.

6. Convert MKV to FLV/ HD MP4
When back to main interface, click ‘Convert’ button to start conversion. Once click this button, the ViewLog will present you all the info such as conversion progress, conversion state, elapsed and estimated conversion time, and generated and estimated conversion file size. After conversion you can click the ‘Open’ button to find the FLV files and upload them to Youtube.

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