AVCHD Converter – Convert AVCHD M2TS to AVI WMV MPEG MP4 MKV MOV
AVCHD files are a type of high-definition video created with certain types of digital camcorders. Although they are more widely known as AVCHD videos, these files are actually stored with the “M2TS(MTS)” file extension. Many video editing program and portable players are not able to recognize M2TS files, so if you want to edit an AVCHD file on windows movie maker or play AVCHD files on iPod, PSP, iPhone, Zune, Blackberry, Creative Zen, etc, you may need to convert the AVCHD file type first by using a video conversion software.

What we need is Daniusoft Video Converter, it’s an excellent video converter that can easily convert AVCHD M2TS MTS to AVI WMV MPEG MP4 MKV MOV, ect standard video audio files with high quality

And it just inlcudes a few steps for the whole AVCHD Conversion

Step 1. First copy the AVCHD (.M2TS) file from your video camera to your hard drive. then install and run Daniusoft Video Converter, Click the “Add Files” button to browse your computer hard disc and load the AVCHD video files you want to convert to the software.

Step 2. Output Settings
After you import AVCHD video files, you are allowed to select an output format for each video file and specify a directory on your computer to save the output files, If you want to convert avchd video for portable device and don’t know which formats your device supports, you can just select the format according to the device name.

In the output settings area you can click “Settings” button to customize the output parameters like video resolution, frame rate, bit rate, encoder, etc, if you want to make things simple, the default setting also works well.

Step 3. Click “Start” button on right bottom of the main interface, you are allowed to start conversion.

Advanced Function: How to crop/ trim/ effect AVCHD video files to improve the output Video quality(Optional)

After importing AVCHD video files, please click “Edit” button to access to the Video Edit panel.

Crop – adjust video size, Cut off the black edge of your AVCHD video to let you enjoy your movie in full screen by click the ‘Crop’ button.
You are allowed to finish cropping by the following three ways:

Dragging cropping frame – Move your mouse cursor onto one of the eight small adjustment boxes on the cropping frame (the dashed line) and drag the crop frame to crop the AVCHD Video file such as cutting off top and bottom black bar. The cropped result will be shown on the output Preview at the same time.

Selecting aspect ratio – You are allowed to select an output aspect ratio from the Zoom drop-down list. There are six choices available: Keep original, Full screen, 16:9, 4:3, Letter box and Pan & Scan.

Setting the values – Type the value directly or set the value in “Left”, “Right” and “Cropped area size” area to set the position of the cropping frame.

Trim – Clip video segment, trim any segment of your AVCHD Video clips to convert.
Similarly, it also offer 3 ways to realize trim function
Dragging the slider

Controlling “Mark in” and “Mark out” button

Setting start and end time

Video Effect – Switch to “Effect” tab and set the video effects as you want: brightness, contrast, saturation and Deinterlacing,etc.You can also choose the effect such as Emboss, Gray,negative,old film,or just no effect, which depending on your choice. All the progress you can preview clearly.

Design watermark – If you want to add some personal information either in text or image form as watermark to decorate your AVCHD video, you can realize it by click “Watermark”

Tips
What’s AVCHD
AVCHD (Advanced Video Codec High Definition) is a high definition (HD) digital video camera recorder format recording 1080i and 720p signals onto MiniDVD discs, MiniDV tape, Hard Drive, and digital camera Memory Cards, by using highly efficient compression format known as MPEG4 (H264). AVCHD was developed jointly by Matsushita (Panasonic), and Sony Corporation for use in their consumer camcorders. AVCHD recordings made on MiniDVD discs can be played back on some Blu-ray disc players, however, they cannot be played back on standard DVD players. Also, standard DVD recorders are not currently equipped to record DVDs in the AVCHD(with a .M2TS MTS file extension)format.

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What’s FLV or SWF?

FLV or SWF is the short name of flash video. Flash Video is a file format used to deliver video over the Internet. Because of the small file and fast loading speed, it is possible for us to watch video through internet real time. Most of the popular online video sites like YouTube, lulu, MySpace use FLV as the video format. The videos we watch or download from these sites are all FLV formats. After Google bought YouTube, FLV becomes more vividly than ever in nowadays WEB2.0 times.
But, these FLV Video can’t recognized by iPod for iPod only supports MP4 Video files, so we need the third party software to convert those downloaded FLV files to mp4 to play on iPod. Here I recommend you to use Daniusoft video converter which is the best video converting tool I am now using. By viewing this passages you will find that it is easy to use but with high converting speed and good converted results.

Here is the step by step way to convert FLV to MP4 and transfer FLV to iPod.

Step 1. Import FLV file. Click ‘ADD’ button to import FLV Video files into Daniusoft video converter. Or you can easily drag & drop files into the window. By the way, you can convert FLV videos in a batch.

Step 2. Customize the video output. (Optional).Click ‘Edit’ button, you are allowed to make wonderful video editing like adding rummy effect or watermark, even you can crop or trim the video.

Step 3. Select you output formats. Choose the output modules that have been designed for you. IPod touch, iPod Nano and iPod classic are all included. You shall select the most suitable one for you.

Step 4. Start. Click the ‘stat’ button and then enjoy it. You will get a high speed and good converting quality that you want.

Step 5. Transfer the converted video to iPod. It is just like what we usually do. Launch iTunes, click File option on menu, and add your converted files to iTunes library. Then，connect your iPod to computer via USB cable, iTunes will detect your iPod. After that, click iTunes ‘File -> Sync iPod’, and the files will be transferred to your iPod from iTunes library. When updating completed, you will find the videos on you iPod.

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In this article we will introduce 3 free ways to convert DVD to iTunes for iPod and iPhone.
1. Convert DVD to iTunes using Handbrake
2. Convert DVD to iTunes with VLC player
3. Convert DVD to iTunes with iSkysoft DVD Ripper

To speed up the process before conversion
Close any un-necessary activity to save more room and CPU usage for ripping DVD.
Blow away any previous tools and software you might have installed that you don’t need and you think might conflict with getting a good DVD rip.

Part 1 Free to convert DVD to iTunes using Handbrake

Handbrake is an open-source, GPL-licensed, multiplatform, multithreaded video transcoder, available for Mac OS X, Linux and Windows. You can follow the link to free download Handbrake.

Get start

Run Handbrake, select Source, load your DVD files. Handbrake will take about 1 minute to read your files.
Then open its main interface where you can determine the output destination and output format.

Advance settings (optional)
Picture settings – crop the picture.

Video settings – you can set the codec, frame rate, adjust the constant quality.
Audio & subtitle settings – You can set audio track, audio codec, sample rate, bitrate.

Convert
Assuming you have everything set, you are ready to convert. Click “start” then a processing Window pops up. You can also click “activity Window” to see the details.

The good
* Totally free.
* Nice GUI.
* Multiple platform including MAC, Windows, Linux.
* It has an activity Window that tells you the whole processing and it’s useful to us to specific the wrong.
* Easy to use.

The bad
* Limited format.
* No internal DVD decryption, which means you can only handle non-copyright protection DVDs.
* Not that stable on Windows as on Mac.

Part 2 Free to import DVD to iTunes with VLC player

Get start
Insert your DVD and run VLC Player. Then under Media click on Convert/Save.

The Open Media Window will appear and you want to click on the Disc tab. Check DVD, make sure the disc device field points to the optical drive with the DVD, and hit Convert/Save.  You can select the start position by selecting the title and only record a specific chapter on the DVD.

Click “convet /save” then a windows will pop up where you are allowed to select a location for the ripped file.
While you are browsing to the location to put the ripped file make sure to give it a name and a supported extension.

Convert
Now click “start” and wait until the conversion process finish.

The good
* Free
* Nice GUI.
* Easy to use

The bad
* Limited format.
* No internal DVD decryption which means you can only handle your no copyright protection DVDs.
* You will notice the conversion results in lower quality compared to the original.

Part 3 Transfer DVD to iTunes with iSkysoft DVD Ripper
iSkysoft DVD Ripper is a DVD Ripper software that can convert DVD to iTunes format or other various video formats. You can free download iSkysoft DVD Ripper here.
Get start
Run iSkysoft DVD Ripper, load your DVD files, about 1 minute all DVD titles will be listed in the main box.

Click the “destination file” to rename for each output file.

Output settings
Go to Format to set the output format (.mp4), go to Output to set the output dir. Hit setttings then a windows will appear for you to set frame rate, bit rate, resolution, encoder, etc.

Advance editing (optional)
After finished your output settings, you may need more editing. In this case, just go to “Edit” panel.

Video crop – You are allowed to crop the black bar, set the video zoom to 16:9/4:3/full screen.
Video trim – You can set the start time and end time to convert the particular part.
Video effect – Make special effect through brightness, contrast, saturation, built-in effects.
Watermark – add text (your name or your website) or pictures on the video.

Convert
After everything is done, just click “start” to begin the conversion.

The good
* Supports both encrypt and non-encrypt DVDs.
* Supports comprehensive formats.
* Multi threading processing.
* Good output quality.
* Additional edit including crop trim watermark, etc.
* Intimate settings “shut down computer after finish conversion”.
* Easy to use.

The bad
* A shareware that spread their products with trail version.
* No Linux version.
* The GUI of iSkysoft is not that nice as Handbrake and VLC player’s.

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1. How to download Video file from YouTube?

2. How to convert Youtube Video to play iPod Touch iPod Nano iPod Classic?

Part 1. How to save YouTube video to computer?

There are several ways to get videos from YouTube. Here I give you the following easy methods to save YouTube video, all of these methods work perfectly

1.Videodownloadx.com doesn’t have a lot of options, but it’s simple, and it works. Unfortunately, all the files are called get_video, and you have to add the .FLV extension manually.

Videodownloadx.com

2.KeepVid is another simple site. No hassle, works not only for YouTube movies but for a number of other sites, including Google Video, MySpace Video, DailyMotion and others. Again, you have to add the .FLV extension by hand.

KeepVid.com

3.Video Downloader supports even more video sharing sites, and it’s also available as a Firefox extension. Just like with KeepVid, all downloads are in .FLV format.

Video Downloader

So with so many methods you can easily download your favorite YouTube video to computer.

Part 2. How to download YouTube video on iPod Touch/Nano/Classic?

After you save Youtube Video on computer, you will see that the file download from YouTube are all .FLV files. And they cannot be played directly by iPod player. we need to convert videos from Youtube Video FLV to iPod MP4( even you can convert Youtube video to MP3 for any music player)

Here I share with youDaniusoft video converter. It is a full-function video format converter software that can help you convert video to other video formats like AVI, MP4, MOV, MPG, WMV, ASF, 3GP and so on. Besides it can help you extract audio from video and convert into MP3, AC3, AAC, WMA and WAV as you want. Then you can put MP4 into you iPod. In the following paragraph I will show you how to use Daniusoft video converter step by step.

Step 1. Import FLV file. Click “ADD” button and find destination where you put you YouTube file then import it into Daniusoft video converter. Or you can easily drag & drop files into the window.

Step 2. Customize the video output. (Optional).Click “Edit” button, you are allowed to make wonderful video editing like add rummy effect or watermark, even you can crop or trim the video.

Step 3. Select you output formats . You need not have to understand much about the video information that you can simply convert FLV into files that supported by iPod. You will find out that it is quite easy since there are several resolution thar are already designed. So isn’t it simple and easy to use?

Step 4. Start. Click the “stat” button and then enjoy it. You will get a high speed and good converting quality that you want.

OK, so far you have finished almost the work. Finally you can put your videos into iPod then enjoy!

Here are the additional tips for you to put converted videos to iPod.

Tips: Transfer downloaded YouTube video on iPod Touch iPod Nano iPod Classic with iTunes

First, launch iTunes, click File option on menu, and add your converted files to iTunes library. Then，connect your iPod to computer via USB cable, iTunes will detect your iPod. After that, click iTunes “File -> Sync iPod”, and the files will be transferred to your iPod from iTunes library. When updating completed, you will find the videos on you iPod.

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