Wondershare DVD Converter Tutorial

This is a step-by-step guide which will show you how to convert DVD Video to AVI, MP4, 3GP, WMV, FLV, MP4 AVC, M4V, MOV, 3G2, MPG, MPEG, WMA, M4A, MP3, AAC, AC3, ASF and VOB, etc. all kinds of videos (including standard and HD videos) format you need for your every devices with Wondershare DVD Converter.

 

Wondershare DVD Converter can help you convert DVD and video to almost all popular portable media players such as iPod, iPhone 3GS, BlackBerry, Zune, Apple TV, PSP, PS3, Archos, iRiver PMP Player, Creative Zen, Xbox 360, PMP, MP4/MP3 Player, Smart Phone, Pocket PC, PDA, Cell Phone and so on. The article consists of the following 2 parts.

 

Part 1: The step-by-step guide of basic operation to convert both DVD and Video.
Part 2: Tips on advanced video editing functions.

 

Part 1: The step-by-step guide of basic operation to convert both DVD and Video

First, please download Wondershare DVD Converter, install and run it.

 

This is the main interface of Wondershare DVD Converter. Please move your mouse on each part of this picture and you will get the detailed procedural steps for operation.

 

Actually the operation is very simple with only 3 main steps. Let's go through the easy steps.

 

Step 1: Select your videos and DVDs

There are 2 ways to select your input videos and DVDs.

1. Click "File" button in the menu list and then you can load both videos and DVDs directly.

 

2. Click "Add Video" button to load videos. And click "Load DVD" to load DVD from DVD Rom/Folder (data DVD) /IFO /ISO files respectively.

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Step 2: Select output settings

The second step is to select output settings. Here it is necessary for you to select the following output settings.

1. Select output format
Select your desired output format from the categorized output formats list in "Profile" drop-down list, and specify the output directory to save your converted files in "Output" drop-down list. Here I select iPod Touch MPEG-4 as output format for my iPod Touch.

 

2. Set output parameters

After selecting output format, you can set the related video/audio parameters (resolution, frame rate, video encoder, bit rate, sample rate and audio channel etc) in "Settings" window by clicking .

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Tip 1: You can customize your output format list. Click , select "Customize Output Formats" option, and you can customize your own output format list by checking the output formats you need and unchecking those you don't need. And then you will find the new output format list in "Profile" drop-down list.

 

Tip 2: You can also add multiple profiles to one file. Click "Add Profile", you can select your desired output formats. In this case, you can convert one file into different output formats at one time.

 

 

Step 3: Start to convert
After everything is set up simply hit the Start button. A conversion progress screen will be shown during the process where you can preview the video.  Users of slower systems will probably want to disable the preview as it uses more CPU cycles.

Part 2: Tips on advanced video editing functions.
Besides the above simple operation of conversion, there are some tips about video editing which may be of great help to you.

Tip 1: Merge multi-files into one

You can merge multiple files into one file. Check all files you want to merge and then click "Merge", the selected files will be merged into one file.

Tip 2: Clone a file
You can make a backup of one file. Check the file you want to make backup and click "Clone", then you will get another file the same as your original file.

Tip 3: Clip one file into multiple segments

You can clip one file into multiple segments. Select one file and click , you will get the following "Clip" page. Click to start a new clip. Click to mark the beginning of the new clip and to mark the end of the new clip.

Tip 4. Crop video
You can resize the video file after clicking "Crop" in "Video Edit" window. You can get the desired size of video for your player by selecting aspect ratio, drag cropping frame or setting the related parameters.

 

 

Tip 5: Adjust video effect
If you want to make some special effect to the video, you can realize it by setting brightness, contrast and saturation etc. You will get an intuitive preview of the video effect before and after adjusting with two real-time previewing panes.

 

 

Tip 6: Edit watermark
If you want to get a personalized video by adding some information to it as watermark, you can realize it by adding either text or image information. You are also allowed to resize the added text/image.

 

Tip 7: Capture picture from DVD or video
You can capture pictures from the DVD or video by clicking the "snapshot" button in the preview screen and save them as picture files.

 

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