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Wanna rip your Blu-ray / standard DVD movies, and convert different?video files to your new iPhone 4 for entertainment?Generally speaking, to rip Blu-ray discs, you need a Blu-ray ripper; to rip DVD collection,you need a DVD ripper; to convert video files in different formats, you need a video?converter.That is to say you need at least three programs to deal with all of?your on hand movies and video files.But have you ever considered if there is a?three-in-one application to achieve all the conversion totally? Suppose you are looking for such an application,then Pavtube iPhone Converter Ultimate is a proper choice for you. Go to find a detailed guide from the following paragraphs.

Before we start, some information about iPhone 4 supported?video formats you may need to know:

Video formats supported:
H.264 video up to 720p, 30 frames per second, Main Profile level 3.1 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 per channel, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats;

Motion JPEG (M-JPEG) up to 35 Mbps, 1280 by 720 pixels, 30 frames per second, audio in ulaw, PCM stereo audio in .avi file format.

HOW-TO:
Step 1: Free download iPhone 4 Converter, install and run it
Once you run this program, click “Add Video” to load?common video files like AVI, MKV, FLV, WMV, MTS/M2TS, TiVo, etc. to convert, and?click “Load DVD” to import Blu-ray or DVD movie files to rip.

Step?2: Select an output format for iPhone 4
Click on the drop down list of “Format”, and then tap on “iPhone Video”, after that all the specialized iPhone formats will pop up, including MPEG-4 480X320,H.264 480×320, MPEG-4 640×480, H.264 640×480, etc. You are free to choose anyone of them for your iPhone 4G.

Step 3: Set optimal?settings
Click “Settings” button, then the following window will?show up,and all the parameters on it are changeable,like codec name, aspect?ratio,bit rate, frame rate,sample rate, and audio channels.If you are not?satisfied with the default settings, you can adjust them according to your own?requirements.For instance,if you don’t want to use 480×320, then you can choose other size,if the optional options are out of your needs (for example?720p),you can select “custom” to type in your needed one to the textbox of “Size (pix)”.

Or if you are not professional in optimizing audio and?video parameters,you can totally skip this step,because the default settings?will give you an acceptable playback quality for your iPhone 4.

Step 4: Start converting Blu-rays, DVDs, videos to iPhone 4 supported file format
As soon as the above mentioned steps are completed,you?can click the big button “Convert” to start ripping Blu-rays, DVDs,and videos?to iPhone 4G supported file format.This iPhone 4G?Converter will guarantee you a video and audio in sync file quality,so you?never need worry about this issue. Once finished,click “Open” button to get?the output final MP4 files for your iPhone 4G.What you should do next is just syncing videos?to your iPhone with iTunes for entertainment.Hope this helps.

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Visit Apple’s QuickTime official site, you will find that all the file formats supported by QuickTime (the free version) are stated clearly as below:

Audio formats:
iTunes Audio (.m4a, .m4b, .m4p), MP3, Core Audio (.caf), AIFF, AU, SD2, WAV, SND, AMR
Video formats:
QuickTime Movie (.mov), MPEG-4 (.mp4, .m4v), MPEG-1, 3GPP, 3GPP2, AVI, DV
Also, QuickTime can play movies using the following codecs:
Audio Codecs:
AAC (MPEG-4 Audio), HE-AAC, Apple Lossless, MP3, AMR Narrowband, MS ADPCM, QDesign Music 2, Qualcomm PureVoice (QCELP), IMA 4:1, MACE 3:1, MACE 6:1, ALaw 2:1, ULaw 2:1, 24-Bit Integer, 32-Bit Integer, 32-Bit Floating Point, 64-Bit Floating Point
Video Codecs:
MPEG-4 (Part 2), H.264, H.263, H.261, Apple ProRes, Apple Pixlet, Animation, Cinepak, Component Video, DV, DVC Pro, Graphics, Motion JPEG, Photo JPEG,
Sorenson Video 2, Sorenson Video 3

It is obviously that the Blu-ray .m2ts streams are not included. Even though you purchase QuickTime MPEG-2 Playback Component from online Apple Store to install it on your Mac, it is still unable to play commercial DVDs, not to mention the much more strictly protected Blu-ray Avatar, which adopts the new BD+ encryption. Then you may ask “Is there any solution to playback BD Avatar in QuickTime?” Yes, there is. Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripper for Mac is such a tool. With full Blu-ray disc support, it is able to remove copyright protections of your BD disc, no matter BD+, or AACS, even the latest MKB V17 is supported as well. Now it is even capable of successfully decrypting Avatar Blu-ray movies released in North America. Please feel free to read on this step-by-step tutorial to get what you are looking for.

Step 1: Free download, install and launch this Mac blue ray ripper.
Once you run it, click “BD/DVD Folder” or “IFO File” to load your Blu-ray Avatar files.

Step 2: Select H.264 Video (*.mp4) as output format for QuickTime
Follow “Common Video” > “H.264 Video (*.mp4)”

Step 3: Click “Settings” button to adjust video and audio parameters
Notice that which parameter to select has close relationship with the hardware configurations of your computer, so before your adjustment, read the following info attentively.
To play HD video, a large amount of data must be processed by your computer. A powerful system will deliver the best playback quality.

Recommended hardware configurations for H.264 HD playback on Macintosh:

For 1280×720 (720p) video at 24-30 frames per second:
1. 1.8 GHz PowerMac G5 or 1.83 GHz Intel Core Duo or faster Macintosh computer
2. At least 256MB of RAM
3. 64 MB or greater video card

For 1920×1080 (1080p) video at 24 frames per second:
1. Dual 2.0 GHz PowerMac G5 or 2.0 GHz Intel Core Duo or faster Macintosh computer
2. At least 512MB of RAM
3. 128MB or greater video card

Now you are ready to set advanced settings according to the hardware configurations of your computer. Our computer satisfies the above mentioned “1280×720 (720p) video at 24-30 frames per second”,so we changed the settings as below:

Step 4: Click “Convert” button to start ripping Blu-ray Avatar on Mac.
Once the ripping task is finished, you can click “Open” button to get the output H.264 .mp4 Avatar videos for your QuickTime Player effortlessly. Have fun.

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“I can’t believe I’m one of the guys who will watch the final and the opening game. I’m so happy now it’s not really possible to explain in words,” said by a South African fan. Indeed, it would be more than great to experience this wonderful tournament in South Africa. Most football fans had spent hours, some overnight and had to endure the scorching morning conditions to queue for tickets. If you are lucky enough getting the chance to cheer for your favorite team at the scene, or being a witness of the final, you should not forget to bring the camera/ camcorder and record the most exciting match. And Pavtube HD Video Converter helps you to edit all the high quality footages and share your recordings easily, no matter they are shot in MTS, MOD, TOD or MOV format, HD or SD mode. In the following guide I would like to share with you the easy procedure of converting HD footages with Pavtube HD Video Converter.

Step One. Getting started
Transfer the footages you’d like to edit from camcorder or memory card to PC. Install and launch HD Video Converter, click “Add” to load the HD video clips, or directly drag and drop the files into file list. By default, the files are selected. You could view the files in preview window, simply highlight the file and click play button.

Step Two. Adjusting audio and video settings
Click “Settings” and customize advanced audio and video parameters. Now that we are converting the football recordings (MTS, MOV, TOD) for edit, you may select a compatible video format with your editing software. Take Adobe Premiere as example, editable formats are WMV, MPG and MOV, so you can click on the format bar and find the row of Adobe Premiere/ Sony Vegas, then elect a desired formats. Here I select WMV (VC-1) as output format (see as below shows). The footage was recorded in Full HD 1920*1080 size, so I select ‘original’ to keep the 1920*1080 resolution, and set Bitrate to 5000kbps, Frame rate to 30fps to maintain best video quality.

There are also various other video and audio formats for different editing software such as Sony Vegas, Avid, Magix Movie Edit Pro, Pinnacle Studio, etc. Just make sure the format you select is compatible with the editing software you use.

Step Three. Converting HD footages to editable formats

Finally, click on “Convert” button to start converting HD footages to editable files for Adobe Premiere. You could set auto shutdown in progress window or leave it there and come back later.
Video converter is the easiest way to get your video in the format you want, convert video and audio to iPod, PSP, iPhone, Zune, Xbox.

After conversion the videos can be easily loaded to Adobe Premiere for editing. To locate the converted files, click the “Open” button next to output path. The converter also allows you to convert the footages to flash videos (*.flv, *.f4v, *.swf) so that you can share the videos with more football fans on Youtbe and other video sharing sites.

Learn more: http://www.pavtube.com/2010-world-cup/

The 3.7-inch, 854×480 screen makes Motorola Droid perfect for watching HD movies, camera footage, TV shows, music videos, and more. Want to make full use of your Droid to watch the hot Blu-ray movie Avatar? Although the BD Avatar has adopted the new BD+ copy protection, with Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripper for Mac, cracking the code is not an unreachable thing any more. Well, the following paragraphs will elaborate the steps of how to use this Mac Bluray ripper to convert BD Avatar for your Motorola Droid.

Step 1: Download, install and launch Pavtube Mac Bluray ripper
Once launched it, you can click “BD/DVD Folder” or “IFO File” to load Blu-ray/DVD files.

Step 2: Select subtitle and audio track
Click drop down list of “Subtitle” and “Audio” to select your needed subtitle and audio track in your BD Avatar respectively. The pull down menu will show you all the info clearly, including language and stream ID of subtitle, language, audio codec, audio ID, and channel of audio. You can choose one according to your own requirement, and the preview window will show you the changes in real time.
Step 3: Select output format for Motorola Droid
Click the drop-down menu of “Format”, and then follow “Common Video”> “H.264 Video (*.mp4)”.

Step 4: Set optimal settings for perfect playback quality on your Droid
Click “Settings” button to optimize video and audio parameters, the optimal settings of Pavtube blue ray ripper mac for Droid are recommended as below:
The best Video and audio settings:
Video codec: H.264 MP4
Size (resolution): 848*480pix
Bit rate: 2500kbps
Frame rate: 24fps
Audio codec: AAC
Sample rate: 48khz
Bit rate: 64kbps/ 96kbps/ 128kbps
Channels: Stereo

The above mentioned settings will guarantee you an excellent playback quality at full screen without frame skipping and any video/audio out of sync issues. If you prefer a smaller file size, just adjust the video bit rate down to 1,500kbps and it will still look fine while watching on your Motorola Droid.

Step 5: Start ripping Blu-ray Avatar for watching on Driod
Once all the above mentioned steps are finished, you can click “Convert” button to start ripping BD Avatar. The final output MP4 files can be found out via clicking “Open” button effortlessly, what you should do next is adding the MP4 files to the SD card and enjoy them freely on Motorola Droid.

Pavtube DVD Ripper for Mac is a professional  application designed for Mac users to decrypt/rip/convert/compress their standard  DVD movies, no matter the home made ones or the commercial ones. In that way,  users can easily watch their beloved movies on their portable devices like PSP,  iPad, iPod, BlackBerry, etc. This tutorial takes PSP for instance, and explains  how to rip general DVD movies to PSP on Mac OS in detail. If it is what you are  searching for, please feel free to read on the following contents.

Step-by-step Guide: How  to convert standard DVD to PSP on Mac OS?

1. Free download this Mac  DVD to PSP Converter, install and run it
Once you run it, click “DVD Folder” to load your DVD movie  from the DVD-Rom, or click “IFO File” to load your DVD files from an IFO image  file.

In general, the biggest file would be the main movie, if  you don’t want to convert extra parts of the movie, tick off this one would be  OK. To make your selection conveniently, you can right click on a movie title  to “Check all” or “Uncheck all”.

2. Select an output  format for PSP
Click on the pull down menu of “Format”, and then tap on “PSP/PS3″ preset, afterwards, you will see multiple  PSP profiles showing up. Which format to choose is depending on your own  requirements. Here I select “PSP – PSP MPEG-4 Video Excellent Quality (*.mp4)”  as an example.

3. Set advanced settings
Click “Settings” button, then you will enter the following  interface, on which you are allowed to adjust video and audio parameters  including codec, aspect ratio, bit rate, frame rate, sample rate, and audio  channels. Actually, the default settings of “PSP – PSP MPEG-4 Video Excellent  Quality (*.mp4)” will output acceptable full screen files for your PSP, so if  you are not good at changing audio and video parameters, you’d better use the  default settings. An inappropriate adjustment may cause the final files  unplayable on your PSP.

4. Start ripping DVD to  PSP
Click “Settings” button to start converting DVDs to PSP  video. This Mac DVD to PSP  Converter will finish the ripping task at super high speed without any  audio and video out of sync issues. After finished, you can hit “Open” button  to get the output DVD files for your PSP effortlessly. Add the files to your  PSP, and now you are free to watch your DVDs on PSP whenever and wherever. Hope  this helps.

See more info about Windows DVD to PSP Converter.

You may have the need to do some editing on your DVD movie and convert them with the customized editing to AVI, MPEG, WMV and 3GP video. This will be very interesting, since you are creating kind of new movie all by yourself.

To edit the DVD video, you need to find a DVD decrypting application, or DVD ripping software which provides editing options as much as possible. I am using Pavtube DVD Ripper, so, today, I just take this popular DVD Ripper for example.

First, you need to import the DVD movies to the DVD ripping software.

Second, select the titles you would like to do editing and if you don’t know much about the movie you import, click the preview button to make sure that you are editing the right titles or chapters. And the hit the button of “Edit” to adjust the effect, trim or crop the videos.

Third, now let’s start the editing. Pavtube DVD Ripper offers three main editing sections, effect setting, trimming and cropping. Best DVD to iPhone Converter is a multifunctional tool, which does not only convert DVD to iPhone formats but also edit the output.
Effect Setting: Options are contrast, brightness for video and volume for audio.

Drag the slider bar for Brightness, Contrast, and Volume to preview the effect on the right column.
If the DVD image does not display correctly, you can tick the checkbox for “Flip” to fix it.
Remember to hit “Apply”. Hit “Apply to Child Chapters” if the file you select is a title, or “Apply to All” if the file you select is a chapter. Otherwise, you may click the “Reset” button to gain the default settings.
Trim: This is intended for users to define the beginning time as well as ending time. You can trim the section you want through either defining a specific time or an ending time or drag the side bars at the two ends to clip the movie section. The later is much more convenient. Keep in mind that you must hit the button of “Apply” and “OK” or you have spend all the time in vain.

Crop: This is intended for users to crop the image.
Select an option under the drop down list of the “Letter Box”, drag the dashed frame on the preview pane, or enter value on the boxes for the four positions to set the pixels you want to cut off. If the file you select to customize is a title, you can tick the checkbox for “Apply to Child Chapters” to get other files with the same settings under the “Crop” tab.

As this guide shows, you can tick several items on the major interface and apply the settings one by one, and in this way, you keep different settings for different titles or chapters, for example, you may have trim first 3 minutes of the Title1_2, the last 30 seconds of the Title1-3 etc.

To combine the sections you have selected and edited, all you need to do is to tick the checkbox of “Merge into one file” next to the format selecting box.

And finally, you will get the videos consisting of your favorite parts and with your preferred settings. Hope you could enjoy the popular DVD Ripper program! Oh,yeah!

It’s a good choice to watch your favorite Blu-ray movies  on portable PSP while traveling on public vehicle. In order to make BD movies  playable on PSP, one thing is inevitable, that is using a practical Blu-ray  Ripper to remove BD copy protections and convert the movie to PSP supported  file format. In purpose of solving this problem, this guide will provide  Blu-ray movie and PSP lovers with a solution on how to rip Blu-ray movies to  PSP playable format in detail with Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripper for Mac.  If you are looking for such a solution right now, just read on the following  contents to see whether it is helpful or not.

Here we go.

Guide: how to rip Blu-ray  movies to PSP playable format on Mac?

Step 1: Run Mac Blu-ray  to PSP Converter and add BD files to it
Once you launch this program, click “BD/DVD Folder” to load  your Blu-ray movie files.

Step 2: Select an output  format for PSP
Click the drop down list of “Format”, and then hit “PSP”  preset, after that, you will see there are dozens of formats optimized for PSP,  just select one to satisfy your requirements at will. To keep a higher quality,  you can choose “PSP – PSP MPEG-4 Video Excellent Quality (*.mp4)”, to minimize  the final file size, you can select “PSP – PSP MPEG-4 Video minimal Size  (*.mp4)”. Here I chose “PSP – PSP MPEG-4 Video Excellent Quality (*.mp4)” for  instance:

Step 3: Adjust audio and  video settings
Click “Settings” button, then you will see a popup window  as below. All the A/V parameters shown on it is changeable, including codec  name, bit rate, frame rate, size, sample rate and audio channels. The default  settings of “PSP – PSP MPEG-4 Video Excellent Quality (*.mp4)” will guarantee output  an acceptable full screen playback quality on your PSP, so if you are not  professional in adjusting A/V settings, you’d better not to change the default  settings, otherwise you may get a final file that is unplayable on your PSP.

Step 4: Start ripping  Blu-ray movies to PSP supported format
Once the above mentioned steps are done, you can click the  big button “Convert” to start converting BD movies to PSP workable file format.  This Mac Blu-ray to PSP  Converter will ensure you an audio and video in sync file quality for your  PSP. Once finished, you can get the result Blu-ray movie files for your PSP by  clicking on “Open” button with ease.

Note:
If you don’t want to wait around for the whole ripping process,  then before clicking “Convert”, you can click “Option” button at the top right of  the main interface to tick off “Shut down the computer after conversion”. In  that case, you can go out for a walk or have a cup of tea, or do something else  as you like while the ripping task is running.

More features of this Mac blu-ray ripper
1. Capable of removing different copy  protections of commercial DVDs and BD discs, including CSS, AACS, BD+ and the  new released MKB V17.

2. Capability of recognizing almost  all subtitles and audio tracks, including Dolby TureHD Audio and DTS-HD Master  Audio.

3. Support “Full Disk Copy” to remain  the original Blu-ray and DVD file structure.

4. Support 5.1 surround sound output.

5. Support output multiple file  formats to satisfy your different end uses.

6. Cut black bars and specify certain  scenes to convert.

To see more detailed user guide of Blu-ray to  PSP Converter for Mac.

Ever since the release of iPad, the new ‘big guy’ has been the hottest product. Screen of iPad is so good, multi-touch is amazing and colors are so vibrant that working on boring tasks also becomes enjoyable. According to Apple, iPad gives up to 10 hours of surfing the web on Wi-Fi, watching video, or listening to music. By any means, it is a great portable video player. So why not transfer you TiVo recordings to iPad? No matter where you are, whenever it is, just take out the iPad from your handbag and enjoy your favorite TV programs or football matches freely! Nice idea, isn’t it? In the following guide I would like to share with you how to get your TiVo recordings ready for iPad (iPad Wi-Fi +3G).

In order to enjoy TiVo recordings on iPad, you get to transfer TiVo to your PC and then convert the TiVo files to iPad compatible formats.

1. Transfer TiVo recordings to PC (or laptop)

Transferring TiVo recordings to PC is easy and straight-forward. All you need is a freeware by TiVo— the TiVo Desktop (download the latest version v2.8). Connect the TiVo box with your home network, and run TiVo Desktop. Click on “Pick Recordings to Transfer”. Check the box next to the title of the show (or shows) you want to transfer and click on “Start Transfer”. Transfer times vary, but may be as long as the show’s duration to complete the transfer.

2. Convert TiVo recordings to to iPad compatible formats.

There are too many converting tools on market, yet few do convert TiVo files. A recommended one is Pavtube Video Converter, which converts TiVo files as well as HD footages, Flash videos, Matroska container format, tec.

Before converting TiVo files, let’s take a look at the iPad-supported video formats:

H.264 video up to 720p, 30 frames per second, Main Profile level 3.1 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, and .mov file formats;

Motion JPEG (M-JPEG) up to 35 Mbps, 1280 by 720 pixels, 30 frames per second, audio in ulaw, PCM stereo audio in .avi file format

Now please refer to the converting procedures below:

Step 1. Input Media Access Key.

Launch Pavtube Video Converter, Click on the “Option” button, switch to TiVo tab, and enter your Media Access Key. Click “OK” to confirm.

Step 2: Import TiVo files.

Now click “Add” to import all .tivo files, or you may drag and drop the *.tivo files to the window of Pavtube Video Converter.

Step 2: Select an output format for iPad, iPad 3G, or iPad Wi-Fi+3G

Click on the pull down menu of “Format” and then tap “iPad”, after that, you will see three options optimized for iPad showing as below, including “iPad HD Video (*.mp4)”, “iPad Video H.264 (*.MP4)”, “iPad Video MPEG-4 (*.mp4)”. You can select any one of them according to your own needs.

Step 3: Click “Settings” button to adjust audio and video parameters

You are allowed to adjust codec, aspect ratio, bit rate, frame rate, sample rate and audio channel in the popup window to optimize the output file quality. Following are the recommended settings to get best playback quality.

Step 4: Click “Convert” button to start conversion.

Once finished, you can get the output files for your iPad via clicking on “Open” button effortlessly. Afterwards, connect your iPad to your PC, and then sync the videos to iPad via iTunes.

If you are using Mac, please refer to Converting TiVo to iPad on Mac.

So you just have a BD-ROM drive  but without Blu-ray playing program like Power DVD9 installed on your PC? Actually,  you needn’t waste money on this costly BD playing software anymore, the free  media players like VLC, Media Player Classic Homecinema, etc. are able to play  your Blu-ray movie successfully after converting Blu-ray to MKV. This  tutorial will show you how to rip Blu-ray to MKV in detail, please feel free to  find a step-by-step direction.

How-to:
Step 1: Use Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripper to load Blu-ray  files
Three ways are available to load Blu-ray movie – “BD/DVD  ROM”, “BD/DVD Folder” and “IFO/ISO”.

Step 2: Select MKV as  output format
Strike the pull down menu at the end of “Format”, and then  you will see there are multiple format presets. To select a SD MKV format, you  can follow “Common Video” > “MKV (Matroska) Video (*.mkv)”:

To convert  Blu-ray to MKV in HD quality, you can follow “HD Video” >”MKV HD Video  (*.mkv)”:

Step 3: Click “Settings”  button to customize video and audio parameters
All the parameters on the popup window are changeable,  including codec, aspect ratio, bitrate, frame rate, sample rate, and audio  channels. You are free to adjust them. Generally speaking, the higher input  figures will output the better file quality, but accompanying with larger file  size; the smaller figures will export the smaller file size, but with inferior  file quality, that means you should make a good balance between the two  factors. If you are not experienced in it, the default settings are your better  choice.

Step 4: Start ripping Blu-ray to MKV

As soon as the above mentioned steps are finished, you can  click “Convert” button to start ripping Blu-ray to MKV. After the conversion is  done, you can click “Open” button to get the output MKV files with great ease. Hope  this helps.

Tips:
1. This Blu-ray converter is capable of working with most  Blu-ray discs, including AACS and BD+ protected ones, even the new MKB V17 is  supported as well.

2. Guarantee audio and video in sync.

3. Users are free to select their needed subtitle and  audio track (the popular Dolby TureHD Audio and DTS-HD Master Audio are  supported) to convert.

4. You can use the “Trim” function to select certain Blu-ray  clips to rip. And you can also take advantage of the “Crop” function to remove  black edges or change the screen size.

5. Specific effect models are provided, such as “Simple  gauss blur”, “Simple laplacian sharpen”, “Aged film”, “Flip color”, and  ”Invert”.

6. Besides adding text as watermark, images, GIF  animations, and videos can also be added as watermarks to realize the  picture-in-picture effect.

See the detailed manual of How to use Pavtube  Blu-ray Ripper.

If you are Mac fan, Sony Handycam is not a best choice when choosing a camcorder for purchase. Basically, the HD camcorders shoot footages in AVC/ H.264 MTS format, which is not editable in most non-linear editing software. Although the latest version of Sony Vegas (published by Sony) is capable of editing MTS format, it is only designed to run on Windows Platform. Mac users have to figure out another way to settle it down. Videographers would see FCP or FCS as useful tool for audio and video editing, for amateurs who prefer to do some simple editing to their HD footages, FCE (Final Cut Express) is a better choice. This guide is written for Mac users that meet difficulties in importing Sony HDR-SR MTS footages to FCE. Why should the MTS files can not be loaded in FCE while Apple made it clearly that the Final Cut Express 4 work with AVCHD files? Surely FCE4 handles AVCHD footages shot in 1280*720 and 1440*1080. So when your footages are shot in 1920*1080, you need to convert the MTS to editable format for FCE. Hope the following guide helps.

Download the trail version of Pavtube MTS/ M2TS Converter for Mac from here if you would like to give it a shoot. The trial version converts videos with watermark on the screen and you are not advised to test with smaller video files in order to save time.

Step one. Run Pavtube MTS/ M2TS Converter for Mac. Click ‘Add’ button, browse to the AVCHD MTS footages and load them to the converter. You can check the files and take thumbnails in Preview window.

Step two. Select the items to be converted, and click on ‘Format’ bar to specify output format. FCE compatible formats such as MP4, MOV, MPG, DV, AVI can be found in the profile list. For instance, you could follow HD Video-> MOV HD Video (*.mov). Convert MTS/M2TS to Apple TV —- MTS/ M2TS Converter You may have recorded something meaningful or funny by camcorders and want to play on Apple TV.

Step three. Click the ‘Settings’ button and set proper video/ audio parameters. My advice is to set the video size, bitrate and fame rate to be exactly as the footages so that you will suffer least quality degradation. For example, when the video is shot at 1920*1080, 5mbps, 30fps, you could set Size-1920*1080, Bitrate-original, Frame rate-30. If you would like to use default settings, simply skip this step.

Step four. Click the ‘Browse’ button next to the Export to field and select a location on your HDD for the output video file.

Step five. Click the ‘Convert’ button to start converting MTS files for FCE.

After conversion you can click the ‘Open’ button to locate converted video files, and edit the video footages for playback on DVD-Video players connected to your TV, as well as on Mac.