I wanna make an animate music video, but my Windows Movie Maker only accepts a few types of video files, it is bad that my source file MKV is out of the supported range. This is a troublesome problem, I just want to know if there is an easy way to convert my MKV files to AVI so I can import and use them and not have to re-download the entire anime. After searching online and reading some software reviews, and trying out a large number of video converters, I end up with one called Pavtube MKV Converter, which is user friendly, reliable and stable. Best of all, it is able to ensure HD output and audio/video in sync. Share it here, hope this helps.

My MKV is in HD quality, so my requirement is keeping HD as well, following is my process of using this MKV Converter to realize my goal. Definitely simple steps:

1. Click “Add” button to import MKV files into this program

2. Click the drop-down list of “Format” to select AVI as output format for Windows Movie Maker

To keep HD quality, I selected “AVI HD Video (*.avi)” as output format.

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

This program allows users to customize audio and video parameters. Codec, aspect ratio, bit rate, frame rate, sample rate, and audio channel are all changeable in the following window.

4. Click “Convert” button to start converting MKV to AVI

As long as the conversion is finished, you can get the output files via clicking on “Open” button, and WMM will recognize them without trouble.

I have some MKV anime files that I want to play them on my Xbox 360, but every time I try, my console does not work at all. Then a friend of mine told me to convert them to WMV with a video converter called Pavtube MKV Converter, I tried the trial version, and asked their support team what are the best settings for my Xbox 360, they gave my following suggestions:

Xbox 360 supports the following for WMV:

Video Profiles: WMV7 (WMV1), WMV8 (WMV2), WMV9 (WMV3), VC-1 (WVC1 or WMVA) in simple, main, and advanced up to Level 3

Video Bitrate: 15 Mbps with resolutions of 1920 x 1080 at 30fps.

Audio Profiles: WMA7/8, WMA 9 Pro (stereo and 5.1), WMA lossless

Audio Max Bitrate: No restrictions.

I followed these settings, and the output files actually worked on my console, and the trial version just has Pavtube logo stands in the center of the image. I think it is well worth buying. I would like to share its detailed operating steps here, hope it will be of some help for you guys who are having headaches about this issue.

Following is its intuitive UI, and only within several steps the conversion will be finished flawlessly.

Step 1: Click “Add” button to load MKV files

Step 2: Click the pull down menu of “Format” to select output format for Xbox 360

Step 3: Click “Settings” button to set optimal settings

I just do the settings as their support team suggested:

Size: 1920*1080

Video bit rate: 1500kbs

Frame rate: 30 fps

Others I use the defaults

Step 4: Click “Convert” button to start conversion

This converter not only has fast conversion speed, but also lets audio and videos match very well. I’m satisfied with it.

Step 5: Click “Open” button to get the output WMV files

Once conversion is completed, you can get the converted WMV files for your Xbox 360 via hitting “Open” button with ease.

An easy and reliable application, hope it helps.

Even though it is announced that Corel Ulead DVD MovieFactory 6 Plus software has added

AVCHD camcorder support and users can import and edit high definition footage from AVCHD camcorder discs, and convert to standard definition formats, but I still met troubles while importing the HD .m2ts files captured by means of a HD Sony Handycam type HDR-CX11E (PAL), I guess it is not as powerful as it claims.

I have to look around for a practical and affordable program to help me out. My only objective is to convert these .m2ts files to .avi files, so that I can edit them with Corel Ulead DVD MovieFactory 6 Plus, and burn them into a SD DVD for playback on the DVD player connected to my TV, as well as computer DVD Player software on computers. Fortunately, I came across Pavtube HD Video Converter, it is easy to use and helpful, I finally successfully converted .m2ts files to .avi format, and the output files are in good quality, without any problems while editing in MovieFactory 6 Plus. It is my pleasure to share this HD Video Converter here. Following is the detailed steps, absolutely easy enough:

1. Click “Add” button to load .m2ts files to this application

2. Select AVI as output format and specify destination folder

Click the drop-down menu of “Format” to select AVI format for Corel Ulead DVD MovieFactory 6 Plus. Meanwhile click the folder icon at the end of “Output” to specify where to locate the output AVI files. By the way, if you wanna combine multiple .m2ts files into a single file, you can tick the checkbox “Merge into one file”.

There are “Common Video” and “HD Video”, both have AVI options, you can choose one according to your own needs.

Common AVI:

HD AVI:

3. Set advanced settings

Click “Settings” button, then the following window will enables you to adjust all video and audio parameters on it, including codec, aspect ratio, bit rate, frame rate, sample rate, and audio channel. That means you can customize the settings in your own ways.

4. Click “Convert” button to start conversion

Once finished, you can get the output AVI files via clicking on “Open” button. After that, Corel Ulead DVD MovieFactory 6 Plus will be able to recognize these files. You can now edit the files and author them to a new DVD.

If you have tons of .m2ts streams from your Blu-ray discs, which are copyright protections removed, and want to convert them to other video formats and keep TrueHD audio or DTS-HD Mater Audio of the original files, and then what’s your idea to realize this goal? Actually, I know some of you do not have any idea about this, because it’s not an easy thing to get a program to recognize the two special soundtracks at all.

Fortunately, Pavtube Studio has upgraded its MTS/M2TS Converter recently, which has added supportS to both Dolby TrueHD audio and DTS-HD Master Audio, is able to convert M2TS files to whatever formats you need, such as MP4 format supported by iPod, iPhone, PSP, PS3, Apple TV, Gphone, Blackberry, etc., 3GP format supported by most cell phones, FLV format which is suitable for online transferring, MPEG-4 format which is workable for importing to iMovie and Final Cut, and many other video formats like AVI, MPG, MOV, MKV, VOB and so on.

The following part will take reserving Dolby TrueHD audio for instance, and will show you how to keep your wanted audio track while doing format conversion.

A step-by-step instruction will be starting in the following part, which will take reserving Dolby TrueHD audio for instance. If you want to follow this guide to have a try, you can download Pavtube MTS/M2TS Converter here.

Step 1: Click “Add” button to load .m2ts streams

Step 2: Click “Properties” to select TrueHD audio

Click the drop-down list of “Stream ID”, and there are several options, select each one to see which one is TrueHD audio, if it is, “truehd” will pop up in the textbox of “Format”, just like the following window showing. Do remember clicking “OK” button to save your selections.

Step 3: Select output format and specify save path

Click the drop-down list of “Format” to select your wanted output format, and click the folder icon at the opposite side of “Output” to specify where to locate the output file. Moreover, if you have the needs of combining multiple .m2ts files into a single file, you can tick the checkbox “Merge into one file”.

Step 4: Set advanced settings

Click “Settings” button, and you are allowed to adjust audio and video parameters like codec, bit rate, frame rate, sample rate, and audio channel in the following interface, to reserve TureHD audio to the full extent, you should set soundtrack as 5.1 channels.

Step 5: Click “Convert” button to start conversion

More related features of Pavtube MTS/M2TS Converter

1. Fast conversion, excellent output quality, and perfect audio and video synchronization.

2. Convert, compress and edit videos from Blu-ray DVDs or HD camcorders.

3. Trim, crop, add special effects and different watermarks

4. Support VFW codec encoding and 5.1 channel audio output.

5. Enjoy the output videos online, on portable devices, or backup on computer.

People’s demands for video quality continuously follow up with the development of multimedia technology. Hence, HD video is born. Nowadays, we can get HD videos from various ways, like downloading online, recording by HD camcorders, coming from HD or Blu-ray DVDs, etc. Additionally, more and more people are willing to make efforts to edit their on-hand HD videos, therefore, this guide, with the intention of offering help to these people ,will introduce you how to add special effects to your HD videos on Mac via Pavtube HD Video Converter for Mac step by step.

1. Download, install and run Pavtube HD Vidoe Converter for Mac.

2. Add your HD video files to this program, then click icon “Editor”.

3. Press tag “Effect” to adjust common effect parameters as well as add special effects.

3.1 Adjust common effect parameters and Deinterlacing
As soon as you click the “Effect” button, the following interface will show up, you can adjust the common effect parameters like Brightness, Contrast, and Saturation by dragging the slider bars. If there are stripes on your original HD videos, you can hit the checkbox “Deinterlacing” to fix it.

Apart from changing the common parameters of effect, now I will show you how to add special effects to your files. Follow me, please. Just click the drop-down list of “Effect“, which is between Saturation and Deinterlacing. Afterwards, you will see there are seven options as below interface showing:

Select whatever special effect you need, and if you want to change your former settings, just click “Reset“. As long as you have chosen a satisfactory effect, click “OK“, the settings will be saved, otherwise press “Cancel” to abandon it. Well, next, I will reveal you all the special effects one by one; meanwhile, you can consider which one is that you need right now.

3.2 Simple gauss blur
This function can remove the video noises, so that your video quality will be improved a lot. So long as you have this problem, you can use it. If not, you may just skip it.

3.3 Simple laplacian sharpen
This function enables the video files to have sharpened edges; in that case, the resulted videos will be much more different from the normal ones.

3.4 Gray
Look at the following picture, the difference between original previewand output preview has obviously presented the effect of “gray“. From the literal meaning of it, we can also know that it shadows the bright color of the original files, and achieves a deep gray effect.

3.5 Aged film
I put this function here, because it is a little same with the above mentioned “gray”, can’t you see it? The visual difference lies in that “aged film” is fulfilled with the color of old yellow, while the above one is filled with gray. You can use this effect to make your videos look like old films produced many years ago.

3.6 Flip color
Primary color red and blue are reversed by this function, and the generated video image seems much bluer than before.

3.7 Invert
Like “flip color“, “invert” also realizes its special effect by reversing conflicting colors, such as black and white. This effect really brings us great visual impact. Don’t you think it looks like the scenes appeared in some horror movies? Ha-ha!

4. Convert
When you have finished adding special effects to your HD videos, you can click “Convert” to continue your conversion job. A video file with built-in special effects is really wonderful. Don’t you think so?

Feel headache to deal with tons of MKV files downloaded from the network on your Mac OS? Congratulations, you are lucky enough to be here, since this thread here will focus on this point and tell you how to convert MKV files to other video formats like AVI, MOV, MP4, etc. on Mac, even the newly released Snow Leopard is supported. I believe some of you are searching solutions to this problem, in that case, just feel free to get whatever you need from this post with ease. The program we will use is called Pavtube MKV Converter for Mac, and now let’s have a look at the step-by-step instruction of it together.

Step 1: Download, install and launch Pavtube MKV Converter for Mac.

See, the following window is its friendly main interface, you can click “Add” button to load MKV files which you want to convert into this program.

Step 2: Choose output format and set destination folder

As soon as MKV files are input, now click on the drop-down list of “Format” to select an output format according to your end use of the output files. For example, import to iPhone or iPod for playback, you can select MP4; add to BlackBerry for entertainment, you can choose WMV or AVI; upload to YouTube for sharing, you can select FLV; load to iMovie for further editing you can choose MOV, etc. What’s more, if you want to join multiple MKV files to be one file, you can check “Merge into one file” to realize it. Imagine you dislike using the path set by default to save the output files, you can specify one by yourself through hitting “Browse” button.

Step 3: Set configurable settings

Pavtube MKV Converter for Mac permits users adjusting video and audio parameters like codec, aspect ratio, bit rate, frame rate, etc., in that case, you can decide the output file size and the video quality. In principle, the larger input values will generate better quality, but accompanying with larger file size; on the contrary, the smaller input values will produce smaller file size, but in accordance with more inferior file quality. Due to this, you’d better make a balance between the output file size and the output file quality. If you are not good at configuration, you can totally skip this step.

Step 4: Convert

As long as the above mentioned steps are all finished, what you should do next is just pressing “Convert” button to begin conversion. After done, click on the “Open” button, and then you will find out the output files easily.

With the development of video recording technologies, more and more people are willing to record their daily lives with camcorders to keep memories, such as wedding parties, birthday parties, babies’ growth, or whatever else they thought deserved recording. Sometimes recording is simple, while handling the generated videos is complicated. Because the video files produced by camcorders usually can not be recognized by most playing or editing software on Mac directly, MOD is one of the formats among them. If you have a JVC, Canon, or Panasonic camcorder, you have probably seen this format before. Next I am going to share some of my knowledge about MOD format and how to convert MOD to other video and audio formats for further enjoyment.

Part 1: About MOD
MOD is the informal name of tapeless video format used by JVC, Panasonic, and Canon in some models of camcorders, such as JVC GZ-MG130, GZ-MS100U, GZ-MG255, Panasonic SDR-SW20, SDR-SW21, SDR-S26, Canon FS100, FS200, FS21 and so on. It is used exclusively for standard definition video files, and has never been given to a meaning explanation or official name by JVC or Panasonic, the pioneers of it.

Part 2: How to convert MOD generated by JVC Cannon Camcorder to MP4, 3GP, AVI, FLV, MOV, etc.?
When you meet the MOD video files, what will you do firstly? I think to find out a useful MOD converter for Mac at first is really essential. You should convert them to some common video formats previously, and after that, video playing or editing can only be done without troubles. Pavtube MOD Converter for Mac is such a kind of converter. Now, let’s go through the step-by-step instruction of it together.

Step 1: Download, install and run this program

Step 2: Add video files, select formats, and set destination folder
Press “Add” button to input your MOD files to this program, and then click “Format” button to select your resulted video formats, like MP4, 3GP, AVI, FLV, MOV, etc. You can also use the default exported folder or set it by yourself through clicking “Browse”. Meanwhile, you are also allowed to set output settings by click “Settings”.

Step 3: Start converting
Click“Convert” button at the right bottom of the main interface to start converting.
Once you have finished these editing and converting jobs, you can deal with the resulted videos with ease: Export MP4 or MOV files to iMovie to do further editing, or export 3GP files to your cell phone for playback, or export AVI or MPEG files to PPT to vivify your presentation, or export MP4 files to play on your iPod or iPhone, or export FLV files to upload to video websites to share with others, all in all, you can do whatever you like with them.

Tips:
Factually, I’m using this product now and like it very much. Because its after-sales service is really perfect. As soon as I’ve purchased it, their customer service staff Vivian sent me a greeting email kindly, and asked me if I have some problems while using it. She has definitely done me some favors in the use of their product. This makes me feel that I am important, and they are prepared to help me anytime and anywhere. Yes, that’s how it goes.

What’s more, this product has several outstanding functions as below, which can absolutely bring you joyful experiences.

1. Pavtube MOD Converter for Mac does not have the audio-video out of sync problem.

2. It has pretty fast converting speed; even batch conversion can be completed in a few minutes.

3. With exception of adding text as watermark, images, GIF animations, and videos can also be added as watermarks to realize the picture-in-picture effect.

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

5. You can merge multiple video files into one file, as well as replace the original audio with your specified audio.

Hope you could enjoy it. ^_^

I have often seen people asking questions like I have a Sony HDR-SR5, or some other AVCHD camcorders such as Canon HF11, JVC GZ-HD10, Panasonic HDC-SD5, etc, but I failed to import the video files copied from my camcorder in the format of .mts or .m2ts for playback on my iPod, iPhone, or some other common used mobile players, is there anyone can give me some suggestions? Question like this seems endless, for there are always people keeping asking these similar questions without an end. This time when I read this question, I couldn’t stop myself giving you people a solution.
Firstly I should tell you that most portable devices can not read .mts or .m2ts files directly, if you want to play them on your mobile devices like iPod, iPhone, etc. without trouble, you have to convert them into their acceptable format like MP4 previously.

This article aims to tell you how to convert MTS or M2TS to iPod, iPhone, etc. compatible formats with Pavtube MTS/M2TS Converter for Mac. If you are an above question asker, please read on the following step-by-step guide at will.
1. Install and run Pavtube MTS/M2TS Converter for Mac
Once you’ve run it, a sky-blue interface will appear as follow:

2. Import MTS or M2TS files to it, as well as set output format and destination folder
Click “Add” to import MTS or M2TS files, and at the same time, you can click the drop-down list of “Format” to select whatever format you need, like MP4 for iPod, iPhone, WMV for Zune player, or some other formats, what you should choose is depending on which format your portable device is supporting. Also, you can click “Browse” to decide where to load the output files. Moreover, if you want to integrate several files to be one single file, you can check “Merge into one file”.

3. Set advanced settings
If you have higher expectations about the resulted file, you can click “Settings” to adjust the parameters of video or audio on the below window. For example, you can set the screen size of the output videos, or change bit rate to adjust the quality or size of the output files.

4. Convert
Click button “Convert”, you will see the following window. It shows you the converting process as well as generated size and estimated size of the converting file, so that you can make sure if there ere enough space on your Mac to save the output files.

Additional tips:
What is MTS/M2TS?

Before talk about MTS/M2TS, AVCHD have to be mentioned at first. AVCHD is a tapeless HD format developed by Sony and Panasonic in May, 2006. AVCHD video is compressed in MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 format, and it supports 720p, 1080i, 1080p, etc. At the same time, AVCHD audio is stored in compressed form Dolby AC-3. Well, what is the relationship between AVCHD and MTS/M2TS? If you are attentive enough, you will find AVCHD is with file extension .mts on camcorder and with .m2ts after import to computer.

To avoid the original Blu-ray and DVD discs being scratched by frequent use, it is a good idea to copy and save them as video folders, or burn them to another blank Blu-ray disc or DVD disc as backups. When it comes to this point, a practical program written for this utility is necessary. In my article here, I’d like to take Pavtube Blu-ray Copy for example to show you how to directly copy or burn Blu-ray and DVD movies via it in detail. If you are looking for such a solution right now, you can feel free to move on with the following paragraphs.

First of all, what can Pavtube Blu-ray Copy do for you?

1. Make perfect 1:1 copies of Blu-ray and DVD movies

2. Support disc to disc, disc to folder, and disc to ISO backup to meet your multiple needs

3. Copy Blu-ray and DVD movies with flawless quality

4. Free you from the annoying protections of Blu-ray and DVD movies

5. Directly burn Blu-ray and DVD movies without other burning software

Okay, now let’s have a look at its simple operating steps.

Step 1: Select Blu-ray or DVD source file

Click the drop-down list of “Source” to select Blu-ray or DVD source file. You can select from BD ROM, DVD ROM, Blu-Ray/DVD Folder, and Image File (*.ISO).

Step 2: Select Target

Click the drop-down list of “Target” to select destination folder, your target can be BD ROM, DVD ROM, Blu-Ray/DVD Folder, or Image File (*.ISO).

Step 3: Entitle Disc Label

If your target is a blank disc, then you can type your wanted disc label into the textbox after “Disc Label”

Step 4: Click “Start” button to begin copying and burning

Additional tips:

The “Options” window will pop up as soon as you press the red circle marked icon at the left. To burn a disc to a blank disc, the program will generate some temporary files previously, and then burn them to the blank disc. The temporary files will be saved in a default folder, if you want to save them in your specified folder, you can click the folder icon at the end of “Work Space” to change. Furthermore, you are allowed to tick “Delete temporary files” and “Shut down computer automatically”, so as to save your storage space and manage your time in a proper way.

Can’t wait sharing the good news to all of you here, an excellent program called Pavtube Blu-ray Video Converter Ultimate has made its debut recently with enhanced and multifunction performance.
Pavtube Blu-ray Video Converter Ultimate is more than just an application. It combines three programs in one: a powerful Blu-ray ripper, an amazing DVD ripper, and a versatile video converter. All that and more make it the best DVD and video dealing software I’ve ever seen.  Best of all, it is absolutely cost-efficient; I only spend $65 USD for it, but have three programs together at a time.

In addition, it has an easy-to-handle interface, only several simple steps, you can finish ripping or converting your Blu-rays, DVDs or video files to many other media formats, including high definition videos and standard definition videos which are workable on almost all the pop portable devices, like iPod, iPhone, PSP, PS3, BlackBerry, Gphone, etc. or other media players or video editors.  Now I’d like to give a brief introduction to the main operating procedures of Pavtube Blu-ray Video Converter Ultimate. First of all, you can import various sorts of video files into it through clicking “Add Video”, and obviously, by clicking “Load DVD” you are able to load no matter Blu-ray disks or general DVDs into this program.

After that you can click the drop-down list of “Format” to select your wanted output format. Moreover, the destination folder is optional as well, you can click the folder icon at the opposite side of “Output” to browse and specify a path to store the output files at will, if not, the program will export the output files to a destination folder set by default automatically. Also, if you want to combine all the files to be as a single file, you can achieve it through ticking the checkbox “Merge into one file”, no matter what formats they are, even Blu-ray files and DVD files are all available.

Furthermore, if you are professional in adjusting video and audio parameters to make good control of the output files, you can click “Settings” button to do it. As long as all the above mentioned procedures are completed, then you just need press “Convert” button to start conversion, and all the output files can be find via clicking “Open” button.

See, done, isn’t it easy enough? Besides the simple usage, the other point I prefer most is that it does not have video and audio out of sync issues, which has surpassed many similar applications in the market. Well, it’s time to have an end now, hope my recommendation is informative. Have a nice day!