Best iPad Video settings

Follow the optimal settings to get excellent playback quality.
Video:
Codec: H.264
Size: 640*480 or 1280*720
Bitrate: 2500kbps
Frame rate: 30fps
Audio:
Codec: aac
Sample rate: 48khz
Bitrate: 160kbps
Channels: Stereo

Pavtube MTS/M2TS Converteris designed for those who have an AVCHD camcorder but unfortunately get stuck in MTS and M2TS video format. It does a good job in converting MTS, M2TS, M2T, TS, TP and TRP to versatile video and autio formats. People who have no way to edit MTS/ M2TS files with Adobe Premiere, Avid, Sony Vegas Cyberlink Power Director, Avid, Magix Movie Edit Pro, Windows Movie Maker, etc can find a best solution by converting them to useable formats such as WMV(VC-1), MOV (AVC) and MPEG2. The output formats covers common audio, SD video, HD video, Flash video, DVD as well as customized formats for Xbox, Apple TV, PS3, WDTV HD Player, iPod, iPhone, iPad, PSP,Zune, Creative Zen, Archos, Nokia etc. All these output formats enable you to playback, edit and upload the footages shot by Sony, Canon, JVC and Panasonic AVCHD Camcorders.

What’s new
- Fixed for the out of sync issue when merging multiple trimmed files together.

- Improved the GUI to be more user-friendly. A checkbox is added for users to check/ uncheck all chapters; the main movie of source disc is marked out; and slider bars are added so as to adjust the position of crop area and text/image/video watermark more conveniently.

- Upgraded the Profile Manger, and improved the profile list to be more friendly, intuitive, and flexible. The software will memorize the profile settings and apply it when it is updated to the later version.

- Added support to iPad, including three more optimized formats.

- Added scale value to Brightness, Contrast and Saturation facility contained in Effect tab.

For Mac user: Mac MTS/M2TS to iPad Converter

Learn more: Best iPad video conversion tools

The tutorial aims to give you a general idea about how to use Pavtube iMedia Converter for Mac before getting started. The iMdedia Converter for Mac is specially designed for Mac users to enjoy the videos, DVD and blu-ray movies on Mac and multiple mobile devices.

Basically, Pavtube iMedia Converter helps you to directly backup DVD and blu-ray movies from disc and folder to hard drive, rip DVD ISO image file to desired video and audio formats, convert HD footages such as MTS (M2TS, M2T), TOD, MOD and MOV files to desired formats for editing and playing back, convert DVR TiVo files to lossless MPEG files and other desired formats, and convert among other common videos such as flash videos, Quicktime videos, CD files, digital video files, Matroska files, etc. and extract audio tracks from the source discs and clips. Besides, the converter features editing facilities such as trimming, cropping, watermarking, flipping, etc.

To learn more information about this app, you may visit iMedia Converter for Mac or download the free trial of iMedia Converter and try it out. Please note that the trial version output video with a watermark on the screen and the Disk Copy option is restricted to use three times only.

Now let’s see how to use the powerful iMedia Converter for Mac.
1. Import source disc/ folder/ file
2. Preview and Snapshoot
3. Back up DVD and blu-ray disc
4. Set Output Settings
5. Edit video clips
I. Trim Video
II. Crop Video
III. Image/ Video Watermark
IV. Text Watermark
V. Set Effect
VI. Replace audio
6. Convert Movie
1. Import source disc/ folder/ file

Accepted sources includes blu-ray disc, blu-ray folder, DVD, DVD folder, DVD ISO image file, and Video clips. For ripping blu-ray disc you need to connect an external BD drive with your Mac. To add video files, please click ‘Add Video’ button and browse to source video files or drag and drop the files in the ‘Getting Started’ area. To load blu-ray disc, DVD, blu-ray folder, DVD folder, please click ‘DVD/ BD Folder’ and browse to the disc or directory. To import DVD image file, please click ‘IFO File’ and browse to the file you’d like to convert.

The file list is composed of five columns: Check box, Name, Duration, Trimmed Length, and Destination File.

Check Box: Click to check/ uncheck all files in the list.
Destination File: The name of the converted file. By default it is same with the original file. If you’d like to specify a different name for output file, double-click it in Destination File column and type in favorable name.  

Common video files are listed for you to organize; the blu-ray or DVD movie shows up as a directory. Expand the directory and you will find all the chapters are in numerical sequence. You can convert the whole disc to movie collection or select single chapter for conversion.  

For blu-ray movie, there are Title Mode and File Mode. By default the files are listed in Title Mode, 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’d like to switch to file mode, please select the blu-ray movie directory and click ‘ViewMode’. And you can check and preview each individual segment. 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). Or simply check the small box in the title bar of the file list to check/ uncheck all.

When a blu-ray or DVD movie is loaded, you can find the Subtitle and Audio option under the file list are activated.  

Subtitle: Click to view available subtitles of selected chapter and set desired subtitle from drop-down list. Note that some chapters have no subtitles at all. And you can specify subtitle of different languages for different chapters.
Audio: Click to view available audio tracks selected chapter and set desired audio from drop-down list.
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Learn more: How to use Pavtube iMedia Converter for Mac?

Best iPad Video settings

Follow the optimal settings to get excellent playback quality.
Video:
Codec: H.264
Size: 640*480 or 1280*720
Bitrate: 2500kbps
Frame rate: 30fps
Audio:
Codec: aac
Sample rate: 48khz
Bitrate: 160kbps
Channels: Stereo

Pavtube Mac MTS/M2TS Converter is specially developed for AVCHD digital camcorder users. It aims to help videographers and amateurs to convert the high definition footages (*.mts, *.m2ts, *.m2t) to be editable in editing software like iMovie, Final Cut Express, Final Cut Pro etc with least quality loss. It also converts the AVCHD files to common video and audio formats, such as MP4, 3GP, 3G2 AVI, MPG. MOV, MKV, AVI, FLV, VOB, SWF, MP3, FLAC, OGG, WAV, AC3, M4A, MP3, WAV etc.

This is a guide to tell how to convert HD video to SD video with Pavtube HD Video Converter.It discusses how to import, set settings, convert and edit HD video to customize your own video.
What’s new
- Added customized output formats for iPad and TiVo Directly Copy in profile list.
- Refined the GUI to be more user-friendly, including addtional scale value to Brightness, Contrast and Saturation and Volume in Edit interface.
- Now apply Deinterlacing facility by default.

For Windows user: MTS/M2TS to iPad Converter

Learn more: http://www.pavtube.com/ipad-ipod-iphone-tools/

Pavtube iMedia Converter for Mac is an all-in-one Mac Blu-ray & DVD ripper and Video Converter. It helps you back up or rip blu-ray disc and DVD (ISO image file included), no matter encrypted or non-encrypted, and convert videos of all popular formats to your hard drive for playing with. iMedia Converter supports conversion for all popular mobile players and devices such as iPod, iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, Xbox, PS3, Zune, Archos, PSP, 3GP, Blackberry, Droid, Nexus One etc. It also converts HD video footages from Cameras and Camcorders to common video and editable HD video format for non-linear editing software like iMovie, Final Cut Express, Final Cut Pro, Avid, Adobe Premiere etc. and extracts audios from blu-ray disc, DVD and video with high conversion speed.

- Enjoy videos and movies from disc, ISO image file, cams, DVRs, web videos freely.
- Easy to use but powerful editing facilities like crop, trim, watermark, flip, etc.
- Outstanding audio video sync technology makes perfect matching for converted files.
- Provides perfect audio solutions and up to 7.1 channels output option.

History
- Date: May 6, 2010 (v1.0) – New release.

System

- 1G Hz or above PowerPC G4/G5 or Intel processor.
- Mac OS X (including Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger ,v10.5 Leopard and v10.6 Snow Leopard ) on iMac, MacBook, Mac Pro, etc.
- 512 MB physical RAM (memory) or more.
- 1024*768 or higher resolution display.
- Optical Drive: DVD-ROM

Home: http://www.pavtube.com
Download: http://download.pavtube.com/imedia-converter-mac/imediaconvertermac_setup.zip
Product link: http://www.pavtube.com/imedia-converter-mac

Key Features

One-step backup for blu-ray and DVD movie
The Disk Copy option allows you to backup the entire Blu-ray disc and DVD to Mac, including video/ audio streams, commentary, menus, titles, ads etc. All you need is one click on ‘Disk Copy’ button.

Special focus on High-definition videos
High-definition videos can be compressed to common video or re-coded into other formats and retain HD quality. What’s more, deinterlacing facility is provided for eliminating the interlacing lines of HD footages taken with camcorders.

Full support for recorded TiVo shows
The app could decrypt *.tivo files, restore them to lossless *.mpg files, trim out commercials and trans-code the *.tivo files to *.vob, *.mpg, *.avi etc for burning.

Convert animated images to video files at ease
With iMovie Converter you will have more fun with animated pictures (GIF image) by converting them to short video files.

Support universal players and devices
By customizing formats and settings, the output video and audio files can be played back well on iPad, iPod, iPhone, GPhone, Blackberry, 3G phone, Nokia, Sony Erickson, Motorola cell phones, Apple TV, PS3, Xbox 360, WD TV Live, Zune, Creative Zen, Archos, PSP, Pocket PC, etc.

Super high converting/ ripping speed
Its advanced coding technology accelerates the conversion speed to great extent. With this iMedia Converter, you can convert videos, DVDs, Blu-Ray discs much faster than other similar tools.

Multi-task operation and batch conversion
The app multitask is based and supports batch conversion, this means you can load in videos, DVD and blu-ray movie and convert/ rip them at one time.

Ability to merge files together and trim out unwanted clips
With ‘Merge into one’ function, video clips, DVD and blu-ray movie can be merged into one file when it is necessary. With ‘Trim’ function, you can easily cut the selected file to any length and get rid of commercials, titles, header, trailer, etc.

Capture still images as you wish
It not only lets you preview the video, but also makes it easy enough for you to take snapshot- simply with one click. You may also change the images to favorable format at specified size.

Advanced audio and video sync technology
The program adopted advanced audio and video sync technology, and has improved audio video synchronization to perfect performace.

Multiple aspect ratios available
iMedia Converter offers more than switching between 16: 9 and 4:3 aspect ratios, it allows you to set the video to desired value to fit for the screen of your devices and meet your special demands.

Various watermarks editing options
The program supports different watermarks including text, image (including GIF), and video watermark.

Auto-shutdown facility
When working with large videos and blu-ray discs, a lot of time is consumed in producing the final video files. iMedia Converter conveniently shuts down your Mac on completion, saving valuable power and time.

Dolby TrueHD, the next-generation lossless compression  technology, is intended primarily for high-definition home-entertainment  equipment such as Blu-ray Disc and HD DVD. The technology provides an excellent  high-definition audio, which is identical with master tapes of a recording  studio, so that giving users a true high-definition entertainment experience.

Since Dolby TrueHD technology delivers unprecedented home  theater experience, so I guess many of you may want to keep Dolby TrueHD audio  while ripping your Blu-ray movies, but actually, most Blu-ray rippers in the  market can not recognize this stunning audio at all, this may be the probable  thing that troubles you a lot. With luck, I found an available Blu-ray  converter via Google by chance, and my pleasure to share its detailed operating  steps here, sincerely hope it will be of some help for you folks who are  feeling headache about this problem.

Software I will use is called Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripper, now  let’s together to see how to retain Dolby TrueHD audio via it during the course  of Blu-ray ripping.  

Step 1: Load Blu-ray movies

There are three ways to import Blu-ray files: “DVD Rom”, “DVD  Folder”, and “IFO/ISO”.

Step 2: Select Dolby  TrueHD audio, output format and set destination folder

Now you just tick off on what you want to copy. Normally  select the .m2ts video stream with the longest playing time, because it is  usually the main movie of the Blu-ray. If in doubt, you can preview the  selected stream in the video pane to the right to check it. You can also tick  several .m2ts files, if you want to copy the extras of the Blu-ray movie. Note  that you can also combine everything into one file via ticking the checkbox  ”Merge into one file”.

Look at the “Audio” option, usually a Blu-ray movie has  several audio tracks, Dolby TrueHD audio is among them. Generally speaking, the  first one should be Dolby TrueHD, or you can play it to check if it is what you  want.

At the same time, you should select output format from the  drop-down list of “Format”, here I choose “MKV HD Video (*.mkv) for instance,  or if you just need copy Blu-ray  movies without any loss, you can select “Copy” and then “Directly Copy”.  After that, click the folder icon at the end of “Output” to specify where to  locate the output files, if not, the program will export the output file to the  default save path automatically, and these files can be easily found via  clicking “Open” button.

Step 3: Adjust video and  audio parameters

Click “Settings” button, and then you can adjust audio and  video parameters like codec, image pixels, bit rate, frame rate, sample rate, and  audio channels, to keep Dolby TrueHD audio to the greatest extent, you should  select 5.1 channels.

Step 4: Start Blu-ray  ripping

Once the above mentioned settings are finished, now just  click “Convert” button to start Blu-ray ripping, the ripping info including  ripping process, ripping time, and generated file size will all be shown  clearly on the following window, and if you do not want to wait around, you can  tick “Shut down computer after conversion”.

iMovie is an useful and powerful tool for Mac users. You can bring video into iMovie from a variety of sources and devices so as to organize, catalog and edit the video, then share your movies with friends and family on the web, Mac or portable devices easily. However, you can not edit all the videos in iMovie. Today you can use a multiple of video devices to shoot video and get even more from web, which are in various formats. Although iMovie works with the emerging generation of video recording devices, there are some formats that are not supported. M4V is one of the few formats that iMovie will not work with. You have to convert M4V files to iMovie compatible format before you can import them to the software. This guide aims to shows how to convert M4V files to be compatible with iMovie. Please find a step-by-step guide below.

In order to convert M4V files, you need a Video Converter for Mac. And I recommend you Pavutbe Video Converter, which not only converts among versatile media formats, but also allows you to set video codec, bit rarte, frame rate, resolution, audio codec, sampling rate, channels, etc. You could download it via this link (for PowerPC please click here).

Step One. Load source files.
Run HD Video Converter for Mac and click on “Add” to import source files, browse to source video folder and click “Choose”. In preview window you could view the video and take snapshots. When the box of Merge into one is checked, all selected videos will be combined together as one output file after conversion.

(Tip: you can click “Edit” button to perform edit functions such as crop, trim, flip, effect, watermark and audio replace. To eliminate interlacing effect, simply check Deinterlacing box under Effect tab.)

Step 2:Set Output format.
Click on “Format” bar when you’d like to specify an output format. As iMovie supports MPEG-2, MPEG-4, AVCHD, DV and QuickTime format, you may select Common Video-> MPEG-2/ MPEG-4.  MOV format is an alternative choice for your preference. If you want to further customize video and audio parameters such as video codec, audio codec, frame rate, bit rate, video size, audio channels etc, please click “Settings” to cofig them. Do not forget to click on “OK” to confirm your settings. In Export to box you could specify destination for the converted file.

Step 3:Start converting M4V to MPEG.
Click on “Convert” button to start Conversion. The converter will generate MPEG file with admirable video quality. After conversion you can edit the converted files in iMovie freely. See how to edit video in iMovie.