Wednesday, May 19, 2010

How to rip DVD movies to iPad/iPad Wi-Fi+3G supported file formats on Mac



Has your heart ever been touched by the good and evil of the humanity unveiled in "Avatar"? Have you ever been moved by the unremitting efforts made by Will Smith in "The Pursuit of Happyness"? Have you ever wept for the extremely beautiful but tragic love in "Titanic"? Have you ever been motivated by the movie dialogues like "A strong man can save himself; a great man can save another" in "The Shawshank Redemption"?

So there are hundreds of movies in your DVD collection, wanna rip the classic ones for playback on your new iPad or iPad Wi-Fi+3G in 720p quality? If so, this article will show you how to convert DVD movies for watching on your iPad with excellent quality. Go to find the details from the following paragraphs.

The software you will need is Pavtube DVD to iPad Converter for Mac.

This program is good at removing commercial DVD copy protections, so you can feel free to load almost all of your DVD movies to it to do format conversion, even the latest released ones. More than that, with advanced audio and video in sync technology, it will guarantee the output files well in sync while playback on your big screens iPad/iPad 3G.

Step 1: Once you run this program, click "DVD Folder" or "IFO File" to load DVD files



All the DVD movie files are checked by default while loading, you can right click on the file to "Uncheck all" or "Check all", so as to select your needed files to convert in an easy way.

Step 2: Select output format for your iPad/iPad 3G
Actually, there are three iPad presets specially optimized for iPad, you can choose anyone of them to satisfy your needs. Every one of them will definitely ensure you a perfect playback quality on your iPad/iPad Wi-Fi+3G.



To see the default video and audio parameters, you can click "Settings" button, and all of these items including codec name, bitrate, aspect ratio, frame rate, sample rate, and audio channels will be clearly presented as below. If you are professional at changing these items, you can adjust them to meet your higher expectation, otherwise, just let them be. Because they are good enough to output a nice quality file for your iPad. User Interface Flash Tool Tip Components Classic Tooltip.



If you still want to try your luck, please follow iPad supported file formats to do your changes.

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

    iPad Supported Audio Formats
  • Frequency response: 20Hz to 20,000Hz
  • Audio formats supported:HE-AAC (V1), AAC (16 to 320 Kbps), Protected AAC (from iTunes Store), MP3 (16 to 320 Kbps), MP3 VBR, Audible (formats 2, 3, and 4), Apple Lossless, AIFF, and WAV

    Step 3: Click "Convert" button to start ripping DVDs to iPad/iPad 3G video
    Just take a few seconds to do selection, and after that, you can sit back and relax, the entire DVD ripping task will be finished by this iPad Mac DVD ripper at fast speed. Once the conversion work is finished, you can click "Open" button to get the output DVD movies for your iPad with ease.


  • Tuesday, May 11, 2010

    How to use Pavtube Mac iMedia Converter?

    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.

    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. An excellent MKV Converter for Mac OS X software to convert MKV video on Mac.

    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.

    Best MOD to iPad Converter

    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 MOD to iPad Converter is an ideal tool for people who are using digital camcorders, such as JVC Everio, the Canon FS100 and the Panasonic D-Snap SD-card camcorders. It can edit and convert the recording video MOD from your digital camcorder to other popular video and audio formats like MP4, 3GP, AVI, MPG, MPEG-4, FLV, MOV, 3G2, VOB, MP3, FLAC, MKA, OGG, WAV, AC3, M4A etc. for playback on portable devices like iPod, iPhone, iPad, PSP, Zune, Creative Zen, cell phones and edit in Adobe Premiere, Sony Vegas, Power Director etc.



    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. Select the convert tool for your recipe.

    - 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.

    Learn more: Best iPad video conversion tools