How to Convert Video Files on Mac/Windows

Nowadays, people can enjoy videos in different ways, such as youtube.com and other online video websites, iPod/Zune and other portable players, and also play video on computer, and you can also make you own videos with windows movie make or iMovie for Mac users. So how to convert videos between different video formats is a big problem for both windows and Mac users. Today I will share you guys two powerful video converter for Mac and Windows users.

For Mac users, this powerful video converter for mac is really nice.
Let's use it to convert a video for Example



Step 1: Add File
Click “Add File” button to load the video you want to converter

Step 2: Choose profile and adjust settings
You can find your output video format from a drop-list called “Profile”
You can also adjust the specific settings of the output video, such as “Resolution”, “Bitrate”, “Encoder” and so on.

Step 3: Edit Video
1. Effect:
You can adjust the “Brightness”, “Contrast”, “Saturation” and “Volume”

2. Trim:
You are allowed to pick up any part of the video to convert.

3. Crop:
To remove the black edges and choose a play area to convert.

Step 4: Start Conversion
Click “Start” button to begin your conversion and you will get your video soon.

For Windows users, you need Total Video Converter.



Step 1: Load Video
You can load your videos into the converter by clicking “Add File”

Step 2: Choose output info
This converter provides you many output profiles for you to choose, you can choose your output profiles according to your need. And also you can just choose a certain video format.

You can also adjust the settings of your output profiles. You can even save a certain settings as your own output settings.

Step 3: Conversion
Click “Start” button to begin your conversion and few mins later you can get your video.

Tips: How to effect, trim and crop the video to improve your output video quality.
After your Load your video you can click “Effect” button to access the effect panel

1: Effect
Adjust the video effect as you want: Brightness, Contrast, Saturation and Deinterlacing.

2: Trim
Clip your video, pick up any part of your video to convert.
You have 3 ways to do trim:

1.Dragging the slider

2.Controlling the “Trim From” and “Trim To” button

3.Setting the Start and End time

3: Crop
Adjust video size, Cut off the black edge of your video to let you enjoy your movie in full screen by click the 'Crop' button
You have 2 ways to do crop:

1.Move your mouse cursor onto one of the eight small adjustment boxes on the cropping frame and drag the crop frame to crop the video such as cutting off top and bottom black bar. The cropped result will be shown on the Output Preview at the same time

2.Type the value directly or set the value in "Left", "Right" and "Cropped area size" area to set the position of the cropping frame.

You can also select the aspect ratio from the Zoom Mode drop-down list. There are 4 choices for you: Full Screen, 16:9, 4:3 and Keep Original.

How to Enjoy Your Favorite Videos on Portable Devices at Will For Mac Users

Are you a Mac user?
Do you still feel frustrated that you can’t enjoy your favorite videos on portable devices at will?
Now, a professional software—Aiseesoft
Video Converter for Mac
can help you to solve all the problems. With it, you can convert between all popular video and audio formats with super fast conversion speed and high output quality, such as AVI, MP4, MOV, MKV, WMV, DivX, XviD, MPEG-1/2, 3GP, 3G2, VOB Video, MP3, AAC, and AC3 Audio etc. In addition, the best video converter for Mac can also extract audio from video file and convert video to MP3, AC3, and AAC…as you want.

OK, let’s move to how to use the amazing software.

Step 0: Download and install Aiseesoft Video Converter for Mac.
After a while, you can use the following interface:


Step 2. Load Video
You can load your video by clicking “Add File” button or clicking “File” button, you can choose “add file” on a drop-down list.

Step 3. Output format and Settings
From the “Profile” drop-down list you can find one format that meets your requirement.

After doing the 3 steps above, you can click “start” button to start conversion.
Wait a minute, the conversion will be soon finished.

Tips:
1. Trim
"Trim" function is for you to select the clips you want to convert.
There are 3 ways that you can trim your video.
a. You can drag the buttons(1) to set the start and end time
b. You can preview the video first and when you want to start trim click the left one of the pair buttons(2) when you want to end click the right one.
c. You can set the exact start and end time on the right side of the pop-up window.
It is for you to select the clips you want to convert.

2. Crop
Cut off the black edges of the original movie video and watch in full screen using the "Crop" function.
There are 3 ways that you can crop your video.
a. We provide 7 modes on our “Crop Mode”(1)
b. You can set your own mode on the right side of the pop-up window(2)
c. You can drag frame to set your own crop mode(3)
You can cut off the black edges of the original movie video and watch in full screen using the "Crop" function.

3. Snapshot and merge into one file
If you like the current image of the video you can use the “Snapshot” option. Just click the “Snapshot” button the image will be saved and you can click the “Open” button next to “Snapshot” button to open your picture.
If you want to make several files output as one you can choose “Merge into one file”.

If you are windows users, you can go to Aiseesoft Total Video Converter to get more information.

Mac/Windows MP4 Converter Guide: how to convert video to MP4 format?

MP4 video format is a very popular video format right now. Actually, MP4 file is multimedia file, which is a container format that can store video, audio and subtitle data. MP4 format is really popular because many stores like iTunes are using this container format, iPod and Playstation Portable (PSP) and other popular devices support MP4 format.
This guide aims to show you how to convert videos to MP4 format on Windows and Mac.

For Windows:
To convert videos to MP4 format I use Aiseesoft MP4 Video Converter.

Its input video formats are really amazing.
It can decode MPG, MPEG, MPEG2, VOB, MP4, M4V, RM, RMVB, WMV, ASF, QT, TS, MKV, AVI, 3GP, FLV, MPV, MOD, TOD, MP3, MP2, AAC, AC3, WAV, MID, MIDI, WMA, M4A, RA, RAM, HD video etc. and convert them into MP4 format.

It works perfectly with iPod iPhone, PSP, Creative Zen, Zune, Zune 2, iRiver PMP, Archos, PS3, Xbox, etc.

Step 1: Load Video
Click “Add File” to load the video that you want to convert to MP4 format to Aiseesoft MP4 Video Converter.
You can also do it by clicking “File” and choose “Add File”.



Step 2: Choose Your Output Profile and Settings
From “Profile” drop-down list you can choose your output profile according to your need.
For example, if you have a iPod and you want to convert video for it, you need to choose “iPod” from the profile list and then it also provides the second chance to specify your iPod generation. You can choose “iPod touch”, “iPod nano” and other iPod generation.

You can also adjust the settings of your output video, such as “video/audio encoder”, “Video/audio Bitrate”, “Channels”, “Resolution” and so on.

Step 3: Video Editing
This powerful MP4 video converter allows you to do many video editings.

1. Effect:
You can adjust the “Brightness”, “Contrast”, “Saturation” and also you can use “deinterlacing” to improve you output effect.

2. Trim:
“Trim” function allows you to pick up any part of your video to convert. You can just convert a part of your video that you want.
There are 3 ways that you can trim your video.
a. You can drag the buttons to set the start and end time
b. You can preview the video first and when you want to start trim click the left one of the pair buttons when you want to end click the right one.
c. You can set the exact start and end time at the buttom of the pop-up window.

3: Crop:
“Crop” means to choose a certain play area to convert.
There are 2 ways that you can crop your video.
a. You can set your own mode on the bottom of the pop-up window
b. You can drag frame to set your own crop mod.

Step 4: Conversion
After you have done all the steps above you can click “Start” button to start your conversion.

For Mac:
Mac users can also enjoy Mp4 video at will.
Here you just need Aiseesoft MP4 Video Converter for Mac.



Step 1. Load Video
Click “Add File” to load the video/movie that you want to convert to MP4 format.

Step 2. Choose Profile and Settings
You can choose your output profile on a drop-down list.
Click “Settings” button you can adjust the details of your output video/movie

Step 3. Conversion
Everything is ready and you just need to click “Start” button to begin the conversion.