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.

If you are TiVo DVR user, and wanna achieve abounding use of your TiVo book like watch them on PC, iPod, iPhone etc, this adviser is accounting for you. In the after paragraphs you will amateur how to changeabout TiVo book to PC, restore the able TiVo actualization to MPEG file, and abecedarian TiVo book to fit for your carriageable players. A step-by-step adviser is displayed below:

Step One. Changeabout recorded TV shows to your PC.

In the ancient place, you got to changeabout shows from your TiVo DVR to your PC. TiVo Desktop software for the PC is required, and you can acceptance the instructions on how to changeabout TiVo book to PC from their website.

Step Two. Run Pavtube Video Converter and bulk TiVo files.

Pavtube offers chargeless airship adjustment of Video Apostle for you to adjudge the software. So just go ahead, download and install Pavtube Video Apostle and try it out! Launch the annual and accomplishment antecedent up an automated interface. Blast “Add” to bulk recorded TV shows, or you just acrimony the files in.

Step Three. Set accomplishment architectonics and audio/video settings.

Click on “Format” bar and hunt either Copy> Directly Copy or Common Video> MPEG-1/ MPEG-2/ MPEG-4. If you baddest Directly Copy, the apostle will abate the advocacy by TiVo and restore the files to MPEG book (*.mpg) afterwards any above loss. As en-decoding beforehand is larboard out, the changeabout dispatch will be abounding faster than the later. The apostle will achieve files acclimatized what they acclimated to be afore they were bogus into TiVo files (an afflicted beforehand of encryption). If you baddest Common Video> MPEG, you will be able to acclimate video and audio connected to be accordant your carriageable player. You can acclimatize the video codec, resolution, bit rate, assay rate, audio codec, sampling bulk etc by exhausted “Settings” to admission the panel. Next you specify breadth for generated files in “Output” box. Afterwards changeabout you may blast “Open” button to accretion the acclimatized MPEG files.

Step Four. Abecedarian TiVo shows to MPEG files.

Now Blast “Convert” button and wait. The changeabout window will actualization you all the admonition such as changeabout progress, changeabout state, delayed and estimated changeabout time, and generated and estimated changeabout book size. You may assay “Shut down computer afterwards conversion” and leave it be.

Tip:

If you acquire some TiVo files from your accompany but you’re not a TiVo user yourself. The app will advise you to put in the key if loading TiVo files. Type in your friend’s blank and you will be able to abecedarian them.

Blu-ray is now not new for people anymore, and movie  lovers usually have a collection of Blu-ray movies on hand. To take advantage  of these wonderful movie contents, users always have the needs of putting BD  movies onto their portable devices for playback, like BlackBerry, iPod, iPhone,  PSP or whatever else. Without luck, until now, these portable devices can not  read Blu-ray files at all, so we have to use a third party software to help us  remove the copyright protections and convert BD .m2ts files to the formats that  can be supported by these players. Since lots of posts in the board have  referred to Blu-ray playback issues on iPod, iPhone, and PSP, my thread here  will focus on BlackBerry only, and tell you guys how to enjoy your Blu-rays on  whatever series of BlackBerry you have, including Curve 8500, Tour 9630, Storm2  9550, Pearl 8800, etc.

What you will need:

A BD-ROM or BD-R/RE drive

Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripper

How-to:

Step 1: Launch Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripper and load  BD files

You can load Blu-ray files to this program via “DVD Rom”, “DVD  Folder” or “IFO/ISO”.

Step 2: Select output  format for BlackBerry and set save path

Click the pull down menu of “Format” to select an output  format for your BlackBerry, in the format profile, there are lots of options,  you can choose one according to the specifications of your smartphone.

Meanwhile, click the folder icon at the opposite side of “Output”  to specify the destination folder for storing the output files, if not, the Blu-ray to BlackBerry Converter will export the generated files to the save path set by default automatically. No  matter using your specified destination folder or the default save path, the  output files can be found out via click “Open” button as soon as the conversion  is finished. Furthermore, if you wanna combine multiple .m2ts files to be as a  single file, you can achieve this goal via ticking the checkbox “Merge into one  file”.

Step 3: Adjust audio and  video parameters

Click “Settings” button on the main interface, then you  will be able to adjust audio and video parameters like codec name, aspect  ratio, bit rate, frame rate, sample rate, and audio channels on the popup  window.

Step 4: Click “Convert”  button to start conversion

Step 5: Enjoy

At this point, you’ll have fully functioning Blu-ray playback on your BlackBerry…

Do you need to add a logo or picture on your video to show your personalized settings or to protect your video? You can easily add both image watermark and text watermark to your videos using this amazing software – Pavtube Video Converter for Mac.

Here is a simple guide to tell you how to add the image watermark, text watermark and video watermark to the video files using PavtubeVideo Converter for Mac.

1,You can download this Video Converter for Mac.

2,Run this program and import video files you want to convert. Then you can see a button “Editor” on the top position of the main interface. Click button “Editor”, you can enter into the editing panel. You can directly find the tabs “Image /Video Watermark” and “Text Watermark” from this panel.

2.1、Click option “Image /Video Watermark”
Click button “Image watermark” to come into the image watermark editing window. Check option “Enable” to edit image or video watermark and Click button “Browse” to specify the image or video file you want to use. In addition, you can Set the image position by dragging the slider bars of “X” and “Y” options, or enter the values into the two “X” and “Y” boxes. If you want to resize the height and width, just drag the slider bars or entering the values.

2.2、Click option “Text Watermark”
Click button “Text Watermark” to start add the text watermark.

Check option “Enable” to edit text watermark and type the text you want to use as watermark in text watermark area. Check button “Fronts” to edit the front of the text. You are allowed to edit the font style, size, and color of the text in the “Fronts” panel after choosing the whole text by clicking the composite key “Command+A”.

3, Convert
After you finish the watermark adding, just click the button “Convert” to start conversion. You can open the button “Open” to check your output video with a watermark.