“I want to convert my DVD's to MP4 format. Source video is normally DVD Blu ray Player. With .mp4 format I can put the files on a WD TV Live box connected to TV. The WD box is wifi'd in my network. I can also play the files on my iPad. Some DVD's have episodes or multiple titles. It would be nice to be able to get more than one episode or title at a time.”
As MP4 is the most compatible format for many popular devices and media players, more people want to convert DVD movies to MP4 format for further playback. In this way, they can enjoy DVD movies on their high definition TV with WD box, share them with friends and watch them on their smartphones or tablets whenever they want to. However, some DVDs are the collections of multiple episodes or titles. Is there any easy and quick solution to merge them into one output file? Yes, of course. A wonderful DVD to MP4 Converter is necessary. It will help to both convert and merge DVD to MP4 format.
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It is good at converting the latest Blu-ray/DVD and various HD videos including from camcorders to a variety of video formats for iOS/Android/Windows Tablets & Phones and HD Media Players as well as video editing software including Adobe Premiere, Sony Vegas, Avid Media Composer, Pinnacle Studio, Windows Movie Maker and more. Besides, you are allowed to edit the videos before conversion and it supports merge multiple files into one output file. Now go to try the trial version to experience what it can do for you.
Here let me show you how to convert and merge DVD to MP4 format step by step. Before going on, please make sure having downloaded and installed it.
Step 1. Load DVD disc. Launch the program and click “Load file” button to import DVD source. After loading it successfully, you can go to select subtitle and audio tracks for output.
Check the “Merge into one file” on the main interface; you will get multiple selected titles into one output file. It merges not only the chapter in to a title and file but merges the titles in to one file. If you want to merge DVD with multiple episodes or titles into one MP4 file, check it before conversion.
Step 2. Choose MP4 format.
In the dropdown list of “Format”, there are a mass of video format. You can choose MP4 format directly or choose the desired portable devices. Just choose according to your own needs.
Note: You are also allowed to change the video and audio parameters like codec, bitrate, channels, frame rate, etc. You can adjust it according to your demand or keep it default for output.
Step 3. Convert DVD to MP4.
Click the “Convert” button to start converting DVD to MP4 format. With the technology of CUDA acceleration it will provide you fast conversion speed. Once completed, go to “Open” the generated MP4 files for playback. (Check CUDA acceleration here)
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Do you want to play Blu-ray on WD TV HD Media Player? Do you wan to choose multiple audio tracks or channels for output? Convert Blu-ray to lossless MKV with AC3 5.1/DTS 5.1 audio at first. Here you will find an easy to do it.
It is known that WD TV is a customer device produced by Western Digital and it is good at playing high-definition video, standard video and most common video and audio formats. However, the limitation is that it cannot play Blu-ray disc because of lacking Blu-ray drive. If you want to enjoy Blu-ray movies with WD TV HD Media Player, the best way is to backup Blu-ray to digital version. As MKV is an open source container format, which can hold unlimited number of video, audio, picture or subtitle tracks in one file, we can choose to backup/convert Blu-ray to lossless MKV with with AC3 5.1/DTS 5.1 audio, which is supported by WD TV player.
In this case, a powerful Blu-ray to MKV Ripper is necessary. It can help you to retain all multiple audio and subtitle tracks in MKV files. However, Some WD TV users has difficulty in playing MKV files with DTS audio because some WD TV player can not support DTS sound, like WD TV Mini Media Player. Don’t worry, Pavtube ByteCopy support to select audio codec for every audio tracks in MKV. You can choose to remove unnecessary DTS audio or convert DTS to AC3codec for all WD TV box can decode AC3 5.1.
How to convert Blu-ray to lossless MKV with AC3 5.1/DTS 5.1 audio for WD TV Live media player? 1. Load Blu-ray source.
First of all, insert your Blu-ray to Blu-ray drive and keep networked. Now it’s time to import Blu-ray into the software after launching it.
Click “Load files” icon to choose Blu-ray source for loading.
2. Choose output Multi-track MKV.
In the dropdown list of “Format” menu, you can find several MKV options for output. Here we recommend “Lossless/encoded Multi-track MKV (* mkv)” under “Multi-track Video” catalogue. Because it will save multiple video, audio and subtitle tracks form original Blu-ray in output MKV and you won’t suffer any quality loss.
3. Select audio codec for output
Click “Settings” button on the main interface; you are brought to Multi-task Settings. Here detailed parameters of multiple audio and subtitle tracks are listed and you can change any of them at will.
In default system setting, every track is checked for lossless MKV output. If you want to remove one of them, just uncheck it from the list. Check “Encode” option, you can change audio parameters like codec, channels according to your needs. In this way, if you don’t like DTS audio, you can choose to remove it or convert to AC3 here.
Note: If you change audio parameters under “Encode” option, you will get a encoded multi-track MKV file, not lossless multi-track MKV. Recoding Blu-ray to MKV will take a little more time for conversion than lossless output.
4. Backup Blu-ray to lossless MKV with AC3 5.1/DTS 5.1 audio.
When everything is ready, you can click “Convert” button to start Blu-ray to MKV conversion. Once finished, go to “Open” the generated multitracks MKV.
Now it is time to enjoy your favorite Blu-ray movies with WD TV player!
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Description: Which is more user-friendly Blu-ray Ripper on the market from three aspect: disc loading, backing up Blu-ray/DVD main movie in m2ts without any quality loss, profile customizing, multiple audio tracks and subtitle streams retaining, srt/ass/ssa subtitle adding, output multi tracks MKV/MP4/MOV and converting. DVDfab? Pavtube ByteCopy? The article will show you.
No matter you are a newbie or professional who wanna get Blu-ray Disc collection backed up to computer hard drive or ripped Blu-ray movies to other video format for playback on new iPad 3, iPad mini, Apple TV 3, Samsung Galaxy Note 2, Galaxy Tab 3, Google Nexus 7, Surface, Kindle Fire HD, etc, it is not easy to find the suitable tool because there is so many on the market.
In below article I compare two most popular and hottest tools on the market from three aspects, disc loading, profile customizing and converting, hope it can help you more or less and you can make a much easier choice.
DVDFab: I insert the disc before running DVDFab, and when I open the software it automatically detect the disc and start loading. While it seems like that DVDFab cannot correctly detect the BD region code. My Blu-ray Disc Avatar is region A and region B, while after loading into DVDFab, it shows this disc is from region C by default and I have to manually change to correct region for successful disc loading.
Meanwhile it takes 3-5 minutes to finish disc loading process, and there is no estimated loading time period so I have no idea how long it will take until it is complete after 5 minutes.
ByteCopy: I installed Pavtube ByteCopy on the same computer and click this "Load Disc" icon to import same Avatar Blu-ray Disc, I do not need to choose BD Region Code or anything else, and it only takes about 10 seconds to finish disc loading.
Plus, there is a percentage showing the progress of disc loading so I would know when the disc can be successfully imported.
Part 2. Custom profile settings.
1. Disc audio streams and subtitle tracks selection.
DVDFab: The GUI of DVDFab is very fresh and I could easily know the functions of every button, like the "Edit" icon for cropping and resizing source disc, the device image or "Profile" icon for output format settings, the "Advanced Settings" for customizing profile parameters, etc.
But I had trouble finding the icon to selecte subtitle and audio track in the first place, and accidentally I put my mouse on the selected Disc title, now I see the drop-down list of subtitle and audio tracks.
ByteCopy: There are obvious icons on Pavtube GUI so I can easily set up the desired subtitle track and audio stream.
2. Video editing option.
DVDFab offers two video editing options, one is Resize output movie resolution and another is Crop unwanted video black bars.
In ByteCopy Video Editor Tab, I find other options beside crop and resize, including trimming, adding text/image/video watermark, adding video effect, audio editor and attaching srt/ass/ssa subtitles, etc. Meanwhile, on ByteCopy GUI, I am able to merge several video clips into one or split one large movie into several segments.
Part 3. Start conversion.
1. Automatic rename function.
DVDFab: Once complete profile settings, I click the big "Start" button to convert my Avatar Blu-ray. While here comes an error message which shows "The file already existed, do you want to overwrite it?" because I did a similar conversion before. If I choose "Yes", my current ripped movie would overwrite the previous one and the previous ripped movie is gone forever, but if I choose "No", the conversion just aborts and tells me "Process Failed", so weird.
Later I realize that I have to manually rename the movie before starting conversion to avoid this error message again.
ByteCopy: I completely rip this movie without renaming the file and Pavtube ByteCopy does not pop up any similar error, instead it would add a number like 0, 1, 2,…at then end of the output movie name, so I will not loose any of the movies I ripped, this amazes me.
3. Locate output file.
In DVDFab, I cannot find any button that would lead me to the created movie, it means I have to remember to file path I set up then open computer hard drive to look for that file; in Pavtube ByteCopy, it is considerate to put "Open" icon on GUI to locate the ripped movie, or I could click this "Open output folder" on conversion UI as well.
Below is my point of view about these two BD ripping tool, DVDFab and Pavtube ByteCopy, and considering to user-friendly aspect, I prefer Pavtube ByteCopy.
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The Blu-ray/DVD movies, MTS, MXF, M2TS, TS, M4V, MOV, WMV, MP4, MPG, Tivo, AVI, 3GP, FLV, F4V videos …are all supported to be converted to suitable format for Android tablets or phones.
Download a free trial version and let start to do the magic - enjoy video, 2D/3D Blu-ray/DVD on any Tablets, Smartphones, HD Media Players, Game players, HDTV, etc. 1. Click the top left two icons to import discs or videos correspondingly.
Click the drop-down list on the bottom; choose proper presets according to your device model. You can see columns for normal Android devices, tablets/phones from HTC, Samsung, Motorola or PSP/PS3.
Or you can use the small search box (besides the big red "3") to locate your device quickly.
2. Check the pencil-like icon to activate the editing function. Here you can trim, crop, add 3D effect, deinterlace or edit audio before conversion. Notice the small triangles under the progress bar? Click them to adjust frame by frame easily.
3. If you want to output video in specific size, bitrate or frame rate, click "Settings" (which is marked as "3") and change the digits as you need. Pls notes that the video quality improved with the bitrate, but not the higher the better. You need to consider your device configuration as the high bitrate required higher read&write speed.
4. Ok now click the "Convert" button to start converting/copying Blu-ray/DVD/HD Videos to Andorid tablet ot phone for playing. After conversion, click "Open" to locate the converted video directly.
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How to editing Canon C300 MXF files in Final Cut Pro 7 and Final Cut Pro X? Follow our tips to get free or paid MXF Converter to make video editing with C300 MXF footage go as smoothly as possible.
Working with Canon C300 footage – which is XDCAM 422 50/Mbs footage in a .MXF wrapper – should ordinarily be quite straight forward. MXF files will work natively in Adobe Premiere and ingest quite happily through a free plugin in Final Cut Pro 7 and FCP X. You can also bring this footage in through AMA into Avid Media Composer 6. AbelCine has an excellent step by step guide to importing C300 footage to Premiere CS6, FCP X, FCP 7 and Avid Media Composer 6. You can check it out here.
Everything will work seamlessly, that is, if your cards have been copied correctly to the hard drive with their entire folder structure intact. Without that folder structure you are effectively locked out of accessing your footage and an editing application like FCP7 will give you an error message like this one:
How to Copy MXF Files Correctly
So how do you copy cards correctly?
Well first, and this may go without saying, but if you're going to get an intern or producer to do it make sure they know what they're doing. Essentially you must copy the entire card structure (preferably not through dragging and dropping in the finder).
Sony and Canon both have free browser apps that will let you back up your media. Or you could invest in something like Shotput Pro to duplicate your cards to multiple drives simultaneously. You are backing them up as you go, right?
If that's not enough detail, just watch this great tutorial on a correct tapeless media workflow from Shane Ross. Although the tutorial winds up in Final Cut Pro 7, the initial principles are the same for any system. If you want even more tips, check out this great video from Chase Jarvis on his complete tapeless workflow.
What To Do If Your C300 Card Structure Is Broken
If for whatever reason your card structure doesn't come across intact, what can you do?
Depending on your NLE you have various options. If you're in Adobe Premiere it doesn't matter, as it will read the MXF files just fine.
First, you can try to 'fake it' out by recreating the C300 card structure (which should look like the example below). In the past I'm sure I've gotten lucky with it but its a pretty slim chance of actually working.
FCPX needs a correct card structure so if you have to, transcoding in a 3rd party app is a feasible workaround.
Free App For Converting C300 MXF Files
Miro is a great free app (one of the few free apps I found) that actually works and works well. Miro Video Converterwill allow you to grab the .MXF files and transcode them into Pro Res 422, DNxHD and AVC Intra 1080p and 720p. You can batch transcode as many of them as you like and it works pretty quickly. The files look great and were a higher quality than files I created using the demo of Pavtube iMedia Converter for Mac（Here is a detailed steps）. But as Miro is a free app, there are a few catches.
First, you cannot specify the output folder and it defaults to your MacHD > User > Movies folder. So you need to have enough space on your boot drive to transcode the footage too. This is also a problem if you have multiple files with the same name, (which I had on this edit with a two camera shoot) as this means you have to transcode one set at a time and move them out of the folder so as not to overwrite them with the next batch. Annoying.
Also the original camera footage I was working with had two audio tracks in it where as Miro would only export a single mono track. This was not helpful either as I needed to be able to mix each track individually.
Note: If you want to retain multiple audio tracks from Canon C300 MXF videos, you are recommended to get a professinal multi-track MXF Converter for Mac program: Pavtube iMixMXF. The following links are detailed steps:
As I was editing on an FCP7 system I had to find a way to get my C300 MXF files to play nice with Final Cut Pro 7, while getting around the broken file structure. A cry for help on Twitter led to this great recommendation from Andy Mees who saved the day by suggesting I check out both MXF Import from Calibrated {Q} or MXF4Mac from Hamburg Pro Media. Both plugins essentially do the same thing which is to allow Quicktime (and any apps that make use of the Quicktime architecture) to work with MXF files, just like any other file.
Calibrated{Q} MXF Import for OSX is a QuickTime Import component for NATIVE Importing and Editing of MXF Files within Final Cut Pro 6, 7, and X without using Log and Transfer.
And you’re not just limited to Final Cut Pro, you can also natively import and work with MXF files in CatDV, Compressor, Motion, Sound Track Pro, QuickTime Player and Shake.
You can download a free demo of MXF Import from Calibrated {Q} to test that it will work on your system. The demos only restriction is that it only allows you to view the first 30 seconds of the clip, other than that it’s the same as the full app. After installing the plugin I could drop the C300 MXF files directly onto the timeline in FCP7 and get editing – and with the dual audio tracks in the original files! Huzzah.
Hopefully these tips will save you some time, effort and frustration with broken MXF file structures. And next time you’ll just copy the cards structure correctly…and get to editing!
To learn more about Canon, Panasonic P2, Sony XDCAM MXF videos editing and transcoding on Windows or Mac, the MXF Column from camcordervideoshare.altervista.org is highly recommended.
Description: Are you annoying backup Blu-ray main movie to M2TS without any quality loss? Are you looking for an easy but effective way to backup Blu-ray main movie? Here you will find a professional way to do it easily.
Q1: “Because I have a lot of original DVD and Blu-Ray and I need to transport to an external hard disk for backup and access from my computer, iTunes and Smart TV” - Benjamin
Q2: “I wanna backup my Blu-ray without keeping the menu and promotional clips etc. My preference for backup is only the Movie or main feature, with all other content not copied” - Copperfield
There are many demands about going to backup blu-ray main movie to M2TS file with original quality and no conversion. It is known that Blu-ray movies are protected by copyright including AACS, BD+, region code, etc. So we need a tool to remove these copyright protections and then backup the m2ts files from original blu-ray. Moreover, one joint m2ts file should be better for further playback, editing, sharing or burning disc.
You may consider looking for several tools respectively to rip Blu-ray, make full copy of Blu-ray and then merge m2ts files into one. Do not be so complicated. There is a professional way to backup the intact Blu-ray main movie with amazing speed. Pavtube BDMagic (For Mac users: BDMagic for Mac), one all-in-one Blu-ray to M2TS backup program will help you to get everything done. It is capable of saving a decrypted multi-track m2ts file without encoding, which will completely keep the quality of original blu-ray. (Tested a 27GB Blu-ray disc, only 30 minutes to back up the main movie on Windows 8.)
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Key features of the professional Blu-ray Ripper:
Rip the latest Blu-ray/DVD including 3D blu-ray
Directly Copy Blu-ray/DVD main movie with multiple audio and subtitle streams
Convert Blu-ray/DVD to a variety of video formats
Full Disc Copy Blu-ray/DVD’s original file structure to BDMV folder
Guide of how to backup the intact Blu-ray main movie to M2TS file without conversion Step 1: Select Blu-ray source.
When launch the best Blu-ray to M2TS backup software, click “Load files” button on the top left, you will get three options:
Load the disc: Inserted discs are usually recognized and listed automatically, just select the one you desired.
Load from the folder: When you have copy the content of disc to computer or hard device, use this option to select the folder to import.
Load ISO/IFO: If your blu-ray source is ISO file, use this option to load.
Once imported, you will get a list of titles on the source. The main title with longest duration usually has been selected automatically.
Step 2: Choose Directly Copy for output.
Firstly, go to select the location of output files. Simply click “Browse” button and choose the destination folder.
Secondly, click “Format” menu you will find lots of format options in the dropdown list. Here “Directly Copy” is the best choice for you because it will copy the intact main movie without any recoding. In this way, you will get a lossless m2ts file at amazing conversion speed.
Note: Many other video formats are listed there. You can select different output video formats according to your different requirements. If you want to convert blu-ray to various formats for smartphones or edit software, you are free to choose the one you need.
Step 3: lossless Backup Blu-ray main movie to M2TS.
Now it is time to start backing up Blu-ray to M2TS without encoding by clicking big “Convert” button. Then click “Open” button you will find a quick way to locate the generated files. Once completed, you can get one lossless m2ts file with multiple streams from original Blu-ray.
As the generated M2TS file is intact Backup of Blu-ray main movie, so it will retain all the multiple audio and subtitle tracks and it cannot be selected during conversion. If you want to remove some undesired tracks, you can count to tsMuxeR for help.
How to select multiple tracks in m2ts file (optional):
After having downloaded it, unzip the tsMuxeR you will get the command line version and GUI version, which is tsMuxeR.exe and tsMuxeR GUI.exe. Double click tsMuxeR GUI to run the program and then follow below guide.
1. Click “Add” button to import m2ts files and you will find the tracks information listed. 2. Uncheck the undesired tracks in the list. 3. Select “M2TS muxing” option for output. 4. Choose the output folder for generated files by hitting “Browse” button. 5. Click “Start muxing” button to remove the undesired tracks.
Tips: If you have difficulty in playing m2ts files, you are recommended to try free VLC Media Player. It will help you to completely enjoy blu-ray movie.
It works easily and at high efficiency. With it Backup intact Blu-ray main movie is no long the complicated thing. Now take time to enjoy it.
