AVCHD to DVD Converter – DVD Creator for Mac is an ideal solution to convert AVCHD video to DVD on Mac. Not only burn HD videos, .M2TS to DVD, .MTS to DVD, .TS to DVD, and .TP to DVD, MOD to DVD, Tod to DVD, AVCHD to DVD, but also burn various regular videos (AVI, MPG, MP4, MOV, 3GP, M4V, MKV, VOB, FLV, etc) to DVD on Mac.

AVCHD to DVD Creator for Mac Key Features

1. Support various video formats: MTS, M2TS, TS, TP, TRP, AVI, MPG, MP4, MOV, 3GP, M4V, MKV, VOB, FLV, etc.
2. Video editing: Trim, Crop, Set Brightness/Contrast/Saturation, and Apple effects for videos.
3. Select the templates of menu, frame, and button or write some text to customize your videos.
4. Support sorts of Disks: DVD¨C5 and DVD¨C9; DVD-R, DVD+R, DVD-RW, DVD+RW, DVD+R DL, DVD-R DL, DVD-RAM.

Step 1: Download AVCHD to DVD Converter for Mac here:

Step 2: Import AVCHD files to DVD Creator for Mac program.
Click ‘Add’ button to import AVCHD videos (.mts, m2ts, .ts, .tp, trp) to Mac DVD Creator.

The added video files will be listed on the right of the main interface, and each file will be a title in your DVD. Double click the added file and it will be played in the right Preview Pane. Use the player control panel to control the preview.
You can adjust the selected file’s position in the list by clicking the Up and Down arrows and delete the selected file by clicking or just pressing the Delete key on the keyboard.

Step 3: Edit Video Files

You can trim and crop the video files and adjust the effects before burning the videos to DVD on Mac OS X.

1. Trim files

This program allows you to trim a clip from your video and burn it to DVD.
You just need to drag the two sliders ( and ) on the process bar to set the beginning and the end of the part which you want to capture when the video is playing. And the trimmed length will be displayed under the file name on the right file list.

2. Cropping Files

Select a file and click , and then you will get the following cropping window.

You can specify an area either by dragging the frame around the video or setting the crop values: Top, Button, Left and Right. On the crop pane, you can select an output aspect ratio and the available options are: Keep Original, full screen, 16:9 and 4:3. You can preview the video in the select aspect ratio on the main interface and during the conversion process.
After you select an output aspect ratio and finish the settings, the result can be previewed before you start burning. You can click the Reset button to remove all the settings.

3. Adjusting Effect

Click Effect to get the following window to adjust the video’s effect.

You can adjust the brightness, contrast and saturation of the video.

You can choose special effect from the Filter drop-down list. There are six special effects: Grey, Emboss, Negative, Black White, White Black and Old Film.

If there are some lines, pixels, mosaics or stripes on the picture, you can choose the suitable option from the interlace drop-down list to adjust the picture. The available options are: Repeat Odd, Repeat Even, Odd Interpolate and Even Interpolate.

Step 4: Customize DVD menu
Hit the menu button to select the templates of menu, frame, and button or add text, background music and background image to customize your videos.

Step 5: Start to burn AVCHD to DVD
Press the burn button to burn AVCHD to DVD and set burning settings: DVD Label, Temp Folder, Burn to, DVD Options, TV Standard, and Aspect Ratio.

Now, you can watch your home-made DVD movie on TV!

For some reasons, you may want to convert your PowerPoint to MOV files? So, what is a MOV file? What are the benefits of converting PowerPoint to MOV, and how to convert PowerPoint to MOV?

What’s MOV
MOV is a file extension used by the QuickTime-wrapped files. The format was created by Apple Computer to work with multimedia files. Though MOV files are quite often found in the web, to play them on Windows computer one has to install an extra component or convert to other format. MOV is a container format and can contain video, animation, graphics, 3D and virtual reality (VR) content or text (for subtitles, for example).

The advantage of MOV files is the ability to contain abstract data references for the media data. That means that they can be easily edited – no need to rewrite all media data after editing.
Benefits of Converting PowerPoint to MOV PowerPoint is commonly saved with PPT, PPTX, PPS, PPSX file extensions. To view a PowerPoint file, we will either need PowerPoint or a PowerPoint viewer installed on the computer. Otherwise, we will not be able to view the PowerPoint file. By converting PowerPoint to MOV, this problem can be solved easily.

Besides, converting PowerPoint to MOV helps us to:
1. View PowerPoint files without a MS PowerPoint installed computer
2. Review PowerPoint in MOV format with iPod, iPhone, Pocket PC or Apple TV
3. Upload PPT files on video sharing sites or your own blog for sharing with others

How to Convert PowerPoint to MOV
Now that there are so many benefits of converting PowerPoint to MOV, how to do it? Wondershare PPT to video is just such a PowerPoint to MOV video converter, which can help us easily convert PPT, PPTX, PPS and PPSX to MOV with all things in the original presentation retained.
Here are the steps to convert PowerPoint to MOV with Wondershare PPT to Video
1. Download the free trial version of the program here and install it on computer
2. Click Add to import the PowerPoint files you want to convert to MOV, 12 PPT files can be converted at a time
3. Set the output video format to MOV, and change the output video resolution if necessary
4. Click Start to start the conversion process.

Try it now, expand the way you share your PowerPoint by converting PowerPoint to MOV.
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I can do it on my smaller tapes because I have a camcorder that has a firewire connection on it. I don’t have any idea, though, how I would do it for my very old VHS tapes. Thank you.

FLV to AAC
This tutorial is to show you how to convert music videos downloaded from YouTube and Google Video, etc. to AAC for digital audio. First of all, we have to make it clear that the YouTube videos and Google videos communicating online are of the Flash Video file, or FLV file format. What is FLV?
FLV, or Flash Live Video file, is a preferred file format that is designed for web playback, offering high rates of compression to deliver video over the Internet using Adobe Flash Player.
FLV content cannot be played back directly but must be embedded in (or linked from) an SWF file. You create (or download) a “container” SWF file from which to play the FLV file. The most common approach is to use an SWF file that functions as a media player with screen and playback controls. Notable users of the FLV format include YouTube, Google Video, Reuters.com, Yahoo! Video and MySpace.

What is AAC?

Advanced Audio Coding (AAC) is a standardized, lossy compression and encoding scheme for digital audio. AAC is promoted as the successor to the MP3 format by MP3’s creator, Fraunhofer IIS.

Depending on the encoder used, AAC generally achieves better sound quality than MP3 at the same bit rate, particularly below 192 kbit.

AAC’s most famous usage is as the default audio format of Apple’s iPhone, iPod iTunes, and the format used for all iTunes Store audio (with extensions for proprietary Digital Rights Management (DRM) where used).

AAC is also the standard audio format for Sony’s PlayStation 3 and the video standard. HE-AAC is part of digital radio standards like DAB+ and Digital Radio Mondiale.

Install and launch Moyea FLV to Video Converter Pro 2

Add FileClick on the “Add FLV” button on the tool bar to import your target FLV files into the program. You can preview the files before importing. Change the Output SettingsYou can select the output path by clicking the folder icon right behind “Export to…“.Select Audio/ Audio AAC in the drop-down list of “Export format“. Click “Settings” and you could start to adjust the settings of the FLV for your output to play on portable devices. You can change the bit rate, audio codec, and sample rate of the Audio, Start ConversionClick “Convert” and “Start” to start to convert the files on the file list to the output folder.

The music downloaded from iTunes is DRM protected as M4P, or “protected AAC”. If you want to play this kind of music beyond Apple environment (iTunes, iPod, iPhone, Apple TV), you need to remove the DRM and convert it to (DRM free) MP3, WMA, WAV format or else.

The following guide is going to show you how to convert iTunes M4P to MP3 for non-Apple mobile players like Zune, PSP, BlackBerry, mobile phone, Creative Zen, Sansa Fuze, G1/Gphone, xbox 360, PS3. It introduces three methods for converting M4P to MP3:

1. Burning and ripping CD in iTunes
2. Convert M4P to MP3 using Digital Music Converter
3. Convert M4P to MP3 using M4P to MP3 Converter

1. Burning and ripping CD in iTunes

a. Insert a CD-R or CD-RW disc into your CD-ROM drive.
b. Burn the iTunes M4P playlist to make an Audio CD. You cannot select the “MP3 CD” option since it requires the DRM protected iTunes M4P files be converted to MP3.
c. After the Audio CD is successfully burned, insert the disc into your CD-ROM drive again. Then you can use iTunes or Windows Media Player to import the music tracks on the burned disc as MP3 files.

2. Convert M4P to MP3 using Digital Music Converter

It is very easy and fast to convert M4P to MP3 using Digital Music Converter:

a. Add iTunes M4P files.
b. Choose “MP3″ as the output format
c. Press the “Start” button.

Now you can get the DRM free music by clicking the “Browse” button next to “Output path” and play it on your mp3 player, cell phone, windows media player and other portable players without any restriction

3. Convert M4P to MP3 using M4P to MP3 Converter

Unlike Digital Music Converter, M4P to MP3 Converter utilizes the virtual CD technology to convert M4P to MP3. Let’s take a look at the steps:

a. Make sure the virtual CD drive is successfully installed.

b. Choose output format in M4P to MP3 Converter.

c. Set burning options in iTunes

You can use the following methods to remove DRM protection from M4P files:

1. You can burn the protected music files to CD-R or CD-RW disc to make an audio CD within iTunes. After the audio CD is successfully burned, insert the disc into your CD-ROM drive again. Then you can use iTunes to import the music tracks on the burned disc to MP3 files.

2. You can convert m4p to mp3 using recording method. Here, NoteCable is recommended. It is a powerful, yet simple audio converting tool to bypass DRM control with a virtual audio recording method. It records any copy-protected music and audio book files (M4P, WMA, AA and M4B) as they are being played and saves the recordings as unprotected audio files (MP3, WMA or WAV) you can enjoy anywhere.

3. The most convenient and time-saving method is using virtual burning software, such as TunePat. It introduces a smart way of converting m4p file to mp3 utilizing virtual burning technology. TunePat works as a CD burner emulator which automatically converts the music you have purchased online as you are burning it to a virtual CD. Since the virtual CD emulates your computer RAM and hard disk as erasable CD-RW drive (Virtual CD-RW), the converting speed is 10 times faster than any other programs which use recording as one of the core converting tricks.

TunePat supports music from iTunes, Napster, Rhapsody, Zune, Yahoo Music, Sony Connect, MusicMatch, MSNMusic, MusicLoad, MTV / urge, MusicNow, BuyMusic, AOL Music, Virgin Digital, Beon Music, Peer Impact, iMusica, Wal-Mart, AOL MusicNow, Audible, connect-europe, akuma, Listen JP, ongen, hmv, Bigpond Music, Soundbuzz, digirama, imusica, cdigix, cingular mMode, puretracks, metro tunes, fnac.

1) Download and install TunePat M4P Converter

System required:

* 32- bit Windows XP, Vista

* 256 megabytes (MB) or higher of RAM

* 1GB of available hard disc drive space or more

* Monitor with 1024×768 pixels or higher resolution

2) Run TunePat, and set mp3 as the output format.

Click Settings button on the top right window, and the Options window pops up. Here, you can browse to choose a file folder for storing the converted songs, choose mp3 as output format, and check the ID3Tag options.

3) Click “Open media player software” button to open iTunes.

Create a new playlist; add music which you would like to burn to thse playlist; click Burn Disc button at the bottom right.

* Choose TunePat Virtual_CD_RW as the CD burner

* Select Audio CD as Disc Format

* Check the “Include CD Text” option

Click Burn button, iTunes will start burning. After a few seconds, TunePat will start encoding the files to mp3.

Note: Audiobooks usually are large audio file with the playtime up to 2-3 hours. In this case, TunePat M4P Converter will convert the audiobook into several separated MP3 files.

After the iTunes m4p files are converted to mp3, you can transfer the mp3 files to your media player, and enjoy them without any restriction.