Thursday, February 28, 2013

Enjoy YouTube FLV Movies on Xbox 360


How popular is the online video sharing site YouTube? I think it is impossible for you to count the total amount of the uploaded videos and the peak concurrent users of YouTube. Since the publication of YouTube, numerous members have already uploaded tons of interesting videos, MVs, film trailers, educational video tutorials, etc. to it. Most of the content on YouTube has been uploaded by individuals, although media corporations including CBS, the BBC, VEVO, Hulu, and other organizations offer some of their material via the site, as part of the YouTube partnership program.
The Xbox 360 is the second video game console developed by and produced for Microsoft and the successor to the Xbox. The Xbox 360 competes with Sony's PlayStation 3 and Nintendo's Wii as part of the seventh generation of video game consoles. Several major features of the Xbox 360 are its integrated Xbox Live service that allows players to compete online, download arcade games, game demos, trailers, TV shows, music and movies and its Windows Media Center multimedia capabilities.
However, even though Microsoft has applied a built-in YouTube app to the Xbox for viewing YouTube directly, it doesn’t mean that Xbox users can watch YouTube on Xbox 360 without any problem. YouTube videos always come out as FLV, and sometimes WMV, AVI and more, while the Xbox only support some formats particularly encoded with H.264, MPEG-4 or WMV. Because of the incompatibility of either the video format or the file codec, it is still a trouble for users to play YouTube on Xbox.
If you want to freely enjoy the YouTube FLV movies on Xbox 360, you’d better convert them to Xbox accepted format via a third-party Video Converter (Video Converter for Mac) beforehand. In addition, if you have the demand to edit FLV on Mac/Windows, you can try this FLV editor for Mac. After the process, the YouTube FLV Movies will be perfectly accepted by Xbox 360.

Wednesday, February 27, 2013

Wintal PVR 10HD Reviews and Tips


Wintal PVR 10HD is favored by many people now for it is somewhat the best high definition digital set top box with a build-in 500GB hard drive that allows users to continuously record high quality TV shows for many hours. The PVR 10HD's genuine twin HD tuners enable users to record 2 shows simultaneously and also watch a third pre-recorded program or a third live sub-channel at the same time. Moreover, it also make a big progress compared to its previous versions as it can now accepts unique 2 additional source inputs, allowing users to connect external sources such as cable TV, VCRs or DVD players for the first time, viewing and recording these sources as if they were just another television channel!
As most of TV channels begin to heavily broadcast in high definition, the PVR 10HD is the best yet simple solution for all your SD and HD digital television recording demands.

High definition picture and sound

Integrated MPEG2/ H.264 HD decoder
Watch crystal clear free-to-air television in stunning high definition
1080i HD output via the HDMI output
Dolby 5.1 channel AC-3 Audio decoding // Watch your favorite shows in 5.1ch surround sound!
Automatic downmix of 5.1ch AC3 to two channels encoded with Dolby Prologic Surround
Get digital audio output via the optical rear port to connect to your AV receiver
Doremisoft Video Converter for Mac
Since Wintal PVR 10HD is such a perfect recorder for people to enjoy TV shows – you know, all men are greedy – it would be more adorable if the PVR recordings can be transfer to mobile devices for playback, e.g. play HD PVR videos on iPhone.
However, as we all know, the .pvr file is not a common video format and thus cannot be directly playback on these mobile devices for the format incompatibility. If you want to play the PVR recordings on devices like iPhone, you’d better use a PVR to iPhone Video Converter (Video Converter for Mac) to convert the PVR videos to iPhone compatible video formats.
A well developed PVR video converter like the ingenious design of Doremisoft can not only change PVR files to iPhone accepted file format, but also transcode PVR to DVconvert PVR to MKV and more. So, wait no more time to get this PVR converter downloaded!

Tuesday, February 26, 2013

How to Watch HD Videos on Mobile Devices


Today, mobile-Internet has become a concept that deeply roots inside people’s mind. Many people would like to purchase a brand new mobile device such as Kindle Fire HD, iPad Mini, iPhone 5 for mobile office or for entertainment use. All these devices become popular mainly because of the same reason: great portability and entertaining features. Say Kindle Fire HD, with an impressive price, a stunning screen and rich features, it is now a big success in the tablet market.
However, all these devices are sharing the same shortcoming: the supported video formats are very limited. Hope to watch your MKV movies, funny FLV video downloaded from YouTube or other kinds of file like WMV, AVI on iPad Mini/iPhone 5? It's a pity that it is impossible because the iPad Mini/iPhone 5 can only support MOV, M4V or MPEG and some particular types of AVI format. Let alone watching HD videos like 1080p MKV and HD PVR videos on these devices.
If you want to play 1080p MKV on Kindle Fire HD, or transfer HD video to iPad mini, play HD PVR videos on iPhone, you need to use a professional third-party Video Converter (Video Converter for Mac).
Step 1: Import videos to the HD MKV/HD PVR to iPhoneConverter
Free download, install and launch the Converter. Click "Add Files" button to load your video files; you can preview and take snapshot, or merge all added files into one if necessary.
add video files
Step 2: Set proper output format
Under the menu of "Profile", you can see there are list of presets for all famous devices. For example, to optimal playback on iPad Mini, please choose "Apple Device"->"iPad Mini".
set output format
Step 3: Start the conversion for the mobile devices
Hit "START" button to run the mobile devices video conversion. When the conversion is perfectly done, you can directly access to the generated file in the folder by default and transfer them to the target devices.

Monday, February 25, 2013

Enjoy Watching Videos on Google Nexus 7


Google Nexus 7, known as one of the biggest rivals of iPad, is the first Android 4.1 tablet with 1280x800 resolutions. Like Apple's iPad, Microsoft's Surface and Amazon's Kindle Fire, Google Nexus 7 is favored by many people. With over 9 hours of HD video playback battery and a vibrant high-definition 7" screen, it's no doubt that this portable Google Nexus 7 tablet is a great choice to enjoy movies anywhere. However, it is still a pity that it can accept very limited video playback file formats like MPEG-4, H.264 even though some video player plug-ins like MX player makes it up to the issue with a little richer capability of videos.
Do you also troubled by the format incompatibility? If this is the only problem that stops your from buying the Nexus 7, you can take it easy now! In this case, a professional Nexus 7 Video Converter (Mac Video Converter) will be your best choice to get your home-made or downloaded video files playback on Nexus 7. With it, you can easily convert common videos to Nexus 7 supported files (H.263, H.264 AVC, MPEG-4 and VP8), e.g. convert MKV to Nexus 7WMV to Nexus 7VOB to Nexus 7.
Some people may still wonder about if the Nexus 7 is compatible with iTunes. Well, the answer is obviously no, but the Nexus 7 video converter mentioned above can also help users sync iTunes to Nexus 7.
Step 1: Free download, install and launch this easy-to-use Mac MKV to Nexus 7 Converter.
Step 2: Click "Add File" to load the videos to the program. If you have multiple files wanted to convert, this Converter for Nexus 7 supports batch conversion.
Tips: If you want to personalize your videos, you can clip or edit them: clip videos to get the wanted segments, crop the black bars and adjust video effects.
import Video info FCP
Step 3: Choose Nexus 7 compatible format as output format: "Tablet" > "Google Nexus 7 (*.mp4)". It is the optimal output format for Google Nexus 7. Of course, you can customize the video and audio settings if necessary.
Choose MP4 for Nexus 7
Step 4: Press the "START" button to begin the conversion. And after the conversion finished, you can connect your Nexus 7 to your computer via USB cable and transfer the converted movies to Nexus 7 for playback anytime anywhere you go.

Friday, February 22, 2013

FAQ and Solutions of Burning DVDs on Mac


Many Mac users would like to create home DVDs including videos, music and pictures, but to burn DVDs under Mac platform would not be easy. The problems can be summed up as below and more:
1. Fail to sync all contents to DVD, like no music or no iPhoto transitions.
2. "Out of sync" problem.
3. Export to iMovie then to iDVD with very large size.
4. Have burned successfully but can't be played on normal DVD player.

FAQ of Buring DVDs on Mac

Q: "I created a Slideshow from iPhoto complete with music, sequences a timing. When I tried to burn it to a DVD, everything gets out of sync to which I have to start everything over. I've tried to do it in IDVD, and this morning to IMovie. The IMovie I may become successful, but yikes, my butt hurts from sitting too long trying to figure this out!"
Q: “I recently purchased a Macbook pro with Lion OS X. I am trying to burn a movie to disk and cannot locate iDVD on my computer. Does it not come with Lion? I have iMovie, iPhoto, etc. I tried to locate it in apps for downloading and there is nothing available.”
Q: "I have tons of .avi to watch, and I'd like to burn them onto a dvd to watch them on my ps2 hopefully, or else I'd have to plug my other dvd player which isn't very new either (3-4 years)) - but I don't know what to do for that. If you can help me that would be very appreciated :D"
Q: “I got a bloggie because I wanted to take videos of my kids but now I've discovered that I can't burn them onto DVD's. Can anyone help? How to burn videos from bloggie?”
---From discussions.apple.com

Solutions:

1. For Burning iPhoto Slideshow to DVD or iTunes movies to DVD, you have to do two things (burning iPhoto for example):
1) Export iPhoto Slideshow in a right format.
a) Go to "The File"-> "Export"-> Sideshow menu option, and then click "Export".
b) In the Export Save As pop-up, click Custom Export and choose "Movie to QuickTime Movie" or "Movie to MPEG-4", depending on which format you want.
c) Click Options to set QuickTime video and sound options, such as compression settings and filters, and then click OK.
d) Type a name for the QuickTime movie and choose where to save it on your hard disk, and then click the Save button.
2) Use a professional third-party iPhoto Slideshow to DVD Burner for Mac to help you create the best quality DVD. Here I would recommend you Doremisoft DVD Maker for Mac.
add-file
2. To burn AVI to DVD/Sony bloggie to DVD/Olympus stylus tough to DVD on Mac, you just need to do the second step as have mentioned above.

Thursday, February 21, 2013

How to Change Sony/Panasonic AVCHD Videos’ Format to Fit the iMovie


"I was able to import my Sony Handycam DCR-SR100 mpeg2 files to iMovie, and it looks and sound fine. However, when I upgraded to Lion, I can use iMovie to view my source video on my laptop, I can see them but without audio." -Excerpted from Apple Support Community.
Do you also suffer from kinds of problems in importing your shootings from Sony Handycam to iMovie?
In fact, although Panasonic HDC series, Sony Handycam series, Sony HDR series and Panasonic Lumix DMC series are fantastic high-end camcorders for capturing stunning pictures and movies, most of their recordings in high-definition AVCHD MTS/M2TS format are not supported by iMovie. Even iMovie'11, it is still in poor compatibility with shootings in 1080-60p or 1080-50p, etc. Listed below are the camcorders models that are not accepted by iMovie:
Sony HDR series:
Sony HDR-SR1, Sony HDR-SR11, Sony HDR-SR12, Sony HDR-SR8 Sony HDR-TG5, Sony HDR-UX20, Sony HDR-XR160, etc.
Sony Handycam series:
Sony HDR-TG3, HDR-CX150, HDR-CX130, HDR-SR11, HDR-SR12, sony HDR-CS700V, HDR-XR160, Sony DCR-S68, DCR-SR42, HDR-CX11, HDR-CX12, HD DCR-SR60, DCR-DVD508, etc.
Panasonic Lumix series:
Panasonic Lumix DMC-TS3, DMC-FT1, DMC-LX5, or DMC-FZ48, etc.
Panasonic HDC series:
Panasonic HDC-SD60, HDC-SD90, HDC-SD100, HDC-SD600, HDC-SD800,HDC-SD900, HDC-HS700, HDC-TM60, HDC-TM700,HDC-TM900, HDC-TM80, HDC-HS9, HDC-SX5,etc.
If you have just captured videos with any camcorder models as listed above and want to edit the AVCHD MTS/M2Ts in iMovie/FCP, you will need to convert Sony Handycam/Sony HDR/Panasonic Lumix/Panasonic HDC AVCHD to Mac accepted video format.
In this case, Doremisoft AVCHD Video Converter (AVCHD Video Converter for Mac) could be a great assistant that can decode and convert Sony Handcam/Sony HDR/Panasonic HDC/Panasonic Lumix AVCHD to iMovie compatible file format like MOV, H.264, etc.

How to Convert Panasonic HDC/Lumix/Sony HDR/ Sony Handycam to iMovie

Step 1: Import the AVCHD M2TS file(s) to the Mac AVCHD Converter (Mountain Lion supported).
Add Legria MTS Video
Step 2: Set iMovie MOV as the output file format.
Sony HDR AVCHD to iMovie
Step 3: Start converting Panasonic HDC/Lumix/Sony Handycam/Sony HDR to Mac.
When the conversion is done, you will be able to easily import the converted videos to iMovie for editing. In the "File" menu of iMovie, click "Import" button to load the videos.

Wednesday, February 20, 2013

Tips for Transferring Sony Cybershot/Handycam AVCHD MTS to iMovie/FCP on Mac


Sony Handycam series and Cybershot series are the most outstanding and stunning camcorders today. Quite a few users would prefer to capture footages with these amazing cameras. After shooting videos, they’d love to transfer the recordings from Sony Cybershot/Sony Handycam to Mac and use some editing tools to adjust the videos’ after effects. However, for Mac users, things would not be so easy since all the Mac-based video editors like iMovie, FCP (the latest versions of these software are not included) etc. cannot recognize camcorder AVCHD MTS videos at all.
Although Apple declared that the latest iMovie can do a better job than the previous version in dealing with camcorder footages in DV, HDV and AVCHD, etc. as well as the Final Cut Pro X, both the FCP and iMovie are still in a poor compatibility with the majority of camcorder AVCHD MTS/M2TS videos, which make it a pain in the butt for many camcorder photographers to transfer Sony Handycam/Sony Cybershot to Mac.
How to convert these camcorder AVCHD MTS to Final Cut Pro X/iMovie? You need the help of a great Mac AVCHD Converter (AVCHD Converter)!
To convert MTS to iMovie/FCP with this smart AVCHD converter, 3 simple steps is enough:
Step 1: Download and install a professional Mac AVCHD Converter
Download a Mac AVCHD Converter from the Internet. Doremisoft AVCHD Converter is recommended. After downloading, install and run it.
Step 2: Load MTS videos to the converter
Click the "Add File" button to browse your Mac hard disk and select the MTS videos you want to edit in iMovie or FCP.
Step 3: Set FCP or iMovie compatible format as output profile
Choose the output format and saving file folder from the profile and destination. To import MTS to FCP, select "MPEG-4, MOV, MPEG-1, DV, or 3GP" as output video format, while converting MTS to iMovie, choose "iMovie video--->iMovie MPEG-4 Movie File".
Step 4: Import AVCHD MTS to iMovie/FCP
Press the big purple button to start the MTS to FCP/iMovie conversion, and leave the smart converter to do the rest for you. Thereafter, you can easily transfer the converted MTS videos to Final Cut Pro X or iMovie effortlessly.

Monday, February 18, 2013

Tips for Dealing with Canon Vixia XF, FS, EOS, Legria, Powershot Recordings


Amazing image quality and outstanding performance are just two of the many benefits photographers, from beginners to professionals, will experience with every interaction with a Canon EOS digital camera. However, different types of Canon models capture videos in different video formats. For example, Canon Legria HF series saves recordings in MTS/M2TS format.

In this regard, it would be troublesome to deal with all these camcorder shootings with such diversified formats, and we would need a professional Canon Video Converter to help. Doremisoft Canon Video Converter can handle almost all kinds of video incompatibility issues between Canon series footages and target devices.

Now please read this article which covers tips and tricks on the Canon Vixia AVCHD, Canon XF MXF, Canon FS MOD or Canon EOS MOV Legria HF AVCHD video playback or editing in FCP X, Avid Media Composer, Adobe Premiere Pro, Sony Vegas, Windows Movie Maker, and so on.

For instance, if you only need to watch the Canon Legria on Mac, the VLC media player for Mac can be your first choice. However, if you want to edit the files with iMovie or Final Cut Pro, you would need Doremisoft Canon Legria Video Converter for Mac. Tutorials are as follow:

Step 1: Free download, install and run the Canon Video Converter.
Step 2: Load video files from Canon camcorders to the program by clicking “Add File”.


Step 3: Select "Common Video">"MOV-QuickTime" as the correct output file format.


Tips: If you want to polish the recordings, just use the "Edit" function integrated in the converter.


Step 4: Hit "Start" button to begin the conversion from Canon camcorders to MOV video format for Mac and Mac-based applications.

With the superior HD video performance, superb optics, leading technology and advanced features, Canon cameras are almost perfect, so your editing work demands in a high quality and efficiency as well. Use Doremisoft Canon Video Converter, all the troublesome issues will be perfectly solved, and you can easily finish the conversion between Canon camcorders and the task devices.