This is the instruction for converting video, DVD and Youtube online videos to most widely used devices such as Apple iPod, Apple iPhone, Sony PSP, Microsoft Zune and Mobile Phone.
This program is easy-to-use, it’s an all-in-one DVD ripper and video converting tool that can convert almost all kinds of video formats for your devices. The converting speed is fast and the quality of output files is excellent. The program also supports merging files.

(1) Download Any DVD Converter Professional from this website and install it. Below is the interface of the program



DVD and the video formats below can be converted by this program.



(2)Click “Add Video” buttons to browse the video clips from your local machine. You can also simply drag-and-drop the video files to the program. If you insert a DVD disc to your DVD driver, the contents of the DVD will be automatically added to the program.

If you want to download Youtube videos and convert them, you can click “youtube” button to add the youtube video URL. Oh you can copy a Youtube video URL and right-click on the middle panel of the program to paste the link, oh use Ctrl+V. Google video is also supported.



(3) Choose an output format. In the upper right of the program, you can find a profile list. Mp4 output for iPod, iPhone, PSP, Zune and mobile phone is available. Also MPEG-1, MPEG-2, WMV, AVI, FLV, mobile phone 3GP output formats are available. If you want to extract audio from video files, just choose mp3 as output format. And FLV output format means that you can share any video on Youtube website. If you need to make a DVD disc from videos, choose DVD Video NTSC/PAL Movie as output, then use a free program named DVDstyler to burn them to a DVD disc.



(4)Usually, default settings are good enough and it’s recommended. However, you can customize settings completely as you like. Video codec, video size, video bit rate, video frame rate, audio codec, audio bit rate, all of these can be customized. You can even input a value as you like except the device only accepts a certain video size. You can also specify any part of the video you need to convert by specifying the start time and stop time. For DVD, you can specify the chapters, audio language, subtitle and angle ask you like. If you want a silent movie, just simply set Disable Audio option to yes. Audio channel 1 and 2 are mono and stereo.



(5)Before conversion, if you want to preview movie, just select the movie you want to preview and click the play button. There is a little red mark that you can use to go backward or forward. Also you can use it to trim the movie with the first and second button. Double-click on the preview window, the window will magnify and double-click again, it will be back to normal.



(6)There are also some more options for more detailed settings. Click “options” button, or click menu “edit  options”, you can find five tabs.



General tab: Here you can set output folder or open the output folder, specify process priority. If you have a batch of movies that need to be converted, “shutdown computer when encoding finished” option is convenient.
Audio tab: Here you can set output audio volume, AAC parameters and mp3 parameters.
Video tab: Here you can set video preview driver, encode filters. And video resize option is available, you can set video to fit the width or the height, or expand to video size if there is black bar of output movie.
Online Video tab: Here you can login Youtube account.
DVD tab: If you don’t want to separate the DVD as titles, here is an option for you.

(7)If you want to convert some video clips and merge them into a file, please press the Ctrl or Shift button to choose the files you need to merge, then right-click on them and choose Merge Output. The first part of the output will be highlight, and the other files which will be merged will be displayed in gray and will be merged in order. If you want to change the orders of the files, please drag and drop the file in the list to change the order. If you want to cancel the merge operation, please choose the file and click Unmerge Output.





(8)Now, click “encode” button to start the converting. Source Files item shows videos added to the program. You can directly reach a certain output format by clicking the format in Converted list. And the downloaded Youtube or Google online videos are also easy to find. You can also directly click the “Output Folder” button to open the output folder where the converted files locate in.

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