iPod Converter Reviews: how to convert video for iPod, iPhone, iPhone Ringtone

As a crazy fan of iPod and iPhone, many friends come and ask me about how to enjoy movies and videos on their iPod and also they want unique ringtone for their iPhone. Too many people asking those questions, so I spend some time to make this article to show my dear friends that how to enjoy movies on iPod and iPhone and also how to make your own iPhone ringtone.

There are 3 parts in my article:
Part 1: How to put movie and videos on your iPod.
Part 2: How to put movie and videos on your iPhone
Part 3: How to make your own iPhone ringtone

Part 1: How to put movie and videos on your iPod.
If you want to put movie/video on your iPod, you must know what kind of video/movies can be played on your iPod. Look the following:

H.264
File formats: .m4v, .mp4, and .mov
Video: Up to 768 kbits/sec, 320 x 240, 30 frames per second (fps), Baseline Profile up to Level 1.3.
Audio: AAC-LC up to 160 kbits/sec, 48 Khz, and stereo audio.

MPEG-4
File formats: .m4v, .mp4, and .mov
Video: Up to 2.5 Mbits/sec, 480 x 480, 30 fps, Simple Profile.
Audio: AAC-LC up to 160 kbits/sec, 48 Khz, stereo audio.

Wow, that looks really complicated, right? Actually it is really easy to make such video/movie for you iPod. You just need Aiseesoft
iPod Movie Converter.

Ok, let's begin.

Step 1. Load Video
Click “Add File” to load the video/movie that you want to put on your iPod.

Step 2. Choose Profile and Settings
You can choose your output profile on a drop-down list.
Click “Settings” button you can adjust the details of your output video/movie

Step 3. Conversion
Everything is ready and you just need to click “Start” button to begin the conversion.



Tips:
This powerful video convert for iPod allows you to do many video editing works to make your iPod video/movie more colorful.

1. Effect:
You can adjust your movie's effect, such as “Brightness”, “Contrast” and “Saturation”, and you can just check the output effect on the output preview window.
This powerful video converter allows you to choose “deinterlacing”.



2. Trim:
With trim function you can pick up any part of the video/movie to convert and put on your iPod.
There are 3 ways that you can trim your video.
a. You can drag the buttons to set the start and end time
b. You can preview the video first and when you want to start trim click the left one of the pair buttons when you want to end click the right one.
c. You can set the exact start and end time on the right side of the pop-up window.



3. Crop
Crop function allows you to pick up any play area to convert:
There are 2 ways that you can crop your video.
a. You can set your own mode on the bottom of the pop-up window
b. You can drag frame to set your own crop mode



In the Crop window, you can also choose your output “aspect ratio”.
Here it provides you 4 mode to choose: “keep original”, “full screen”, “16:9”, “4:3”

Part 2: How to put video/movie to iPhone
Actually, iPhone is much easier to deal with than iPod, because there are so many generations of iPod.
Put video/movie on iPhone, I use Aiseesoft iPhone Movie Converter.

Step 1. Load Video
Click “Add File” to load the video/movie that you want to put on your iPhone.

Step 2. Choose Profile and Settings
You can choose your output profile on a drop-down list.
Click “Settings” button you can adjust the details of your output video/movie

Step 3. Conversion
Everything is ready and you just need to click “Start” button to begin the conversion.



Aiseesoft iPhone Movie Converter can also do video editing works, such as adjust the effect, pick up any part of the movie, choose play area. The operation is the same as Part 1.

Part 3: How to make your own iPhone ringtone
This time you need Aiseesoft iPhone Ringotne Maker


Step 1: Click “Browse” on the right side of "Input File" to import the file that you want to make ringtone from it.

Step 2: Play it and listen the music to find the segment that you want to use it as ringtone. Then drag and click the start & end slider to set your wanted segment, or type the start & end time in the corresponding text box directly to get the exact segment. You also can pre-listen the converted audio before generate.

Step 3: Click “Browse” on the right side of "Local Output Folder" to choose the output destination.

Step 4: Check "Export to iPhone" option, the converted ringtone will be load to your iPhone directly.

Step 5: After all the settings are finished, click “Generate” to begin making your own iPhone ringtone.

Key function
● Convert any video to iPhone ringtone M4R
● Create iPhone ringtone from any audio files
● Get any clips from video and audio
● Edit Added iPhone ringtones
Using Aiseesoft iPhone Ringtone Maker, you are free to edit the added iPhone ringtone by removing it or renaming it directly.

How to Convert Flip Video?

Flip video camcorder is becoming more and more popular among people because of its convenient, fast and easy-to-use. It can help you catch every moment that around you and share them with your friends at home or on line. But Flip video Camcorder records video just only in .MP4 format, how to make it to other formats and understood by Windows Media Player, Windows Movie Maker, iPod, iPhone, PSP and other PMPs.
All you need is just a Flip Converter which can help you solve this problem. Aiseesoft Flip Converter is the best Flip Video Converter to convert Flip video created by the Flip family: Flip Ultra, Flip Ultra HD, Flip Mino and Flip Mino HD as Flip Mino HD files conversion tool. With this Flip Video Converter, you can convert Flip video to any other video/audio formats MOV, M4V, AVI, 3GP, FLV, HD video and AAC, MP3, OGG, WMA, etc audio formats for all the players.


Here is a simple guide for you to follow and you need a Flip Converter

Step 1. Files importing
You can load your video by clicking “Add File” button or clicking “File” button, you can choose “add file” on a drop-down list. Or even drag the video and audio files into the file list window directly.


After importing the files, you can click button “a”to preview the video.
Tips: It allows you to capture your favorite pictures when you preview.
Click button “b” the current picture in the preview window will be captured and saved in the specified folder in the image type as you have set.
Click button “c” to open the snapshot folder to view the captured pictures
Step 2: Choose Your Output Profile and Settings
Profile: Select an output format for the selected file
Settings: Click “setting” to open the Settings windows:

Video Settings: Set video encoding settings by selecting an encoder, a resolution, a frame rate and video bitrate.
Audio Settings: Set audio encoding settings by selecting an encoder, a sample rate, channels and audio bitrate.
Tip 1: For Resolution setting, you can choose the pre-set Resolution from the right drop-down list. You can also directly input your own resolution as the form of "XXX*XXX".
Tip 2: You can customize the video and audio encoding settings and save them as your own profile. After you have chosen the encoding options, just click the “Save as...” button and name your profile, and then the profile will be saved in the User Defined list. You can use the customized profile next time by selecting it from the list.
Step 3: Video Editing

1: Effect:
Click “Effect” to open the edit window to adjust the video effects
You can adjust the “Brightness”, “Contrast”, “Saturation” and “Volume”.
2: Trim:
“Trim” function allows you to pick up any part of your video to convert. You can just convert a part of your video that you want.
There are three ways available:
Method 1: Enter the start time in the Start Time box and click OK, then enter the end time in the End Time box and click OK.
Method 2: Drag button*below the Preview Windows to mark the beginning of your clip and drag it to mark the end of your clip during the preview.
Method 3: While playing video, click button to mark the beginning of your clip and mark the end of your clip during the preview.
Tips: Click the second button to preview the video frame by frame.
　　　 Click preview button to preview you trimmed clip.
After you set trim time, the length of the captured clip will be shown in the Select Length box for your reference.
3: Crop:
“Crop” means to choose a certain play area to convert.
Method 1: Crop by adjusting the crop frame. The crop frame is the yellow line around the movie video. There are eight small adjustment boxes on the crop frame. Each adjustment box allows you to crop the movie video from a different position. To crop your movie video, you can just move your mouse cursor to an adjustment box and drag the crop frame.
Method 2: Crop by setting the crop values. There are four crop values at the bottom of the window: Left, Top, Right and Bottom. You can set each value to crop your movie video, and the crop frame will move accordingly.
Step 4: Conversion
After finishing all the necessary settings and editing, you can click “Start” to begin the conversion.

If you are a Mac user, here also a Flip Converter for Mac.

How to convert and edit HD video

HD Converter, HD Video Converter

Because of the widely using of HD Camcorder, now it is really convenient to record family parties and other things you are interested in. Nowadays, people would like to share their things with the rest of the world through Internet, such as youtube.com and other video websites.

This guide aims to show you how to convert and edit the video you recorded using your HD camcorder
What you need is a powerful HD Video Converter.

Step 1: Load Video
Click “Add File” to load the video that you want to convert.



Step 2: Choose Your Output Profile and Settings.
From “Profile” drop-down list you can choose your output profile according to your need.
You can also click “setteing”adjust the settings of your output video, such as “video/audio encoder”, “Video/audio Bitrate”, “Channels”, “Resolution” and so on..
Step 3: Video Editing.
This powerful MTS Converter allows you to do many video editings.
1. Click "Effect". to make special effect for your movie.
You can adjust the “Brightness”, “Contrast”, “Saturation” and also you can use “deinterlacing” to improve you output effect.



2. Trim: .
“Trim” function allows you to pick up any part of your video to convert. You can just convert a part of your video that you want.



3: Crop: .
Cut off the black edges of the original movie video and watch in full screen on your iPod using the "Crop" function.



Step 4: Conversion.
After you have done all the steps above you can click “Start” button to start your conversion.

Here I also recommend you some High Definition video converter, MTS Converter, TS Video Converter.

How to convert video files to MP4/3GP/WMV/FLV and other video formats

I am not very good at digital stuff and I don't know exactly what the video format is, such as mp4, wmv, avi, and so on. I only know my iPod accepts mp4 video, my windows movie make supports wmv and if you want to upload your videos to youtube.com you have to make it into flv I think. And if you have a Camcorder video I think not many player can play it so just convert them.

You know I can easily manage those video format because of Aiseesoft Video Converter It allows you to convert videos to any video format you want(including HD video).

Here I will share with you how to use it:

Step 1: Load Video
You can load your videos into the converter by clicking “Add File”



Step 2: Choose output info
This converter provides you many output profiles for you to choose, you can choose your output profiles according to your need. And also you can just choose a certain video format.

You can also adjust the settings of your output profiles. You can even save a certain settings as your own output settings.



Step 3: Conversion
Click “Start” button to begin your conversion and few mins later you can get your video.

Tips: How to effect, trim and crop the video to improve your output video quality.
After your Load your video you can click “Effect” button to access the effect panel

1: Effect
Adjust the video effect as you want: Brightness, Contrast, Saturation and Deinterlacing.



2: Trim
Clip your video, pick up any part of your video to convert.
You have 3 ways to do trim:

1.Dragging the slider

2.Controlling the “Trim From” and “Trim To” button

3.Setting the Start and End time



3: Crop
Adjust video size, Cut off the black edge of your video to let you enjoy your movie in full screen by click the 'Crop' button
You have 2 ways to do crop:

1.Move your mouse cursor onto one of the eight small adjustment boxes on the cropping frame and drag the crop frame to crop the video such as cutting off top and bottom black bar. The cropped result will be shown on the Output Preview at the same time

2.Type the value directly or set the value in "Left", "Right" and "Cropped area size" area to set the position of the cropping frame.



You can also select the aspect ratio from the Zoom Mode drop-down list. There are 4 choices for you: Full Screen, 16:9, 4:3 and Keep Original.

After you convert your videos you can put your video to iPod, Windows Movie Maker, youtube.com, and other player without any problem.