Part 1. How to download videos from YouTube?

I’d like to recommend using the online YouTube downloader called GrabTube to download videos from YouTube. With this online converter, you can download and convert YouTube video to MP3, 3GP, AVI, FLV or MPG. It is as easy to use as:

1. Browse on over to http://www.grab-tube.com/converter where the converter lives and you will see a screen that looks like this:

2. The URL bar at the top of the screen lets you simply paste a URL of the YouTube video to download. Drop down the format next to it and hit the download button.

3. You will see the next screen with links to download the file to your computer. With the file, you can then use the service to convert it to another file type.

Part 2. How to convert YouTube videos to AVI/WMV for Windows Movie Maker?

The videos downloaded using GrabTube are in MP4/3GP/FLV format. In order to put them onto Windows Movie Maker, you still need to convert the videos to AVI/WMV format. I always use Clone2Go Video Converter to convert between common video formats including AVI and WMV. Apart from a video converter, this piece of software can also be used to download videos from YouTube. So, back to Part 1, if the size of the video you are going to download from YouTube is larger than 40 MB or if you failed to get a high Internet connection, you can just give this video converter a shot.

Note: Windows Movie Maker needs external codec to decode mp4, xvid and mpeg2 video. To skip this trouble, please select “Customized AVI Movie(*.avi)” profile and adjust “video codec” to “msmpeg4v2″, “video size” to “Original” to get AVI video accepted by Windows Movie Maker.

Part 3. How to put YouTube videos to Windows Movie Maker?

After you get the output video clip downloaded and converted from YouTube, now you can begin to put it into your Windows Movie Maker.

Click on “File”. Then click on “Import into collections”. A window will appear. In the window, navigate to the video clip you downloaded and converted from YouTube just now. Then double click on the file. You’ll see the icon for the file in your Windows Movie Maker “Collections”.

About Windows Movie Maker:

Windows Movie Maker is a totally free program that comes with Windows XP Home Edition, Windows XP Media Center Edition, Windows XP Professional, and Windows Vista (also called Windows DVD Maker). Below are the media formats accepted by Windows Movie Maker:

Video files: .asf, .avi, .wmv

Movie files: MPEG1, .mpeg, .mpg, .mlv, .mp2

Audio files: .wav, .snd, .au, .aif, .aifc, .aiff

Windows media files: .asf, .wm, .wma, .wmv

MP3 format audio: .mp3

Aimersoft Music Converter

Key features: DRM Music Converter + Audio Extractor + Music File Converter.

Conversion theory: Advanced recording technique.

The edge: Support various protected video/audio formats, compatible with 64-bit Windows Vista and Windows 7.

The bad: Unable to output video

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Tunebite

Key features: Removes DRM from audio/music and video/movie files + Video Converter + Audio Converter.

Conversion theory: Records music, films and videos from the Internet, subscription services and online video stores.

The edge: Includes 100 playback formats and an editor to customize settings for every at home and portable device.

The bad: The conversion speed is a little bit slow.

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Daniusoft Media Converter Ultimate

Key features: DRM Removal + Video Converter + Audio Converter + DVD Ripper + DVD Burner + Media Transfer.

Conversion theory: Records play and save the recording.

The edge: Allows you to burn DRM protected video/movie files to DVD.

The bad: Too many features may be very confusing.

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NoteBurner Audio Converter

Key features: DRM Music Converter + Audio Converter.

Conversion theory: The generated virtual CD drive.

The edge: The smart virtual CD burning technique.

The bad: Unable to input DRM video, unable to ouput video, incompatible with 64-bit Windows Vista and Windows 7

SoundTaxi Pro+VideoRip

Key features: DRM Removal + Audio Converter + Video converter.

Conversion theory: Recording.

The edge: Output video/audio copy to iPod feature.

The bad: Very limited output video/audio formats.

Clone2Go Free YouTube Video Downloader and Converter for Mac is a piece of free software specially designed for Mac OS X users to download and convert online YouTube videos as FLV, 3GP or MP4 files. You can follow the steps below to learn how to download YouTube videos to iPod nano, iPod classic, iPod touch on Mac OS X for free with the help of this freeware Mac YouTube Downloader.

Step 1. Download Clone2Go Free YouTube Downloader for Mac, install and run it.

Note: This Free Mac YouTube Downloader is compatible with Intel based Mac OS X 10.5 or above. Below is its main interface:

Step 2. Add YouTube videos

Visit YouTube.com and open the YouTube videos you’d like to play on your iPod. Copy the video link from the address bar of your browser.

Paste the link to the “Video Link:” box and click the “+Add” button, then it will be added to the manager panel at the top of the interface. To add more videos, just copy and paste the link to the the box and click the “+Add” button again. Then there will be a list of URL of Videos showing in the manager panel.

Note: You can click the “-Remove” button to remove the links you don’t want.

Step 3. Specify output format and output folder

To download YouTube videos for viewing on iPod, choose “MP4″ from the “Output Format” options. Tick the “HD MP4 if it is available” download YouTube HD videos as HD MP4 files for your iPod.

Click the “…” button to locate to the folder you want to output the downloaded YouTube videos to.

Note: After the downloading and conversion process, you can click the “Folder” button to locate this folder and get the output videos.

Step 4. Start to Download

Click the “Download” button to start downloading and converting YouTube videos to iPod. When the downloading begins, the downloading process is clearly shown in the manager panel. You can also get the video information such Title, Duration, File Size, etc from the manager panel. You can also terminate the downloading and converting process by clicking the “Stop” button.

Note: The video size of the output files may not fit the screen of your iPod. In this case, you can upgrade Clone2Go Free YouTube Downloader for Mac to Clone2Go Video Converter Professional for Mac and import the output videos into the program. From the “Profile” drop-down list, choose “Apple iPod Nano/Classic MPEG-4 Movie (*.mp4) as the output format to convert the output video files for playback on iPod.

Step 5. Sync output video files to iPod

Launch iTunes. Click “File -> Add to Library…” to import the output video files to iTunes libary. Then you can sync them to your iPod.

Question:
I recently got one Sony HDR-XR200V Camcorder I want to convert the files from m2ts to MKV I have SONY Vegas but MKV Vegas isn’t there. I basically want to convert m2ts file into a more common video formats, how to do?

Answer:
Dear, there are three logical possibilities for your reference. The biggest consideration is the software or hardware you’re using to watch the movies on.
If you plan on watching the video using software like XBMC, VLC, etc., you should be fine either way; if you plan on using Power DVD, or another Blu-ray player software, you should stick to m2ts.
If you use a stand-alone device like a HTPC, Popcorn Hour or a Western Digital player, you’ll probably have better compatibility with the mkv container .here I would like to recommend you to try this m2ts to mkv converter.

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M2TS is a Sony high definition video file type. M2TS files are raw AVCHD videos recorded using Sony’s camcorders, such as the HDR-SR1 and HDR-SR5 models. Panasonic, Canon and other brands of AVCHD camcorders also record in M2TS format. It is based on the MPEG-2 transport stream container and is also known as BDAV MPEG-2 transport stream. This format is commonly used for high definition video on Blu-ray Disc and AVCHD.

Why need to convert m2ts to mkv?

As we known,m2ts and mkv are both containers; they have no bearing on the amount of compression used.I believe an m2ts taken from a Blu-ray or AVCHD disk is going to be a bit bigger than an mkv with the same contents, because the m2ts contains extra file structure information that you don’t need. Additionally, when repacking an m2ts into an mkv, people usually remove any audio streams they don’t want. There’s no point in keeping a French dub of an American film if you can’t speak French. If you want to use a stand-alone device like a HTPC, Popcorn Hour or a Western Digital player, you’ll probably have better compatibility with the mkv container.

Here gives you the efficient and easy tutorial for converting AVCHD M2TS to MKV video, You can import MTS/M2TS files for converting to files of other popular video formats for share.

Here is the step by step tutorial for the program:

Step 1: Get MTS/M2TS files from HD Video camera/camcorder to PC.
Connect the HD video camera/ camcorders to your PC with a USB cable. Once connected and powered on, the camcorder should appear on the desktop as a new disk. It is desirable that you copy the videos to your PC’s hard-drive before converting or editing it.

Step 2: Free download Wondershare Video Converter Platinum install and run it.

Step 3: Add the MTS/M2TS file, this converter support batch conversion

Step 4: Customize output setting
Choose the format you’d like to get. There is a list of output formats. You could easily find the MKV format as below.

In order to set advanced audio and video parameter, please click setting. Here you can set video size, frame rate, aspect ratio, audio channel etc. If you want to crop the 16:9 video to 4:3 for standard definition conversion, choose 640*480 in the dropdown list of size

Step 5: Edit your M2TS files (option)
This M2TS Video Converter can help you set video brightness, contrast, saturation, crop video, trim video and even merge multiple files into one single file before the conversion.

Step 6: Start the conversion
Click the “start” button to start conversion and then the conversion is on processing. After a while, the convert m2ts to MKV job is finished successfully. You can view your converted files by press the “Find Target” button.

All the conversion takes me 25 minutes with 700 M2TS videos and the conversion speed often depend on the original video site and your PC configuration. The conversion speed and output quality seem perfect, it is really worth to use this video converter to convert files from m2ts to mkv.

P.s With this program, you can not only convert m2ts to MKV, but also convert popular video formats includes m2ts to AVI, WMV, ASF, MPEG, MP4, MOV, 3GP, VOB, FLV, WMA, MP3, AAC, WAV, etc.

What is DRM?

Digital Rights Management, or DRM, is a class of technologies that allow rights owners to set and enforce terms by which people use their intellectual property. Most often media companies use DRM to curb piracy of their content by restricting users’ ability to play it, copy it, download it, burn it, and so on.

What are the problems with DRM?

The problem is the competing DRM systems among different manufacturers are not compatible. For examples, Apple’s iTunes won’t work on anything but the iPod, iPhone, iPad. The songs you bought from Real Music Store can only be copied to 5 computers, burned 5 times. Plus, Real’s music won’t work on open MP3 players. How about burning a song to CD? Napster’s DRM requires you to cough up 99 cents more. And what if you want to mix a song snippet with a home movie? Forget it! The DRM forbids that entirely. So, most people are encountering with the problem: how to break DRM protection from those DRM protected contents.

How to break DRM protection from iTunes, Windows, Rhapsody, Amazon, BBC iPlayer?

Is that really impossible to find a simple way to break DRM protection from protected M4A, M4P, M4V, WMA, WMV, ASF, and AAC? How to break DRM protection from iTunes, Windows, Rhapsody, Napster, Amazon, and BBC iPlayer? Any tips out there for you to break DRM protection from the video or music you legally downloaded or paid? Does there exist a good program to break DRM protection from those protected files?

The above questions all lead to positive answers, and I believe breaking DRM protection is your ideal solution to enjoy your movie and music already paid! And I’d like to suggest Daniusoft Media Converter Ultimate as your useful tool to break DRM protection from iTunes, Windows, Rhapsody, Amazon, BBC, etc. following is step by step tutorial to break DRM protection from M4A, M4V, WMA, WMV, iTunes, Windows, etc.

Download Daniusoft Media Converter Ultimate, install and run it.

1. Click the ‘Add’ button to import the files you need to break or convert, or the drag and drop will do the same thing.

2. Select the proper audio and video formats like MP3, MP4, AVI, FLV, OGG, APE, AC3 as your output format.

3. Hit ‘Start’ to break DRM protection from M4A, M4P, M4V, WMA, WMV, ASF, AAC, etc.

Then Daniusoft Media Converter Ultimate will automatically break DRM protection from your select files and convert them to plain file formats as you want.

You can break DRM protection with Media Converter Ultimate, what else can it do for you?

Media Converter Ultimate can not only enable you to break DRM protection, but also a media converter, media transfer, DVD ripper, and DVD burner.

1. You could use Ultimate to break DRM protection and do the conversion task between common files and even HD video. It is a small cake for Ultimate to convert MOD Video files to AVI WMV MPEG MP4 MOV VOB FLV, etc.

2. It enables you to transfer movie or music to your portable media players, for example you can enjoy your iTunes music and video on PSP and PSP GO.

3. Ultimate is also capable of ripping DVD so that you can watch DVD movies on Google Nexus One or other Android Phones to make more fun.

4. You could also burn DVDs for backups through this Media Converter Ultimate.

Enjoy Daniusoft Media Converter Ultimate to break DRM protection for you, and bathe yourself in this massive platform which is a genuine Ultimate program.

AVI stands for Audio Video Interleave. It is a special case of the RIFF (Resource Interchange File Format). AVI is defined by Microsoft. Audio Video Interleaved (AVI) files are a common format for compressed video clips. Files downloaded from the internet often use this format.
While movies downloaded from the internet and videos recorded with digital camcorders are always AVI format, how to convert AVI to DVD and burn AVI video to DVD disc so that you can watch AVI video and movie on a standard DVD player is an important question for most of us.

How to Burn AVI to DVD on Mac?

Step1. Download and Install AVI to DVD Burner
Professional AVI to DVD Burner Mac can help you to burn AVI Videos to DVD on Mac.

Step2. Load AVI Video
Click “Add” button to load AVI videos or movies to the program from your hard drive.

Step3. Edit AVI Video
You can trim and crop the added AVI video files and adjust the effects before burning the AVI videos to DVD on Mac OS X.
You also can add or edit the DVD Menu of the AVI Video files.

Step4. Burn AVI Video to DVD

After burning finished, you can play the dvd from avi videos on your DVD player.

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It can help iPhone users easily transfer iPhone contacts and contact photos from iPhone to computer and keep them safe on the computer.

The following are easy steps on backing up your iPhone contacts and contact photos.

Step 1:Free Download Tansee iPhone Transfer Contact, and install it on your computer (skip if done yet).

Step 2: Connect iPhone to your computer.

Step 3: Launch this iPhone Contact backup
software, your contacts on iphone memory will display as shown in your iPhone screen automatically as fig 1.

Fig 1

Note: Click on certain name, all contact infomation will display as fig 2 shown.

Fig2

Step 4-a: In Fig 1 situation, you can click button “Copy ALL Contacts” to copy contacts from your iPhone , then select options:

1: Choose File Type: back up to TXT file or ANTC file;

2: Choose File Path: where to store the backup file; You can change the backup path if you do not use default path.

3: Advanced Option: if you choose ANTC format in step 1, you can add a password to protect the file. Note: Only you know the password, so please do remember it.
Click OK Button to finish the Copy. See Fig 3.

Note: You can only copy the first 5 contacts in trial version. Click HERE to purchase now.

Fig 3

Step 4-b: In fig 2 situation, click button “Copy Contact From who” to copy contact of a single person, select options:

1: Choose File Type: You can only select TXT file format in single contact transfer;

2: Choose File Path: where to store the backup file, do nothing if you choose default path;

3: Advanced Option: Disabled in single contact transfer.

Click OK Button to finish the Copy. See fig 4.

Note you can only copy the first 5 contacts in trial version. Click HERE to purchase now.

Fig 4

In brief, this handy iPhone Contacts backup offers the best way to backup iPhone contacts to computer. It will help
you a lot when you want to backup/manage your contacts and contact photos from iPhone to your computer.
You can get its full version now HERE at a very competitive price.
Learn more details here.

Hope these could help you manage your iPhone contacts well.

Step1. In order to transfer the video computer, you have to enable iPod disk use at first. Plug in your iPod Nano to computer, run iTunes and select the iPod in the device list, go to the Summary tab. Then you will see the “Enable disk use”, check it and click the Apply button. It’s the same for Mac user to enable iPod disk use.

Step2. Because iTunes prevent you copying the non-purchased file from iPod to computer, you need an iPod transfer software to copy the iPod video, I have tried many iPod transfers, and this iPod transfer works best for the iPod Nano recorded video. I have scanned it with Norton Virus Protector, it’s safe without any virus and spyware. Download and install it, connect your iPod to computer. Then run the iPod Transfer, it will search the iPod automatically; and all files on iPod will return in a list.

Step3. Choose the recorded video that you want to transfer, and click “Export” to begin the transfer; it can help you copy the recorded video to computer or iTunes, that’s all. You can also use it to transfer music and photos from iPod to computer, it’s really use when your computer crashed and you lost all the files. If you are Mac user, this iPod transfer also has Mac version, the operation is the same, enable the iPod disk use at first, then choose the recorded videos and export them to your Mac.

Once you transfer the video from iPod to computer successfully. the iPod recorded video is H.264 video, and YouTube, MySpace, Facebook both support AVI and MPEG video. If you want to upload the recorded video to YouTube, Myspace or Facebook. You have to convert the video to the right format at first. I have tried many video converters, and this video converter works best for the iPod recorded video.

Download and install the video converter, then click “Open File” to import your iPod recorded video, click the profile to choose the “AVI – Audio Video Interleaved (.avi)“, and then click “Convert”, it will take a few minutes to convert the video. And the converted video will save in C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\My Documents\Cucusoft\ConverterOutput
Then you can log in YouTube and upload the video, done.

That’s true, iTunes dose offer audio conversion, but it is restricted to certain formats, such as MP3, AIFF, WAV, AAC, how about the rest audio and video? And it’s true, the latest QuickTime 7 Pro can help you convert your home movies to a format that iPod understands, but it is not free and requires additional $29.99.

Is there any way to convert video to iPod for free?

You must want to know whether there is any way to put videos in various format to iPod. Indeed, there is. You can use free Video to iPod Converter to help you convert videos to your iPod accepted videos. Thanks for givewayoftheday.com, which allows every user to free download fully-licensed software every day, you can get Free Wondershare Video to iPod Converter on 7th, Feb, 2010.

The free download of this Video to iPod Converter is only available for 24 hours on 7th, Feb, 2010 at http://www.giveawayoftheday.com.

What can this free Wondershare Video to iPod Converter do for you?

True to its name, this Video to iPod Converter can help you convert all most all kinds of videos, including Youtube videos, torrent videos, etc, you have downloaded from Internet, to your iPod recognized MP4, M4V and MOV formats.

This free Wondershare iPod Video Converter is extremely easy-to-use: Just queue up the videos or tracks you want to convert, choose iTunes recognized MP4 as output format and destination, and click Start. Besides, you can use this iPod converter edit videos with ease. As for how to convert and split audio, you can get the user’s guide at Wondershare’s official website at http://www.dvd-ripper-copy.com/video-to-iPod.html.

BTY, this free iPod Converter downloaded today from Givewayoftheday.com offers users opportunity to upgrade this it to an all-in-one DVD/Video Converter Ultimate with only $19.95(70% off), which offers you total freedom to rip DVDs, convert between videos and burn videos to DVDs.

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There is no better way to convey your love than to give your hand-made gifts since they are always created with time, talent and more than anything else – love. And review your days while do the creation. How about creating a unique video to say “I LOVE YOU”?

It means a lot to receive a personalized video for a special gift on this Valentine`s Day. If you have no idea of how to do with it, here are some ideas for special Valentines gifts, check out the following three most creative videos and do the creation with your source of imagination.

What you need before made a homemade Valentines Day Gifts
1. Some beautiful pictures, photos or videos of your lover in
2. some Confession that’s catchy and that uses colloquial English
3. Photo editor and Video tools, Such as Photoshop, Windows Movie and DVD Video Converter

Here is the video I made for my girlfriend:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4A-5FnZi0Fg

Confession Video

Wanna confess your love to her on this Valentine`s Day? Create a confession video that she will never expect as Valentine`s gift to show your love to her/him on this special day. Thanks to the convenience of Internet, you can easily access to tons of music videos from free download sites. Just select one music video of her favorite from your DVD collection or merge several clips into one and add your picture watermark or text watermark like “I LOVE YOU” and whatever you want to say on the video to decorate your video. Just create it with your imagination.

After you finish the creation of the video, you can transfer the confession video to iPod with iTunes or other devices. You can also free download some iPod Valentine theme to enrich your iPod. And give her a surprise on this Valentine`s Day.

Proposal Video

If you love her, then do propose to her. Valentine`s Day is a perfect timing for you. But what should you do? There is nothing special if you ask her to marry you with a diamond ring and a bunch of flowers. How about a proposal video on YouTube? It would be so exciting to declare your love to the whole world on YouTube. Now, what you need to do is to create a proposal video. Trim the classic proposal clips from your DVD collection or from the movies you downloaded from Internet, record your own proposal video and merge them into one. And the last step is to upload your proposal video onto YouTube. And I am sure that you will get the positive answer of “Yes!”

Memorial Video

You are an old couple has gone through so many days that you even don`t say “I LOVE YOU” to her/him. But never forget to show your love to her/him on this Valentine`s Day. That couldn’t be better than to review your days that you have gone through with the memorial video. You can select the unforgettable moments from your videos on birthday party, family party or on vacation, merge them into one and burn it to DVD. It must be the most creative gift on this Valentine`s Day.

To create these videos, you might need a multifunctional video editor to help you get these done. It can not only work as a video converter that converts videos to YouTube video and iPod format, but also a DVD Ripper that rips DVD to various formats and a DVD Burner that burns various video to DVD. Can all these functions be incorporated in one program? Of course yes. Aimersoft Video Converter Ultimate is just such a program that can satisfy all your needs. With Ultimate, you can get all solutions for your multimedia demands, from videos converting, video editing, DVD ripping to DVD burning.