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MacX Video Converter Pro 4: Review & Tutorial

August 9, 2013 / / 1,591 Comments

How to Convert MP4, MOV, MP3, M4A, MKV, FLV & More on Mac: MacX Video Converter Pro

Click here for a free trial download of MacX Video Converter Pro

This is a brief overview and tutorial video over the new version of MacX Video Converter Pro. This is a premium application for the Mac from www.macxdvd.com. If you’re a Mac user and you’re looking to convert video files to to other video file formats or to audio file formats, if you want to record your Mac screen, if you want to create photo slideshows, then this program is for you. You can try it out for free if you click on the link at the top of this video description. That will start an instant download so you can install it and try it out for free. If you like it you can register for the full version later. If you don’t like it you can delete it, but I’m pretty sure you’re going to like this application.

MacX Video Converter Pro 4.0 Features

Let’s quickly look at the main features: HD video converter, fast speed, high quality, records your iSight camera, records your Mac screen so you can make a screencast, or you can remove DRM from videos. It has a photo slideshow maker. You can edit the video and audio files that you’re going to convert. You can trim them, crop them, even add watermarks, and obviously you can convert any video file to an iPhone, iPad, or iPod compatible format. So without further ado let’s open this app up and play with it. Are you excited as I am?

Here’s the home screen of Mac X Video Converter Pro 4.0. On the top menu you can choose from any of the features that we just went over: the video converter, photo slideshow, download YouTube videos, record your iSight, record your Mac screen, and the trash icon clears out all the jobs that are in your queue. Click the first button to add the videos that you want to convert. Let’s say I have an FLV file that I want to convert on my desktop. I’ll just choose that. Now here’s the output profile window. This is where you choose the file format that you want to convert your video to. I have an FLV video, and let’s say I want to convert it to MP3. I can choose “To Music” MP3 recommended. If I want to convert it to an iPhone video file format I can choose Apple device then iPhone video and choose my iPhone model (same with iPad & iPod). You can convert MP4, MP3, FLV, AVI, WMV, MPEG, MPG, MOV, etc. You can do all kinds of stuff, even convert videos to a compatible format for a Microsoft device, Android tablet, Android smartphone, YouTube video, etc.

So let’s just say I want to convert this FLV file to an MP4 video file so I can put it into iTunes. I’ll just choose Mac general video. MP4 video is automatically selected, the recommended option then click Done. The video is now in the queue ready to be converted. If you click Edit you can see all the editing options that you have. You can adjust the volume, subtitles, trim it down. You can adjust the start and end time. You can crop and expand it, and you can even add a text or image watermark. That’s pretty cool. Click Done.

If you have multiple videos that you want to convert you can add more in the queue. Let’s say I want to convert the FLV file to an MP3 file. I can add it again and click the Settings button and change it to MP3. Alright so now I’m converting FLV to MP4 and FLV to MP3. So I’ll just hit Run, and the conversions will start.

When the conversions are complete the window will pop up and it will have your final converted videos in a folder on your Mac. I can add those into iTunes now and put those on my iPhone, iPod, or iPad. You can do that with other devices as well. That’s the main feature of Mac X Video Converter Pro, but it does have extra features as well like we went over earlier. You can make a photo slideshow, download YouTube videos, record your iSight camera, and record your Mac screen. So as you can see this is a very powerful and useful application. If you’re a Mac user and you want to be able to convert any video file, edit and trim converted videos, record your Mac screen, and do all kinds of other cool stuff then this is definitely an app to have. Again the link is at the top of this description. You can click that, and it’ll start an instant download where you can download and try it out for free!

By Andy Slye

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How to Rip a DVD on a Mac Using Leawo DVD Ripper

July 3, 2013 / / 1,613 Comments

How to Rip Any DVD on a Mac with Leawo DVD Ripper

Click here to download the Mac Leawo DVD Ripper

Ever wonder how to copy DVD movies to your Mac and convert them into high quality video files? This video will show you how to do exactly that! This is a quick video on how to rip a DVD on a Mac using Leawo DVD Ripper for Mac. Ripping a DVD is essentially copying a DVD movie onto your computer so you can have a digital copy of any DVD movie stored on your hard drive.

The first thing you want to do is click the video annotation link on the video or click the link at the top of this description, and that will start an instant download of the Leawo DVD Ripper program. It will download to your Downloads folder, and once it’s downloaded just double-click on the ZIP file. It will extract the installer file then double-click on the DMG file. Drag the Leawo Mac DVD Ripper app icon to your Applications folder. Open your Applications folder and go to Leawo DVD Ripper and click to open it up.

Next, insert your DVD movie into your Mac DVD drive. Once the DVD movie is mounted on your desktop, drag and drop it over into the Leawo DVD Ripper application then click OK. It will analyze your DVD and get ready to rip it. After it gets done analyzing the DVD it’ll show up in the queue, and it automatically selects the main movie file so if you just want to rip the full movie file just click OK. If you want to enter the name of the movie you can do so on this page. If you want to change the file format that the movie’s going to be in once it’s ripped onto your Mac, just click the device or file icon. If the DVD is going on a certain device you can select from many types of devices such as an iPod Touch, iPhone, iPad, Android, etc. If you plan on keeping it on your Mac, I suggest choosing HD Video or Common Video then choose the MP4 option.

Now you’re ready to rip the DVD onto your Mac so just hit the Start Convert button, and the DVD ripping process will begin. If you want the application to automatically open the folder where the movie file is located in, you can select Open Output Folder after conversion. The DVD rip will be complete shortly, and the movie file will soon be saved in your Movies folder on your Mac.

That was the short and sweet tutorial on Leawo DVD Ripper for the Mac. Again this application can rip or copy any DVD to your Mac. It’s a useful app to have if you own any DVD video discs, and it’s definitely worth it so check it out.

By Andy Slye

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