Friday, May 12, 2017

MP4 Files Not Working in Cyberlink PowerDirector

Cyberlink claims that PowerDirector offer native support for MP4 format. The point here, sometimes still you will find it a painful experience to import MP4 files to PowerDirector (PD 15 Ultra/Ultimate/Ultimate Suite/Director Suite included) for editing. And there are frequently asked questions quoted below:

"Cannot import .mp4 into CyberLink PowerDirector 15 Ultra. I specifically checked the import formats of this software before I bought it, but now I cannot import them and the program cites an "unsupported format" error. Very frustrated and confused."

"I got a bunch of video recordings in .MP4 format that from my GoPro Hero 3 and Sony PMW-EX3. Whereas, when I wanna edit those MP4 footage in PowerDirector before sharing with my friends, I met problems: PD handled with the MP4 files so slowly and some files even couldn't be recognized. I couldn't edit my videos smoothly."


Actually, this is probably due to the MP4 file codec. CyberLink PowerDirector might not work with some MP4 files sometimes due to the codec issue or other reasons. Fortuantely, there is an easy way to fix the issue. To get PowerDirector work well with MP4 videos, you could adjust MP4 to PowerDirector supported video format. 

Along with some help from third-party software like Dimo Video Converter Ultimate (Windows 10 included), you can easily get the problem solved. With it, you can transcode MP4 to PD native editing-friendly format - MPEG-2/H.264 - ensuring maximum editing quality and efficiency when working with PowerDirector 15/14/13. An Avid preset is included for easy access. 

Meanwhile, this video app enables you to change MP4 to editable format for Pinnacle Studio, Adobe Premiere Pro, Sony Vegas, Windows Movie Maker, Avid Studio, Magix Movie Edit Pro, Camtasia Studio, GoPro Studio and more other NLEs. Now download the program and follow the step-by-step gudie below to convert MP4 files to MPEG-2/H.264 for smoothly editing in PowerDirector.


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Guide: Transcoding MP4 to PowerDirector for natively editing

Step 1. Install and launch MP4 Video Converter on your PC, and then import MP4 files to the converter.


Step 2. Click "Select Format" bar and choose "Editor > Adobe Premiere" as output format on the drop-down menu. Of course, you can also choose MPEG-2, MPEG-4, WMV from "Format > Video" or "Format > HD Video" as the output format.

Step 3. Click "Settings" button if you'd like to customize advanced audio and video parameters like Video Codec, aspect ratio, bit rate, frame rate, Audio codec, sample rate, audio channels. Here you are recommended to select MPEG-2 or H.264 from video encoder. Besides, this Mac MP4 video converter has some simple edit functions like cropping, trimming, adding effects/watermark etc. so you can touch up the video with basic video editing functions.


Step 4. Click "Start" button to start transcoding MP4 files to PowerDirector. With the MP4 to PowerDirector converter, you can easily encode MP4 files to CyberLink PowerDirector for editing. 

This software runs fast, so you can convert your source MP4 footages to PD in less time, and video and audio synchronization is perfectly guaranteed. After the conversion is completed, get the resulted files via clicking the Open button and then you can import converted MOV or MPG files to PowerDirector 15/14/13/12 for further editing without any hassle.

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Monday, May 8, 2017

Convert H.265 videos with Software Better than FFmepg

FFmpeg is a fantastic open source tool to convert, stream audio and video. While, there are some FFmpeg errors frequently reported by users, which makes it difficult for FFmpeg to snag the top spot in the industry. For example, FFmpeg can not handle H.265/HEVC well: crashed; so long time conversion… In a case like this, a great FFmpeg alternative to encode H.265/HEVC videos is strongly needed.


If you haven't got an ideal one, you can get Dimo Video Converter Ultimate to have a try. It is an all-in-one H.265 decoder, encoder, converter, editor, player and media server. It allows people to convert or downscale 4K videos with H.265/HEVC to common video files including H.264, MPEG-4, MPEG-2, DivX, XviD, WMV, MKV... without quality loss. Plus, with it you can fast convert non-H.265 videos to H.265 seamlessly. Apart from that, its built-in editor can help users to do some basic editing work before conversion, like trimming, cutting, adding audio information/watermark etc. 

Better than FFmepg, the faster and versatile FFmpeg alternative can fast share videos, movies and TV shows from computer to any device wirelessly once they are connected to the same network. It's easy to use, 100% clean, no ads, no plugin, no spam. If you are a Mac(OS Sierra) user, please turn to Dimo Video Converter Ultimate for Mac. Download the alternative to FFmpeg and start encoding H.265 videos.


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How to use FFMPEG Alternative to Convert H.265/HEVC videos 

1. Import H.265 files 

Launch Dimo Video Converter Ultimate first. To import the local videos you want, you can click the "Add file" button. A pop-up window will lead you to locate your local files. Or you can directly drag the videos you want from your PC to this program.  


2. Select output format you want 

Click the "Select Format" icon, and then go to the right category to find the video format you want. As you can see, various video formats like MP4, MOV, MKV, FLV, WMV, AVI, etc. are provided. You can also choose the icon of iPhone, iPad, iPod, Samsung, Android, TV, VR, YouTube, Facebook, Sony Vegas, Windows Movie Maker, etc. to get videos with best settings for the selected device/software. 


Tip: If you want to customize the output video quality, you can click the "Settings" button to open the Settings window and set video resolution, frame rate, bit rate, codec, etc. 


3. Edit your video files with an alternative FFMPEG (optional) 

If necessary, you can perhaps try to edit your video files with the video converter Mac. Nothing unfamiliar from the FFMPEG, you can also easily cut and trim your videos. In addition to that, you can add effects to your video clips together with the insertion of watermarks as well as create 3D videos. 


4. Start H.265 video conversion

Click the "Start" button to start converting H.265 videos under Windows (10) or Mac(OS Sierra). You can follow the conversion process. Once the task bar shows in 100%, just click Open button to locate the output files. Hence, you can now transfer and play your H.265 video files anywhere and anytime you like it. 

External Knowledge: Other FFmpeg Alternatives

1. x265

x2645 is a good FFmpeg alternative, worth a download. The free alternative to FFmpeg developed by VideoLAN is designed as a H.265 video converter to encode video streams to H.265/MPEG-H HEVC compression format. It works great for HD 4K UHD H.265 video conversion.  

2. avconv

avconv is a faster video and audio converter. Cross-platform avconv can convert between arbitrary sample rates and resize video audio file in a simple way.  

3. MEncoder

MPlayer media player uses MEncoder to transcode audio and video stream. The FFmpeg alternative can convert all the video audio formats that MPlayer reads to various formats in different codecs without decreasing much video image quality.

Verdict: Among all the FFmpeg alternatives, Dimo Video Converter Ultimate delivers the fastest performances, outputs the highest quality, and boasts more features than FFmpeg or other similar FFmpeg programs do. avconv, x265, MEncoder are the open source tools closest to FFmpeg. Its basic video editing options give itself some advantages over other FFmpeg alternatives. avconv is FFmpeg alternative faster than FFmpeg, while x265 is mainly used to encode H.265 video when FFmpeg fails to convert H.265 video, and MEncoder is the best if you have MPlayer media player installed. 

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Best Blu-ray Main Movie to M2TS Backup Solution

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story is finally out on Blu-ray and the movie itself is fantastic. If you're a fan of Rogue One, this is something you gotta follow. That's how to copy your main Blu-ray Movie to m2ts for saving on hard drive in case of damage or theft. In this page, we will give you the solution to directly copying main movie from a Blu-ray disc into m2ts without extras to take up space. 


Requirement: Dimo Video Converter Ultimate for Mac, which is all-in-one Blu-ray ripping and Blu-ray backup software. 

It is an easy-to-use program, which just needs several clicks to complete Blu-ray main movie copying on Mac (OS Sierra included). With it, you can copy the latest commercial Blu-ray to hard drive with only containing the main feature (movie) of the DVD, and leave out unwanted menus or other extras. Besides, applying the Blu-ray ripping software, all commercial protected Blu-ray movies can be ripped to nearly all popular video and audio formats like MP4, MOV, MKV (lossless mkv included), WMV, AAC, MP3 as you need for playback on different media devices. Even copying Blu-ray to ISO for saving on HDD is allowed.

If you are on Windows PC (Windows 10 included), Dimo Video Converter Ultimate is right for you. Download the right version and follow the step-by-step tutorial. (P.S: If you wanna make a Blu-ray backup keeping exactly the original file structure without anything changed, please turn to how to 1:1 make Blu-ray full disc copy) 

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How to Copy Rogue One Blu-ray Main Movie to M2TS without extras

Step 1: Select Rogue One Blu-ray source.

When launch the best Blu-ray to M2TS backup software, click "Add Blu-ray" button to load your inserted Blu-ray disc or Blu-ray folder. Once imported, you will get a list of titles on the source.


Step 2: Click Directly Copy and set output folder

Firstly, go to select the location of output files. Simply click "..." button and choose the destination folder. Secondly, click "Direct Copy" and it will copy the intact main movie without any recoding and you will get a lossless m2ts file at amazing conversion speed.


Step 3: Lossless Backup Rogue One Blu-ray main movie to M2TS

Now it is time to start backing up Blu-ray to M2TS without encoding by clicking "Start" button. When the copying work is done, you are able to click "Open" button to get the output .m2ts files without any other extra contents. As the generated M2TS file is intact backup of Rogue One Blu-ray main movie, so it will retain all the multiple audio and subtitle tracks. You can play M2TS with 8K Player for Mac?or VLC, and you can also compress the M2TS to a smaller-size file and transcode to a more efficient format like MP4, MOV, AVI with Dimo Video Converter Ultimate for Mac. 

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Wednesday, May 3, 2017

Tricks Importing MP4 to PlayStation 4 Smoothly

Although the official site has announced Sony PlayStation 4 can support MP4 files, you still find some MP4 files fail to play on the device. That's because it only supports an MP4 file with the video codec of MPEG-4 AVC H.264 and MPEG-4. However, different MP4 files tends to have different video codecs and the codecs which might not be compatible with the console. To play those incompatible MP4 files on PS4, the easy solution is to convert MP4 to PS4's supported formats, and then transfer the converted files via USB.


To finish the task, you can adopt Dimo Video Converter Ultimate. It can help you convert MP4 into the supported formats of PS4. Other format videos like MKV, VOB, FLV, MOV, F4V, MXF, AVCHD, MTS, ASF, etc. can also be converted with Dimo.

Get the Best MP4 to PS4 Video Converter:

* Fast Conversion with best quality: Flawless conversion of media files with best quality standards within seconds.

*  Library of Presets: Flexible & category-wise profiles allows you to switch media files from one file format into another with more than 150 presets including PS4 Pro, PS4, PS3, Xbox 360, Xbox One, Xbox One S.

* Offers Core Editing TOOLS: It is equipped with advanced video editing function like extracting audio, cropping video, splitting video, trimming, adjust effects, add watermarks/effects, change bit rate or frame rate etc.

*  Export local movies via wifi: One-click to share Videos from computer to iPhone, iPad, Android, TV, etc wirelessly.

* Make ISO files: Turn video folder or Blu-ray to ISO files for backup or playing freely

*  Compatible Windows 10/8.1/8/7/XP/Vista, as well as macOS 10.12 Sierra, 10.11 El Capitan, 10.10 Yosemite, 10.9 Mavericks, 10.8 Mountain Lion and 10.7 Lion, etc.

For Mac users, Dimo Video Converter Ultimate Mac is also a helpful app to encode MP4 videos to PS4 on Mac for further usage. Just get the right version according to your computer's OS and follow the step-by-step guide below to convert MP4 files to PS4 smoothly.


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How to convert and stream MP4 to PS4

Step 1. Load MP4 files

First, run this smart MP4 to PS4 video converter and then import your local MP4 files by either clicking "Add file" button in the top-left corner of the interface or drag-and-drop the MP4 files you want from your local directory. It's illustrated in the screenshot below.


Step 2. Select output format

Now click the "Select Format" icon to reveal output panel, then move mouse cursor to "Device > Game" category to Select PS4 as the output format. PS4 won't play MP4 sometimes or there is only video or audio when people play MP4 files in PS4. Why? That's because PS4 only supports this kind of MP4:

- Visual: H.264/MPEG-4 AVC High Profile Level4.2
- Audio: AAC LC, AC-3 (Dolby Digital)

Tip: By clicking the Settings icon, you can adjust video and audio parameters like codec, bit rate, frame rate, sample rate, etc., in that way, you can take charge of the size and quality of the output files. In principle, the larger input values, the better output quality, but the corresponding larger file size.


Step 3. Start converting MP4 to PS4

At this point, you can change the output filename or output path if you wish. If you feel satisfied with your options, Just hit the "Start" button to activate MP4 file to PS4 conversion. When all conversions completed, you'll get a pop-up notice. Just click "Open", you can fast find where your converted files are saved. Now you can transfer incompatible MP4 files on PS4 via streaming or the help of a USB storage and enjoy them without any hassles.

How to Transfer videos to PS4 Via USB

First, insert a USB drive into your computer, copy the converted MP4 onto it.

Second, insert the USB drive into USB port of PS4, then go to the main menu, select "Video" and find your USB Drive, select "Display All" to show the video files on the USB drive. Please choose the file that you want to transfer and press the triangle button, choose "Copy" and confirm, the movie will be transferred to your PS4 hard drive, then you can play it.

P.S.

Sony PS4 is equipped with 4K resolution, eight-core X86 AMD Jaguar CPU, 8GB of GDDR5 memory, built-in 500GB hard disk drive, read only Blu-ray drive and even video streaming function, you can get better enjoyment with the improvement of hardware.

Though the truth that the PS4 will not be able to play 4K Blu-ray movies which may disappoint you, you can still take advantage of Video Converter Ultimate to convert videos and movies you like to play on PS4.

Other possible solutions for PS4 MP4 Playback issues:

1. Make sure your USB storage devices are in FAT and exFAT formats. PS4 doesn't recognize NTFS which means you can't play videos larger than 4GB. So reduce video size or split videos if need be, meanwhile, you have to convert NTFS to FAT32 or exFAT.

2. Create a folder and place all your videos into it when using a USB storage device so that your PS4 system can recognize and read them, otherwise you won't see anything. No specific folder name required for videos, but audio needs to be in a folder named "Music".

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Tricks Importing MKV to Camtasia Studio 9/8 Smoothly

Camtasia Studio is professional screen recording and video editing software on Windows/Mac computer. It can merge, split, trim, crop, edit and create videos to share with others. Even though Camtasia Studio has been upgraded to 9.0.0 two months ago, users still fail to import videos to Camtasia Studio like MKV which are downloaded from Internet, because of MKV incompatibility with Camtasia. So how can you make .mkv files editable in Camtasia Studio (9, 8)?


How to get MKV Videos Imported by Camtasia Studio?

According to Techsmith support website, Camtasia Studio supports AVI, .WMV, MPEG-1, .MP3, .WAV, .WMA, MP4, MTS/M2TS and .MOV (QuickTime) files. In order to import MKV files to Camtasia Studio, it is necessary to ask how to convert MKV to formats like MOV, MPEG-1, etc. which are supported by Camtasia. Along with some help from third-party video converter software, it can be done effortlessly. 

To do that, you can use Dimo Video Converter Ultimate, this software can deal with almost all kinds of MKV videos. With it, users can effortlessly transcode (SD/HD/4K, H.264/H.265, 2D/3D) MKV files for smoothly editing in Camtasia Studio. What's more, it can generates more optimal editing formats/codecs for you to use in different NLE apps, such as Adobe Premiere Pro, Sony Vegas, Avid Media Composer, Windows Movie Maker and more. 

For Mac users, please get Dimo Video Converter Ultimate for Mac. If you're interested in doing likewise, check out the guide below to transcode MKV files to Camtasia Studio natively supported formats so that you can make engaging movies with your MKV clips.

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[Quick workaround] Transcode MKV to Camtasia Studio 9/8 Friendly Format  

1. Add MKV files

Run the MKV converter for Camtasia and click "Add file" button to import the MKV files. As you can see, you can also drag and drop the media to the program's main interface.


2. Choose output format

Click "Select Format" bar and choose "MPEG-1" or "QuickTime MOV" from "Format > Video", which can be recognized by Camtasia. 

The following formats are able to be imported into Camtasia Studio for editing & production:

AVI, WMV, MPEG-1

MOV (QuickTime for Windows must be installed for MOV import.)   

MTS and M2TS files. (Version 8.4 and later)  You will need the AC-3 Filter if running Windows 7 or Winodws 8.0.  

MP4 (AVC/h.264 at no more than 30 frames per second)

MP3,WAV,WMA 

Tips: 

a. Click the Settings icon to adjust video and audio parameters on the Profile Setting as you need to get the best quality video since Camtasia Studio 9, 8 is optimized for high definition video editing.  


b. To make a highlight video out of downloaded MKV before converting, you can do some trimmings first:

To start with, click the “Edit” button. In the new video editor, find the “trim” tab, in the timeline, set the start time point and the end time point in the "start" and "end" boxes. And, finally click the “OK” button to finish editing. You can also change your new clip length by clicking “Delete” button. Also you are able to merge many separate trimmed segments into one.

3: Starting converting MKV files

Simply click the "Start" button to start converting MKV to Camtasia Studio and everything else will be automated. If you have added quite a bunch of video files, it would take some time to convert. You're done. Now your MKV files will be converted into MPEG-1/MOV files ready to be imported to Camtasia Studio beautifully. Then customize and edit into your own video for sharing with your clients, your students or your friends. 

In addition to convert videos like MKV, MXF, MP4, MOV, etc. to Camtasia, Dimo Video Converter Ultimate can also encode Camtasia Studio recorded videos to play and share anywhere you like or even export to MKV as well. Have a try!

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Kindly Note:

The price of Dimo Video Converter Ultimate for Windows is divided into 1 Year Subscription, Lifetime/Family/Business License: $43.95/Year; $45.95/lifetime license; $95.95/family license(2-4 PCs); $189.95/business pack(5-8 PCs). Get your needed one at purchase page.

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