Got a HD home movie camcorder already and ready to shoot the coming holiday gathering? We used to burn home movies to DVD for sharing sweet holiday videos with family and friends. However, nowadays more and more people would like to show the world their holiday home movies by uploading the videos to YouTube. It's easy and FREE!
In November 2008, YouTube added an option to watch videos in 720p HD, so the YouTube player was changed from a 4:3 aspect ratio to a widescreen 16:9. With this new feature, YouTube began a switchover to H.264/MPEG-4 AVC as its default video codec. In November 2009, 1080p HD support was added too. As we know, the recommended resolution to upload a HD home movies to YouTube is 1280 x 720, not 1920 x 1080 (1080p). So make sure you've captured HD home movies with 720p resolution.
To upload AVCHD home movies to YouTube, you have to convert the videos to YouTube accepted video formats first. We recommend you to use iFunia AVCHD Converter for Mac to convert AVCHD videos to YouTube compatible video format for uploading.
Before you start, please download, install and launch iFunia AVCHD Converter for Mac.
Step 1: Load video files
Click "Add…" button to select AVCHD M2TS video files. You can add your AVCHD M2TS video by drag-n-drop. And the software has a feature of previewing and playing your AVCHD video files. Simply select a file which you want to preview in the Source File area and click Play button; you can also take snapshot at will to store the image you like.
Step 2: Select output format
Select one or more files in the file list, and select your preferred video format from the Output format drop-down menu. Here we choose MP4-MPEG4 Video File (*.mp4) video, and click the folder icon to specify a directory on your computer to save the output files.
Step 3: Convert
After the above settings, check the needed files to convert in the file list, and click "Start" button on the window to start converting with iFunia AVCHD Converter for Mac.
Step 4: Upload video to YouTube
Once you've finished converting videos to YouTube acceptable format, made sure it's less than 10 minutes, smaller than 2GB in size, you're ready to upload it.
1. Click the Upload videos to YouTube button in the upper-right-hand corner of any YouTube page.
2. Click the "Browse" button to browse for the video file you'd like to upload to our site. Select the file you want to upload.
3. Click the 'Upload Video' button to start the uploading process.
4. As the video file is uploading, enter as much information about your video as possible in the relevant fields (including Title, Description, Tags, and Category). You're not required to provide specific information, but the more information you include, the easier it is for users to find your video!
5. Click the 'Save changes' button to save the updates you've made to the video file.
It can take from a couple minutes to an hour for your video to upload to YouTube. This depends on the file size of your video and the broadband speed of your network.
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Every year as Thanksgiving approaches, I would like to watch a good movie about the holiday; and this year, with the new iPad gadget and iPhone, Watch the best Thanksgiving movies on them will surely make the holiday more colorful. To make different types of videos playable on iPad and iPhone, what you will need is iFunia Video Converter Pro for Mac.
How-To:
Step 1: Add the thanksgiving movies
To watch thanksgiving movies on Mac, iPad and iPhone, you need to download iFunia Video Converter Pro for Mac, install and run it, then click the "Add" button to add thanksgiving movies on your hard drive to iFunia Video Converter. This video converter for Mac supports batch conversion, so you can import and convert several multimedia files at a time.
Step 2: Output Settings of the thanksgiving movies for your iPad and iPhone
Use the "Convert to" on the bottom of the window to control the output format of the thanksgiving movies. There we use the default output settings,H.246 Video(*.mp4), for the thanksgiving movies. You can change the output settings as you need and choose "save to" and then select a folder for the output files. (Advanced users can click the round button next "Audia Quality" to customize output video audio parameters).
Step 3: start converting thanksgiving movies for iPad and iPhone
At last, just click the "Start" button; wait a minute and you can get the video with proper format. In addition, iFunia Video Converter pro for Mac supports auto shut down function, when it's done, the video conversion software will exit by itself and shutdown your computer safely, after this, you are ready to enjoy Thanksgiving movies on Thanksgiving Day. Hope this helps.
Note: If you are using Windows, please go to iFunia Video Converter Pro for Windows
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Every year as Thanksgiving approaches, I would like to watch a good movie about the holiday; and this year, with the new iPad gadget, Watch the best Thanksgiving movies on iPad will surely make the holiday more colorful. The below are five films that have a Thanksgiving weekend release date and can be packed into your iPad to truly enrich your holiday life.
Part I. Top 5 best Thanksgiving movies
1. Tangled
Genre: Animation/Comedy/Family/Musical
Starring: Kristin Chenoweth, Dan Fogler, David Schwimmer
Release date: Wed 24, Nov 2010
2. Burlesque
Genre:Drama/Musical
Starring: Cher, Christina Aguilera, Eric Dane, Kristen Bell, Stanley Tucci, Kristen Bell, Cam Gigandet.
Release Date: November 24, 2010
3. Love and Other Drugs
Genre: Comedy/Romance
Starring: Jake Gyllenhaal, Anne Hathaway, Oliver Platt, Hank
Release Date: November 24, 2010
4. Faster
Genre: Action
Starring: Dwayne Johnson, Billy Bob Thornton, Carla Gugino
Release Date: November 24, 2010
5. Nutcracker 3D
Genre: Fantasy/Family
Starring: Elle Fanning, Nathan Lane, Charlie Rowe, John Turturro, Frances de la Tour
Release date: Wed 24, Nov 2010
Part II. The way to watch the best Thanksgiving movies on iPad
Having problems with DVD movies, video clips, TV shows and music files not compatible with your iPad? iFunia DVD to iPad converter has ready-to-use presets for your iPad which enables you to convert the Thanksgiving movies to your iPad in just minutes. The simple instructions below will guide you through the easy step of the way.
Step1. Run iFunia DVD to iPad Converter on your computer and load the Thanksgiving movie disc by click the "Load" button.
Now get your Thanksgiving movie disc and insert it. Then run iFunia DVD to iPad Converter on your Mac and click the big button "Load..." to load your Thanksgiving movie disk, you may see the name of Thanksgiving movie disk if you insert DVD disk before running this DVD ripper tool (see the image below to have an idea). This may take up to a minute or two depending on the contents of the DVD and the speed of your optical drive.
Step2. Choose the right preset for your iPad device in the Convert-to drop-down menu.
In the Destination-Setup section of the interface, choose the right preset for your iPad device in the Convert-to drop-down menu. You can also change the output settings to make the video look the best on iPad. Here I set the output video format to 'iPad MPEG-4 Video (*.mp4)'.
Step3. Hit Start to convert Thanksgiving movies to iPad supported video format.
Once the above mentioned steps are finished, you can click the big button "Start" to rip Thanksgiving movies to iPad via iFunia DVD to iPad Converter. When the conversion is done, you can get the output video for your iPad, by then, you are ready to enjoy Thanksgiving movies on Thanksgiving Day. Hope this helps.
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Note: If you are using Windows, please go to iFunia DVD to iPad Converter for Windows
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