Adobe releases Adobe Photoshop Express for both iPhone and iPad on Aug 12, 2010

This app is free, and easy to use. You can down it in iTunes.

Download and convert YouTube videos on MAC

YouTube is pretty much the one stop shop for videos online. In case you are interested in downloading YouTube videos to your Mac computer so that you can play them on iPad or iPhone 4 or some other portable devices.

"I'd like to download some YouTube videos to my phone. I use a Firefix extention to download .flv files, but I can't use them. All the converters I googled were Windows only. I'd also love to convert YouTube flv to MP4 on Mac." Does anyone have the same problem as me? Wanna download and convert YouTube videos to other format? Well, I found a very good tool called iFunia YouTube converter to make it easily! Now, I'd like to share some simple practical tips which I collated on the course. The steps listed below will help you quickly and easily get the favourite YouTube videos and convert to other formats on your Mac OS.

Things You Will Need
* A Mac computer
* iFunia YouTube Converter for MAC
* Network and portable player
* Favourite YouTube videos

Step 1. Download and run iFunia YouTube Converter for Mac
Download the YouTube Converter for MAC from iFunia and install it on MAC. Now run the program on your Mac. It's really easy to use yet powerful. You may use iFunia YouTube Converter to download any favourite videos from YouTube as many as you want.

Step 2. Add video URLs to download videos from YouTube
In the "Download" channel, there is the field for a Video URL, the field for an output path. Simply copy-n-paste a YouTube or Google URL to the Video URL field. The URL looks like: http://www.YouTube.com/watch?v=uTJAsZP2iLk. You can batch download multiple videos by adding multiple YouTube video URLs. And then specify a directory on your computer to save the output FLV files.


Step 3. Open YouTube FLV video files to convert and select output profile
After downloading the YouTube videos, then switch to "Convert" channel, in the program's main window click "Add..." button on the toolbar to add FLV videos that you want to convert to the needed compatible video formats. Select the output profile in "Convert to" from the dropdown menu in the lower part of the window.




Step 4. Convert YouTube *.flv videos
Finally, click the big "Convert" button to start converting YouTube FLV videos. You also can batch convert multiple videos.

YouTube video Technology
YouTube uses Adobe Flash Video technology to display a wide variety of user-generated video content, including movie clips, TV clips, and music videos. Viewing YouTube videos on a personal computer requires the Adobe Flash Player plug-in to be installed in the browser.
In January 2010, YouTube launched an experimental version of the site that uses the built-in multimedia capabilities of web browsers supporting the HTML5 standard. This allows videos to be viewed without requiring Adobe Flash Player or any other plug-in to be installed. The YouTube site has a page that allows supported browsers to opt in to the HTML5 trial. Only browsers that support HTML5 Video using the H.264 or WebM formats can play the videos, and not all videos on the site are available. So one of the best options for enjoying YouTube videos is download and convert them to the needed formats, then playback on iPad, iPhone 4, PSP, or some other portable devices on-the-go.

Tips
* The iFunia YouTube Converter will switch to "Convert" channel after downloading the videos automaticly.
* This YouTube Converter from iFunia enable you to download and convert YouTube videos to a wide arrange of video formats including MP4, M4A, MOV, MP3, etc, enable them to be played on iPad, iPhone(iPhone 4), iPod, Apple TV or Quick Time Player.
* Doubles as a YouTube HD video downloader and converter. It helps you download and convert YouTube HD video to HD MP4, HD MOV, HD AVI and more.
* Allows you extract soundtracks from online videos.
* Save time by downloading or converting multiple videos at the same time.

How to convert video and DVD movies to iPad or iPhone 4 on MAC

If you got a bunch of videos from HD camera or somewhere, or numbers of favourite DVD movies and want to watch them free on the go, what should you do? Just stored or buy the DVDs from iTunes again?

Well, with the portable device player flourishing developing on the market, you can just put the videos and DVD movies on them and playback as desired. The new released iPad, with 9.7-inch LED-backlit glossy widescreen display, 1024-by-768-piexl resolution, the HD feature makes watching DVD movies an utterly new experience. As well as iPhone 4, thanks to the Retina display, it's pixel density is so high, your eye is unable to distinguish individual pixels. And the remarkable 960x640 resolution screen of iPhone 4 will make your movie watching experience unbelievably sharp and crisp. So it’s wise to convert the videos and kinds of DVD movies to your new iPad or iPhone 4 for entertainment.

To help Mac users watching videos and DVD movies on iPad or iPhone 4, this article will focus on this point to show you a solution on how to convert, rip videos and DVD movies to iPad or iPhone 4 on Mac OS. Just read on to find this step-by-step tutorial from the following contents.

What You Will Need
* Bunch of videos or DVD movies
* iFunia MediaConverter Bundle
* iTunes

Step-by-step guide: how to convert video to iPad or iPhone 4 on Mac OS

Step1. Add video to convert
Download iFunia MediaConverter Bundle and run the Video Converter Pro, click Add…button to select and open the video file you wish to convert. iFunia MAC Video Converter Pro is an all-in-one MAC video converter, a groundbreaking Mac video format converter you can use to convert video of all popular formats like AVI, WMV, AVCHD, MKV, FLV, H.264/AVC, MP4, MOV, 3GP,etc. for playback on iPad, iPhone 4, iPod, Apple TV and other portable devices.


Step2. Select an output format
In the Destination-Setup section of the interface, choose the right preset for your iPad or iPhone 4 devices in the Convert-to drop-down menu.


Step3. Adjust audio and video parameters
In the Convert to settings, you can get the following window will pop up. This iFunia Mac Video Converter Pro allows users adjusting video and audio parameters like codec name, aspect ratio, bit rate, frame rate, sample rate and audio channels to optimize the playback quality on iPad or iPhone 4.



Please notice that the parameters you changed should not be out of the format restrictions of iPad and iPhone 4, otherwise, the output files may not playable. Following are iPad and iPhone 4 all Supported following Video Format.

* H.264 video (up to 720p, 30 frames per second; main profile level 3.1 with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats)
* MPEG-4 video, up to 2.5 Mbps, 640 by 480 pixels, 30 frames per second, Simple Profile with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats.
* Motion JPEG (M-JPEG) up to 35 Mbps, 1280 by 720 pixels, 30 frames per second, audio in ulaw, PCM stereo audio in .avi file format.

Step4. Click the “Start” button to start conversion on OS X
Bingo! That’s it! When the conversion is done you can transfer the video to your iPad or iPhone 4 via iTunes and enjoy it anytime and everywhere!

Steps on ripping DVD movies to iPad or iPhone 4
The steps on ripping DVD movies are similar to convert videos. First, run the DVD Ripper Pro from the iFunia MediaConverter Bundle, and click the "Load..." button to load IFO files. Next preset the output settings, adjust wanted parameters and then click "Start" button to start the ripping.



After all are done, you just get the wanted DVD movies on MAC, and sync them to your iPad or iPhone 4 for playback on-the-go!

Additional tips:
* iFunia MediaConverter Bundle allows you convert HD videos and rip DVD movies to all popular formats.
* Batch conversion. Convert multiple videos in one pass to save time.
* Save video and DVD movies for iPad, iPhone 4, iPhone 3G(S), Apple TV, PSP, Zune, Archos, BlackBerry, cell phone and more.
* You can join multiple video files to create a single movie via merge the video files.
* You can do simple editing like trimming, cropping, adding special effects, watermark to video and deinterlace video by clicking "Edit". Real-time preview provided while editing.
* You can preview the video by selecting the video and clicking Play in the preview pane. You can also take snapshot and save them as jpg, bmp file while preview.

How to convert video to MP4, AVI, FLV, 3GP, WMV, MOV…on MAC

I got some favourite videos and would like to watch them on my phone everytime eveywhere on the go. But the videos I downloaded are .FLV video format which could not be supported by my phone. I would like to find a video converter to convert FLV to 3GP videos. Do you have the same conversion problem too? Maybe you got lots of video and would like to import them into Windows Movie Maker for editing.

But the videos downloaded are .MKV video format which could not be supported by Windows Movie Maker, then you need to convert the MKV to WMV videos first; or you got some AVCHD videos by HD camera, and just wanna upload them to YouTube for sharing, but found that YouTube only support several video formats, this time you may need to convert the AVCHD to FLV files for uploading.

Nowadays, people have so many kinds of portable music/video players, and they play different video formats, so how to convert video from one popular video format to another is a question. Now I will give you a excellent All-in-one video converter: iFunia Video Converter Pro that can do all popular formats conversion in few clicks. The process is relatively simple, so even if you are not technically savvy, you should be able to convert all popular video formats to MP4, AVI, FLV, 3GP, WMV, MOV…on MAC without an issue. Well, read on.

Step1. Download and install iFunia Video Converter Pro
Download the All-in-one video converter from iFunia homepage or download sites, and install it on MAC.

Step2. Add video files to the converting program
Run the program iFunia Video Converter Pro on your Mac and click the button "Add.." to add video files, you may add as many videos as you want for batch conversion.


Step3. (Optional) Edit videos: crop, trim, add effects, add watermark
This step is optional step. But when you come to review the video your taken and find it's too dark or the focus is blurred, you may wanna fix these flaws and apply artistic effects with the Edit Video module of the program. Plus, with just a few clicks, you can crop the video to remove black sides, trim the video and add text or image watermark easily as below.


Step4. Set the output formats and other settings
From the "Convert to" drop-down list select output format for each video file and specify a directory on your computer to save the output files. Remember that the output file size mostly depends on the Bitrate you set. Larger Bitrate, larger file size. Actually video with bitrate as 768 is acceptable for watching.


Step5. Start the converting
After all the preset done, you may click the big button "Start" to begin converting videos to MP4, AVI, FLV, 3GP, WMV, MOV that which one you need. The convert progress bar shows you how much of the encoding is completed. The encoding time will depend on several variables including: the duration of the video file, the speed of your computer, what other activity your computer is currently doing and the bitrate you set.

Tips
* You can preview the video by selecting the video and clicking Play in the preview pane. You can also take snapshot and save them as jpg, bmp file while preview.
* Supports Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard and Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard on iMac, Mac Pro, MacBook, MacBook Pro, MacBook Air, etc.
* If you are a PC user, please just refer to iFunia Video Converter Pro for Windows.

How to Watch DVD Movies on iPad easily with iFunia

What movie format will iPad play? How to convert a movie compatible to iPad movie format without buying the movie with iTunes.

So you just bought an iPad and want to stock it with movies from your DVD library. For both Windows and Mac users, we need a third-party software to converter DVD movies to iPad and then we can watch DVD on iPad. We're talking about ripping a movie directly from the DVD.

Here is the guide will solve the problem on how to watch DVD movies on iPad for Mac users. The software we will use here is iFunia DVD to iPad Converter for Mac. You can get it from its official page. It will not only help you convert DVD movies to watch on iPad, but also let you edit the DVD and much more.

Things You Will Need
* Cool iPad
* Favourite DVD movies
* DVD to iPad Converter from iFunia
* Free storage space

What movie format will iPad play?
So, most iPad users like to watch movies on this beautiful handset. However, according to iPad's official page, there are many technical specifications as follows for iPad movie format:
Movie Format: MP4, MOV, M4V
Movie Size: up to 1280 by 720
Movie Framerate: up to 30fps
Movie Bitrate: up to 1.5Mbps for H.264, or 2.5Mbps for MPEG-4
Audio: AAC up to 160Kbps, 48 kHz

H.264: A standard for video compression; known as MPEG-4 Part 10, or MPEG-4 AVC (for Advanced Video Coding); the latest block-oriented motion-compensation-based codec standard developed by the ITU-T Video Coding Experts Group (VCEG) together with the ISO/IEC Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG).
MPEG-4: A collection of methods defining compression of audio and visual (AV) digital data; introduced in late 1998 and designated a standard for a group of audio and video coding formats and related technology agreed upon by the ISO/IEC Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) under the formal standard ISO/IEC 14496; uses of MPEG-4 include compression of AV data for web (streaming media) and CD distribution, voice (telephone, videophone) and broadcast television applications.
MP4: Movie or video clip that uses MPEG-4 compression, a standard developed by the Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG); commonly used for sharing video files on the Internet.
MOV: Common multimedia format often used for saving movies and other video files; uses a proprietary compression algorithm developed by Apple Computer; compatible with both Macintosh and Windows platforms.
M4V: MPEG-4 file extension used for videos downloaded from the Apple iTunes store; includes music videos, TV episodes, and full-length movies; similar to a .MP4 file, but may be copy-protected using Apple's FairPlay DRM copyright protection.

How to Watch DVD Movies on iPad for Mac?
It will be deadly easy for Mac users to watch DVD movies on iPad with the help of iFunia DVD to iPad Converter for Mac. This guide is easy enough to follow while you read it.

Step 1 Load movies to the DVD to iPad Converter for Mac
Now get your DVD disc and insert it. Then run iFunia DVD to iPad movie format converter on your Mac and click the big button "Load..." to load your DVD disk.


Step 2 Select iPad preset from output format list
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)'.


Step 3 Hit Start to convert DVD for iPad to Finish
Bingo! That's it! When the conversion is done you can copy the output DVD movies to your iPad and enjoy it comfortably on a cozy sofa! This professional DVD to iPad Converter for Mac from iFunia is specially design for Apple iPad, aiming to enable iPad users an exquisite experience of viewing DVD movies on your iPad’s widescreen.


Tips
* If you are a PC user, please refer to iFunia DVD to iPad Converter for Windows.
* Output setting. In the settings window, the parametres of movie going to be gennerated will be set automatically according to iPad's video requirements. However, you can access more configurations and change them if you like to customize the iPad movie.
* This DVD to iPad Converter from ifunia allows edit videos, crop, trim video and add watermark and special effects.
* Batch Conversion. Save time with batch and fast speed of video conversion.

Convert 1080P HD Videos to 720P for iPad on MAC

So you've got an iPad with an "HD" 1,024 by 768 pixel screen, the screen is in a 4:3 ratio which is the exactly the same as an old CRT television set. Many of us are having gone on from there and are luxuriating in the glory of our 16x9 aspect HD videos. It turns out that 16x9 will give you big honking black bars at the top and bottom of your screen as you can see by the green bar in the image below, and anything above or below it will be displayed as black bars.

Actually, if you have a boatload of 1080P HD video files on your computer, iPad can't play them - and, iTunes won't even let you copy them to the iPad! The easiest solution is to download or convert 1080P HD video to 720P video using HD Video Converter supplied by iFunia. Here is a tutorial will show you a really easy solution to convert 1080P HD videos(.MTS, .M2TS, .MKV) to iPad with HD Video Converter from iFunia in full screen for great enjoyment.

3 simple steps to convert 1080P HD files to 720P for playing on iPad
Step 1: "Add" 1080P HD (.mts, .m2ts, .mkv ) files to iFunia HD video converter.


Step 2: Choose H.264 720P MP4 format for iPad
We all know the iPad can only play back H.264 MPEG4 (.mp4) files, choose H.264 720P MP4 output profile. And in the "Settings" window, all the video/audio parameters are set for playing 1080p on iPad with better quality.


Step 3: Click the "Start" button to start conversion of 1080p, 1080i MTS/M2TS files to 720P for iPad now.
As long as the conversion is done, you will get the 720p MP4 video files in full screen from its destination folder, and then you can import the files to iTunes and sync to your iPad for playing.

Tips
* If you are a PC user and want to convert 1080P HD Videos to 720P for iPad on Windows, please turn to iFunia HD Video Converter for Windows.
* This HD Video Converter from iFunia can convert HD videos including HD AVI,HD WMV,HD MOV, H.264/AVC, AVCHD (mts, m2ts), MKV.
* Allows edit videos, crop, trim video and add watermark and special effects.
* You can merge multiple video clips into one video with iFunia HD Converter.
* Down-convert HD videos to SD video formats with iFunia HD tool.
* Batch Conversion. Save time with batch and fast speed of video conversion.

Handbrake Presets for iPhone 4 and iPad

The release of iPad and recently the iPhone 4  are all perfect for watching HD DVD movies, TV shows, music videos, and more.

You might want to use popular video encoding tool Handbrake to put some DVD movies or videos on your new iPad or iPhone 4, but there is no option at present for selecting iPad or iPhone 4 profile for the output format.

Here we put together some presets suggestion optimized for creating both iPad and iPhone 4-optimized video in Handbrake.

Option 1. Handbrake settings for iPhone 4 and iPad using custom optimized presets 

1. Installing the custom optimized presets 

First, you need to download the presets. Once downloaded just have to import them Handbrake to this end we will just Presets and then to Import, and select the files we downloaded. They should appear in the Handbrake presets panel, available for use.
 

2. Choosing the right Preset 
If you're ripping a DVD you're dealing with standard definition video, so the SD preset is all you'll need. If you're converting HD content, however, you have a choice. You can either convert the content to a full 720p or use the iFrame preset, which will create a file that's approximately 960x540. This is half-1080p resolution and is a size Apple likes to promote for HD content. It's nearly full resolution on your iPad and is as close as you'll get to full resolution on your iPhone 4. This is a good option for saving space if you're planning on watching your videos mainly on the iPad. If you plan on showing them on your television or want a higher-quality file, using the 720p preset may be a better choice.

Kindly note these presets were designed to work with the new iPhone 4 and the iPad. They may not be compatible with other Apple devices.
Option 2. Handbrake settings for iPhone 4 or iPad using Apple TV preset
 
iPad, iPhone 4 and Apple TV can handle higher resolution, so I recommend use Apple TV preset if you want to make the most of your HD feature and watch HD videos on your iPad or iPhone 4.

1. Import DVD or Video to Handbrake

2. Select Apple TV preset 

If you want to rip commercial DVDs, Blu-ray DVD movies excluded, the Apple TV preset is fine. If you need to convert HD videos, you can raise the resolution to 1280 width in picture settings.
 
Option 3. Handbrake settings for iPhone 4 and iPad using iPod Touch preset 

If you want your video to play on all Apple devices, you can use iPod preset. The output file size will be smaller than Apple TV preset, but the picture won't be as good as Apple TV preset. Converting DVD movies and videos to iPad or iPhone 4 with iPod touch preset is similar to using Apple TV preset. Just raise the resolution to 480 height and the output video will work on all Apple.

Conclusion 

Encoding can be a particular thing, so while these presets aim for both quality and file size you may have your own preferences. Perhaps there are other applications like DVD to iPad Converter / DVD to iPhone 4 Converter or iPad Video Converter / iPhone 4 Video Converter that make better conversions and provide optimized and direct presets for iPad. Easily convert DVD movies and any format videos to iPad format, without worrying about all the settings.

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