Video Magic Help - Convert Video or DVD

Video Magic from BlazeVideo Inc. is a powerful all-in-one video and DVD converter software for your portable devices such as Apple iPad, iPod, iPhone, BlackBerry, Sony PSP, 3GP Mobile Phone, Archos series, Samsung, Nokia, HTC, etc.

With Video Magic you can also convert video and DVD into various audio formats including MP2, MP3, AAC, AC3, M4A and HD videos such as AVI HD, MP4 HD, MPG HD, MKV HD, TS HD, WMV HD, MOV HD.

BlazeVideo Inc. offers 3 versions of Video Magic for various users: Video Magic, Video Magic Professional and Video Magic Ultimate.

6 powerful functions available in the 3 versions: Convert, Clip, Edit (including features of Clip, Crop, Effects, Watermark, Subtitle), Merge, Download, Subtitle and Make Ringtones for iPhone.

New Features in Video Magic 6:

Comparing with older versions, Video Magic 6 offers a powerful video or DVD editing function by integrating clipping, cropping, adding effects such as brightness, hue, saturation and contract, adding subtitle (you can set the subtitle size and position onto your video), and adding watermark (you can set the color, size and position of your watermark).

We will write three articles to introduce the specific functions in the 3 versions and how to use them step by step.

Here in article 1, we mainly give a detailed guide to convert video and DVD files for your portable devices.

Guide on how to convert video for your portable devices. (Available in Video Magic, Video Magic Professional and Video Magic Ultimate. But you are allowed to get 3min output video files only in free trial versions.)

Note: Video Magic Pro and Video Magic Ultimate support DVD as input format.

Here take DVD to iPad conversion in Video Magic Pro for example.

Step 1: Load video or DVD files.

Click to load DVD files.

Select the DVD chapters you want to convert and click to add your chapters. Click you can also merge your selected chapters into one.

Tip 1: : You can play your source video files via this mini window.

Click to rename your converted file.

Step 2: Set output video resolutions. (Different output formats have different solutions)

Video Size:Select your output video size here. Below for choice:

Video Bitrate:Select output video bitrate here.

Sample: available.

Audio Bitrate: for choice.

Tip 2. Click for further settings as below:

Step 3. Select output format in "Profile" box.

Besides Apple iPad, you can also convert your video for many other video and audio formats and portable devices as below:

Audio: MP2, MP3, AAC, AC3 and M4A
Video: AVI, ASF, MOV, MP4, WMV, HD Video(AVI,MP4, MPG, MKV, TS, WMV, MOV), MP4 for Apple series(iPad/iPad HD/iPod/iPhone/iPhone 3G/iPhone 3GS/iPhone 4/iPhone 4 HD/iPod Touch/iPod Touch 4 HD/iPod nano/iPod classic)/BlackBerry series(Bold 9000/Curve8900/Curve 8300/Curve 8310/Pearl Flip/ Pearl 8800)/HTC series(Magic/Tattoo/T-Mobile G1/Wildfire/Desire/HTC Aria/HTC Surround)/Nokia series(N73/N95/N97/N900/X3/X6/E63/E72/5230/lumia 920/lumia 900/N9/N8/C5/C2 )/Sony series(PSP/PS3/PS3 HD/XPERIA x10/Xperia x8/Viva 2), Sanmsung(Galary S III, Galary S II, Galaxy Note, GalaxyTab, Galaxy Nexus, Galaxy Spica, Fascinate, Epic 4g, Mesmerize, Intercept, Mythic, Focus )AVI and MP4 for Archos series, 3GP for known cell phones.

Step 4: Set output location.

Default output location is C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\My Documents\My Videos . Click to reset the output location. Click to quick locate your converted files.

Step 5: Click to start conversion.

Step 6: Sync to your portable devices.

Once your portable devices such as Apple iPod, iPhone, iPod Touch and Sony PSP connected with computer, our Video Magic will sync to your devices automatically.