How to edit and convert MKV to FLV format with proper resolution for YouTube
Why MKV to FLV?
MKV format is one of the most popular video formats and can be widely supported by media players. You may received some absorbing videos clips from your friends, which are in MKV container, or you have made a favorite movie from DVD into MKV with some free tools, now you’d like to share these videos with more people on YouTube. Here comes a problem, YouTube will not allow you to upload these MKV files, and you have to convert them to something more acceptable, like FLV, a universal format of online videos and shows. How to convert MKV to FLV? There are too many transcoding tools to choose from. For me, I would prefer an MKV converter that can cut off any parts that I do not like, divide a movie into several chapters (sometimes combine some short episodes together), add some ads or watermark to each of the chapter, and adjust the aspect ratio to 16:9. Thanks to Pavtube MKV Converter, I managed to make all of that. In the following guide I will show you how to convert a MKV file to FLV format for YouTube.
Available Software – Pavtube MKV Converter
You may learn more information about Pavtube MKV Converter, or download its free trail. Note that the trial version outputs video with watermark on the screen.
Convert MKV to FLV
1. Load MKV files
Run MKV Converter. Click ‘Add’ and browse to the MKV file(s) you would like to convert, select it and click open to load in as the picture shows below.
2. Set output format and location
Click on ‘Format’ bar and select Flash Video-> FLV (H.264 encoded). There are H.264 encoded F4V and SWF as well. If you want to combine multiple MKV files as one, simply select them in file list and tick the checkbox ‘Merge into one file’. You may click the folder icon at the opposite side of ‘Output’ to specify output location.
3. Set advanced video and audio settings
Click on ‘Settings’ button to adjust video and audio parameters including codec, aspect ratio, bit rate, frame rate, sample rate, etc. The default resolution is 320*240p (4:3), which is just all right for YouTube. If you want to apply 16:9 aspect ratio, please select 480*272p in the dropdown list of ‘Size’. For HD video file, a recommended config is 1280*720p, 1500kbps, 24fps, 44.8khz, in case that you would not give in to quality degradation.
Note: Transcoding (conversion) is a process of lossy and can not upgrade the video quality. Please set no higher resolution than the source video. You can select a file and click ‘Properties’ button under the file list to check the original resolution.
4. Arrange chapters and sections.
When a file is too big to upload, you have to divide it to multiple chapters. To select a specific section of the selected video for conversion, you could click ‘Edit’ menu, switch to ‘Trim’ tab, and input specific time point in Start and End box, and click Set button.
5. Add watermark to the video and set effect.
Switch to ‘Text Watermark’ tab, check the ‘Enable’ box, and input desired text as watermark. You may click the dots button to set font, color, and size of the text, and set the position of watermark in ‘Left’ and ‘Top’ box. To add Image or Video as watermark, you can switch to Image/ Video Watermark tab. To set contrast, brightness and saturation, please click ‘Effect’ tab. After setting, click ‘OK’ button to save settings and exit editor.
6. Convert MKV to FLV
When back to main interface, click ‘Convert’ button to start conversion. Once click this button, the ViewLog will present you all the info such as conversion progress, conversion state, elapsed and estimated conversion time, and generated and estimated conversion file size. After conversion you can click the ‘Open’ button to find the FLV files for share.
Learn more: http://www.pavtube.com/guide/trim-convert-mkv-to-flv-with-proper-resolution-for-youtube.html
How to convert TiVo files to MOV, MPEG, AVI, MP4, FLV, WMV, and VOB on Mac
As we all know there is no certain software developed for Mac users to transfer and replay TiVo DVR recorded files as “TiVo Desktop” doing on Windows. But if you want to do format conversion between TiVo file and other video formats on your Mac directly, what is your method? My way is to use Pavtube Video Converter for Mac to achieve my goal. Once you are sure you have the same requirement as I do, follow these steps to find the solution.
Requirements:
- TiVo recordings: they can be from your own TiVo DVR or from the DVR of your friends
- TiVo Media Access Key: it is a specific 10-digit number assigned to every TiVo account holder. If your TiVo source file are from your friends, then ask him/her for it.
- Pavtube Video Converter for Mac
Step 1: Launch Pavtube Video Converter for Mac and click “Add” button to load TiVo files
In the first attempt, a dialog window will pop up as below, just click “OK” button.
After that, the following window will allow you to enter your Media Access Key, just insert it, and click “OK” button to confirm. What you should do next is clicking on “Add” button to load your TiVo files again. Or you can directly drag and drop the file into this program. Meanwhile, suppose you want to let it alone and do something else during the conversion, you can tick “Shut down the computer after conversion”.
Step 2: Select output format
Click on the drop-down list of “Format” to select output format. This utility supports a wide range of output format, including MOV, MPEG, AVI, MP4, FLV, WMV, VOB, and customized formats for iPod, iPhone, PSP, PS3, Apple TV, BlackBerry, etc.
Step 3: Do advanced settings
Click on “Settings” button to adjust audio and video parameters like codec, aspect ratio, bit rate, frame rate, sample rate, and audio channels. If you are not good at this step, you can totally skip it. By the way, if you wanna combine multiple files to be as a single file, you can tick the checkbox “Merge into one file” in the main interface.
Step 4: Click “Convert” button to start conversion
Once finished, you can get the output files via clicking on “Open” button with ease.
How to convert DVD to AVI, MPEG, WMV, MOV, MP4, MP3 on Mac and enjoy them on iPod, iPhone, Zune, PSP, etc.
Has your heart ever been touched by the good and evil of the humanity expressed in “Avatar”? Have you ever wept for the extremely romantic but tragic love in “Romeo and Juliet”? Have you ever been moved by the unremitting efforts made by Will Smith in “The Pursuit of Happyness”?
Uncountable classic movies have given us different kinds of feelings, wanna collect as many as them to be as your own collections on your home server, on your HD of PC, or enjoy them on your portable devices no matter wherever you go? If so, Pavtube DVD Ripper for Mac would be your suitable choice. It’s used to convert DVD movies to various video and audio formats such as AVI, WMV, MP4 (MPEG-4, H.264), MOV, MP3, etc., which are compatible with handheld devices like Motorola Droid, iPod, iPhone, Zune, Archos, PSP, Creative Zen, etc. Following is the user guide in detail.
Step 1: Download, install and run Pavtube DVD Ripper for Mac
Step 2: Import DVD files, set output format and destination folder.
You can add DVD files to it through “DVD Folder” or “IFO File”. After that, you can click the drop-down list of “Format” to select the output format according to your mobile devices accepted format. At the same time, you can hit “Browse” button to specify where to locate the output files. Moreover, if you want to join multiple titles or chapters into a single file, you can tick “Merge into one file” to realize this goal.
Step 3: Set advanced settings
Clicking on “Settings” button, experienced users can set video Codec Name, Bit Rate, Video Size, and Frame Rate to optimize the quality of the video, as well as setting audio Codec Name, Bit Rate, Sample Rate, and Channels to make the quality of audio better.
Step 4: Convert
After all the settings are done, you can click “Convert” button to start DVD ripping. Once begin, the following interface will show you clearly about the ripping info, including ripping progress, time elapse, time left, generated file size, estimated file size, etc.
Additional Tips:
1. Pavtube DVD Ripper for Mac supports importing unprotected DVDs and protected DVDs.
2. The conversion speed of this software is 1.5-2 times faster than the similar DVD rippers.
3. Ripping by chapters is supported.
4. There are no audio and video out of sync issues.
5. With exception of adding text as watermark, images, GIF animations, and videos can also be added as watermarks to realize the picture-in-picture effect.
6. You can use the “Trim” function to select certain DVD clips to convert. And you can also take advantage of the “Crop” function to remove black edges or change the screen size.
7. Specific effect models are provided, such as “Simple gauss blur”, “Simple laplacian sharpen”, “Aged film”, “Flip color”, and “Invert”.
How to convert TiVo files to MOV, MPEG, AVI, MP4, FLV, WMV, and VOB on Mac
As we all know there is no certain software developed for Mac users to transfer and replay TiVo DVR recorded files as “TiVo Desktop” doing on Windows. But if you want to do format conversion between TiVo file and other video formats on your Mac directly, what is your method? My way is to use Pavtube Video Converter for Mac to achieve my goal. Once you are sure you have the same requirement as I do, follow these steps to find the solution.
Requirements:
- TiVo recordings: they can be from your own TiVo DVR or from the DVR of your friends
- TiVo Media Access Key: it is a specific 10-digit number assigned to every TiVo account holder. If your TiVo source file are from your friends, then ask him/her for it.
- Pavtube Video Converter for Mac
Step 1: Launch Pavtube Video Converter for Mac and click “Add” button to load TiVo files
In the first attempt, a dialog window will pop up as below, just click “OK” button.
After that, the following window will allow you to enter your Media Access Key, just insert it, and click “OK” button to confirm. What you should do next is clicking on “Add” button to load your TiVo files again. Or you can directly drag and drop the file into this program. Meanwhile, suppose you want to let it alone and do something else during the conversion, you can tick “Shut down the computer after conversion”.
Step 2: Select output format
or http://en.wikipedia.org/ can help you !
Click on the drop-down list of “Format” to select output format. This utility supports a wide range of output format, including MOV, MPEG, AVI, MP4, FLV, WMV, VOB, and customized formats for iPod, iPhone, PSP, PS3, Apple TV, BlackBerry, etc.
Step 3: Do advanced settings
Click on “Settings” button to adjust audio and video parameters like codec, aspect ratio, bit rate, frame rate, sample rate, and audio channels. If you are not good at this step, you can totally skip it. By the way, if you wanna combine multiple files to be as a single file, you can tick the checkbox “Merge into one file” in the main interface.
Step 4: Click “Convert” button to start conversion
Once finished, you can get the output files via clicking on “Open” button with ease.
Convert MKV to vob or mp4 for playback on PS3 with your needed audio track
I’m trying to convert an MKV files to the format of vob or mp4 for playback on my PS3. The thing is that the mkv file contains two audio tracks, English and French. For some reason, the French track is the default track, but I can understand English only, so I have to look around the Internet for a program that allows me selecting English track as output audio track. After trying out couples of converters, finally I came across Pavtube MKV Converter in a forum, and found some good reviews on it. It really saved me a lot. Share it here, hope it is exactly what you are looking for. Please find a step-by-step instruction from my following contents.
First off, you can free download Pavtube MKV Converter here.
1. Launch Pavtube MKV Converter and click “Add” button to load MKV files
As soon as the file is loaded, you can double click the file name to preview the movie.
2. Click “Properties” icon to select your needed audio track
or http://en.wikipedia.org/ can help you !
You are allowed to click on the drop-down menu of “Audio Stream ID” to see which one is your needed audio track. After your selection is done, do remember clicking “OK” button to save your choice.
3. Click on the pull down menu of “Format” to select mp4 or vob as output format for PS3
I chose “PS3 Video (720P) MPEG-4 (*.mp4)” for instance. To output vob files, you can select “VOB Format” firstly, and then select a format according to your own requirement.
4. Click “Settings” button to do advanced settings
If you want to adjust the video and audio parameters to achieve a special video and audio quality, you can click “Settings” button to adjust video and audio parameters like codec, image size, bit rate, etc to whatever you like. To get a smaller file size, you can select smaller values, but there will be some video loss to some extent; to get a better quality, you can select larger values, while the file size will be enlarged without doubt. That is to say you’d better make a good balance between the output file size and the file quality. If you are not good at it, you can totally skip this step, because the default settings can satisfy you needs basically.
5. Click “Convert” button to start converting mkv to mp4 or vob
Once finished, you can get the resulted files via clicking on “Open” button effortlessly. Now, it’s time to enjoy the movie on your PS3 via your wide screen TV.
The end! Hope this helps.
How to convert Blu-ray, standard DVD and various videos to a compatible format with iPad
Apple’s iPad features a 9.7-inch high-resolution 1024×768 multi-touch display, which not only makes it convenient and comfortable for users to read newspapers, magazines, and books, view photos, experience the web, see and touch emails, but also makes it perfect for watching any kind of video, from HD movies and TV shows to podcasts, music videos and more. Since iPad is without distracting keypad or buttons, you will totally concentrate on this big screen, and feel completely immersed in whatever you’re watching.
As of March 12, 2010, Apple fans in the U.S. are able to pre-order the iPad. The iPad is scheduled to go on sale in the U.S. on April 3. Are you ready for watching video and Blu-ray or DVD movie collections on your iPad? If not, this tutorial will give you a solution to the problem of how to play iPad incompatible video files in a detailed way with Pavtube Blu-ray Video Converter Ultimate.
Before that, go to see the iPad supported video formats as below:
TV and video playback:
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
Well, if your movies are out of the above categories, then please follow the following guide to do format conversion before your playback.
Step 1: Add videos, Blu-ray or DVD movies into this program
Click “Add Video” to import video files, and click “Load DVD” to import Blu-ray or standard DVDs.
or http://en.wikipedia.org/ can help you !
Step 2: Select “iPad” as output format
Click the pull down menu at the end of “Format” to select an output format for iPad. Here I choose “iPad Video MPEG-4 (*.mp4)” as an example.
Step 3: Click “Settings” button to adjust audio and video parameters
You are allowed to adjust codec, aspect ratio, bit rate, frame rate, sample rate and audio channel in the popup window to optimize the output file quality. Do remember following Apple’s recommended settings I’ve mentioned in the above contents:
Video:
MPEG-4 video, up to 2.5 Mbps, 640 by 480 pixels, 30 frames per second
Audio:
Simple Profile with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48kHz, stereo
Step 4: Click “Convert” button to start conversion.
Once finished, you can get the output files for your iPad via clicking on “Open” button effortlessly.
How to enjoy Blu-ray and DVD movies on iPad?
We all pretty much knew it was happening, and Steve Jobs didn’t let us down: Apple introduced a tablet device called the iPad in San Francisco on January 27. As Jobs said, the iPad is a creative product. It can perform a perfect performance in E-mail, enjoying photos, music and videos, and playing games. The one hundred forty thousand application in the utility store will enable to you do lots of things conveniently. The online iBook store can allow you to enjoy millions of books anywhere and anytime. Smart design and powerful function will make iPad App fans’ favorite in the near future.
Video actually played a big role during the announcement, with Job’s saying that a new device only made sense if it was better at watching video, among other tasks, than current laptops and smart phones. And the fact is that iPad can do a good job in HD movies and TV shows playback. The 9.7— inch LED-backlit glossy widescreen Multi-Touch display with IPS technology will make you enjoy a more wonderful visual experience than ever. However, it is pity that there is no built-in optical drive, and the external drives are very expensive. So, how can we watch Blu-ray and DVD movies on iPad in an easy and cheap way? Here I will share the best solution with you all.
To rip Blu-ray disc and DVD, Blu-ray Ripper and BD drive are required. You may download Pavtube Blu-ray Ripper from here. It is naturally support DVD ripping and allows you to select audio track of any language of the movie. Now find a step-to-step guide below:
Step 1: Click “DVD ROM” or “IFO/ISO File” to import Blu-ray files.
Step 2: Click the drop-down list of “Format” to select an output format. Here I follow iPad-> MPEG-4 (*.mp4)” for instance.
Step 3: Click “Browse” button to look for and set a save path to store the output HD videos.
Step 4: Click “Settings” button to do advanced settings.
After clicking this button, you will enter the window shown below, on which you are allowed to adjust video and audio parameters like codec name, bit rate, image pixel, sample rate, etc., in that way you can take charge of the output file size as well as image quality on your hands freely.
Step 5: Click “Convert” button to start Blu-ray ripping.
As long as the ripping work is finished, you can click “Open” button to find out the ripped HD files with ease. Then, you can transfer the generated file to your iPad to enjoy wonderful high quality Blu-ray movies.
Learn more: http://www.pavtube.com/guide/rip-blu-ray-to-ipad-compatible-format.html
Convert MKV to vob or mp4 for playback on PS3 with your needed audio track
I’m trying to convert an MKV files to the format of vob or mp4 for playback on my PS3. The thing is that the mkv file contains two audio tracks, English and French. For some reason, the French track is the default track, but I can understand English only, so I have to look around the Internet for a program that allows me selecting English track as output audio track. After trying out couples of converters, finally I came across Pavtube MKV Converter in a forum, and found some good reviews on it. It really saved me a lot. Share it here, hope it is exactly what you are looking for. Please find a step-by-step instruction from my following contents.
First off, you can free download Pavtube MKV Converter here.
1. Launch Pavtube MKV Converter and click “Add” button to load MKV files
As soon as the file is loaded, you can double click the file name to preview the movie.
2. Click “Properties” icon to select your needed audio track
You are allowed to click on the drop-down menu of “Audio Stream ID” to see which one is your needed audio track. After your selection is done, do remember clicking “OK” button to save your choice.
3. Click on the pull down menu of “Format” to select mp4 or vob as output format for PS3
or http://en.wikipedia.org/ can help you !
I chose “PS3 Video (720P) MPEG-4 (*.mp4)” for instance. To output vob files, you can select “VOB Format” firstly, and then select a format according to your own requirement.
4. Click “Settings” button to do advanced settings
If you want to adjust the video and audio parameters to achieve a special video and audio quality, you can click “Settings” button to adjust video and audio parameters like codec, image size, bit rate, etc to whatever you like. To get a smaller file size, you can select smaller values, but there will be some video loss to some extent; to get a better quality, you can select larger values, while the file size will be enlarged without doubt. That is to say you’d better make a good balance between the output file size and the file quality. If you are not good at it, you can totally skip this step, because the default settings can satisfy you needs basically.
5. Click “Convert” button to start converting mkv to mp4 or vob
Once finished, you can get the resulted files via clicking on “Open” button effortlessly. Now, it’s time to enjoy the movie on your PS3 via your wide screen TV.
The end! Hope this helps.
Play Blu-ray movie with HDTV DVD Combo – Burning Blu-ray to DVD
HDTV DVD Combo features a built-in slot-loading DVD player, which provides an optimum way to save space. With the slim profile, it’s really an amazing experience to watch favorites TV shows and DVD movies on this device in your bedroom. But if your TV only has a standard DVD player but not the Blu-ray disc player, what is your solution to play Blu-ray movies on it? I’d like to know your ideas. I believe my way is somewhat helpful, just convert BD to a DVD format, and then burn it to a blank DVD for playback on the TV/DVD Combo, so share it here, and also be glad to hearing from you guys.
The software I used is as below:
- ReJig (freeware)
or http://en.wikipedia.org/ can help you !
- ImgBurn (freeware)
HOW-TO:
Part 1:
Firstly, use Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripper to remove copy protections of Blu-ray movies, and meanwhile convert it to the DVD vob format.
1. Run Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripper and click “DVD Rom”, “DVD Folder” or “IFO/ISO” to load Blu-ray movies. Generally speaking, the file with the longest duration time would be the main movie, if you just need back up the main movie, tick off this one only.
Each file will be checked by default after imported, right click on any one of the files, and then there will be a popup window to let you uncheck all, just do it, and afterwards to tick off the checkbox before the file you need converted.
2. Click on the drop-down menus after “Subtitle” and “Audio” respectively to select your required languages and sound effect.
3. Select VOB as output format and specify destination folder
Click on the pull down list of “Format” to select VOB as output format and click on the folder icon at the opposite side of “Output” to specify destination folder.
4. Customize output settings
The popup window will allow you to adjust audio and video parameters including codec, bit rate, aspect ratio, frame rate, sample rate, and audio channels to optimize the output file quality.
5. Click on “Convert” button to start BD ripping
Once finished, you can find out the output files via clicking on “Open” button with ease.
Part 2:
Then use ReJig to do DVD authoring.
It’s pretty simple with ReJig. Press “File Mode”; add your vob files and Demux.
When it’s finished, close that box and then select DVD Author. Add the video and audio files you’ve just created, and choose output destination folder, and click Create.
After DVD authoring is completed, you can open the destination folder to see that the output files are AUDIO-TS and VIDEO-TS folders, which are the correct structure for DVD burning.
Part 3:
Use ImgBurn to burn DVD
We have got VIDEO-TS folder in part two, so the DVD burning process with ImgBurn is pretty simple. Here give you two links to check the detailed steps:
How to write DVD Video files directly to single layer media using ImgBurn (DVD±R/RW)
How to write a DVD Video double layer disc using ImgBurn (Verbatim DVD+R DL) – just check the contents that start from adding VIDEO-TS folder of this guide.
The end! Hope this helps.
How to convert MKV to MP4, AVI, MOV, and FLV on Mac and Windows?
People nowadays can easily download various sorts of MKV files online free of charge. These MKV files can be in forms of videos, movies, or MV, nevertheless, all of them can not be directly played in many system built-in players, and need to be converted to other formats. This article here aims to introduce you what is MKV, and how to convert the MKV files on Mac and Windows.
Part 1: What is MKV?
Briefly speaking, MKV is one of the file types of a container format called Matroska, which is similar to other containers like ASF, AVI, MP4, and 3GP in conception. Matroska is an open standard free container format, which can hold an unlimited number of subtitle tracks, pictures, audios, or videos within a single file. It contains three file types: MKV for video files (including audios and subtitles); MKS for subtitles (only subtitles); MKA for audio files only. To store HD video files is the most common use of MKV files.
Part 2: How to convert MKV to MP4, MOV, and FLV on Mac?
1. Run Pavtube MKV Converter for Mac, and add MKV files to it
Click “Add” button to input MKV files to this program.
2. Select format and set destination folder
Select whatever format you want in the drop-down list of “Format“. To play the video with QuickTime, you can select MP4 or MOV. To sync to your portable devices, you can select MP4 or 3GP. To edit with iMovie, you can select MP4 or MOV. To upload to video website, you can select FLV. At the same time, you should also set where to locate your output files by click button ”Browse”, or you can use the destination path set by default directly.
3. Set output settings
If you want to optimize the quality of your output videos, you can click “Settings” to reset video or audio parameters in the following window.
4. Press “Convert” button to start converting
The conversion can be finished at an unbelievable fast speed; also, it is without the problem of audio-video out of sync.
Tips:
How to add watermarks to your video?
If you want to add watermarks to your videos as your own logo or just for fun, you can go on with the following part. You are able to add text, GIF animations, images, and videos to your original videos as watermarks.
1. Add text watermark
Check button “Enable” to edit text watermark, and type the text you want to use as watermark in textbox. Yon are also allowed to click button “Fonts” to edit the font style, size, and color of the text.
2. Add image/video watermark
You are allowed to add images and GIF animations or videos as watermarks to realize the wonderful picture-in-picture effect. Check option “Enable” to edit image or video watermark. And click button “Browse” to specify the image or video files that you want to use as watermark. You can set the image position by dragging the slider bars of “X” and “Y” options, or change the values in the “X” and “Y” boxes. The “Width” and “Height” can also be set by dragging the slider bars or changing the values.
Part 2: How to convert MKV to MP4, MOV, and FLV on Windows?
1. Install Pavtube MKV Converter, and launch it.
Run this program, a friendly wine red interface will pop up:
2. Import files, select format and set destination folder
Click “Add“ button to import MKV files to this program, and then
3. Press “Convert” button to start converting
This MKV converter do not test your patience, since the conversion can be finished at an unbelievable fast speed, also, unlike some other MKV converters, it is without the problem of audio-video out of sync. The conversion progress will be showed clearly in the following window, and other items like the spent time, the remaining time, the possibly produced file size and the already generated file size will all be presented in detail, so as to you can manage your time and disc space properly.
After the conversion is completed, you can watch the videos in AVI, MOV, or MP4 formats that got from the original MKV files on your computer or other mobile devices easily, or upload the generated FLV videos to some video websites to share with everyone else.