Most of us know HD video, but actually a few can really understand the meaning of HD (High Definition). HD video (High-definition video) refers to any video system of higher resolution than SD (standard-definition) video, and most commonly involves display resolutions of 1280×720 pixels (720p) or 1920×1080 pixels (1080i/1080p).
Nowadays, HD is becoming more and more popular. However, HD video also brings inconvenience: It cannot be edited on common editing programs; it cannot be supported by popular portable devices such as iPod, iPhone, Sansa, Zune, Creative Zen.

Here I’d like to introduce HD video converters that can solve the inconvenience: Tipard HD Video Converter for Mac and Tipard HD Video Converter that can mutually convert HD video, like HD TS, HD MTS, HD M2TS, HD MPG, HD MPEG, HD MP4, HD WMV, QuickTime HD MOV, HD H.264, HD RM to SD Video like MPG, MPEG, MP4, M4V, TS, RM, RMVB, WMV, ASF, MKV, AVI, 3GP, 3G2, FLV, SWF, MOD, TOD, MOV, DV for your iPod, iPhone, Creative Zen, Zune, with speed and precision.

The article is divided into two parts:
Part 1: How to convert HD video on Mac
Part 2: How to convert HD video on Windows

Part 1: How to convert HD video on Mac

Step 0: Download and install the HD Video Converter for Mac (Intel Version) or (Power PC Version). After the action, you will see the following screenshot:

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Step 1: Click the "Add Files" button and add the video files you want to convert.

Step 2: Select the video or audio format you want to convert it to. At the same time, you can set the output parameters of the conversion by clicking “Setting” button to open the Setting window as follows:

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Step 3: Click “Browse” button to specify a location to save the converted video or audio. If you want to open the output folder, click “Open” button.
Step 4: Click “Start” button.

This Converter for Mac also has powerful editing functions besides conversion. Take some examples below:

1: Snapshot
If you like the current image of the video you can use the “Snapshot” option, just click the “Snapshot” button and the image will be saved and then click the “Open” button next to “Snapshot” button to open your picture.
2: Merge
If you want to merge several videos into one file you can choose them at one time and click the “Merge into one file” to do it.
3:Effect
Click “Effect” button you can do these actions: adjusting brightness, contrast and saturation of the video. You can easily adjust the video through two windows in the same interface.

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4:Trim
If you just want convert a clip of your video, then you can use the "Trim" icon to set the Start time and End time of the clip or you can directly drag the slide bar to the accurate position.

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5:Crop
By using the “Crop” function you can crop the black edge of your video and you can also drag the line around the video image to adjust your video to your Google Phone.

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Part 2: How to convert HD video on Windows

Step 0: Download and install Tipard HD Video Converter.

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Step 1:Click the "Add File" button to load video file.
Step 2: Video settings
Select the output video format you want from the drop-down list of profile.
Note:
By cicking the "Settings" button, you can set the video parameters and audio tract.
The settings interface is shown below:

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Additionally, you can set your own profile and data by selecting “User Defined” in the profile or in settings interface saved as your choice.

Step 3: Select the output path. You can choose the default path or select your own path by clicking “Browse” button after you have set the file on the computer.
Step 4: Click the "Start" button to start conversion. It is very fast and in a short while your conversion will be finished.

The main functions of the HD video converter are shown below:

1:Snapshot
If you like the current image of the video you can use the “Snapshot” option, just click the “Snapshot” button and the image will be saved and then click the “Open” button next to “Snapshot” button to open your picture.
2:Merge
If you want to merge several videos into one file you can choose them at one time and click the “Merge into one file” to do it.
3:Effect
Click “Effect” button you can do these actions: adjusting brightness, contrast and saturation of the video. You can easily adjust the video through two windows in the same interface.

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4:Trim
If you just want convert a clip of your video, then you can use the "Trim" icon to set the Start time and End time of the clip or you can directly drag the slide bar to the accurate position.

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5:Crop
By using the “Crop” function you can crop the black edge of your video and you can also drag the line around the video image to adjust your video to your Google Phone.

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All operation is completed with several clicks.

If you want to learn more, here Tipard Studio.

Now you can enjoy your videos on your portable players at any time and anywhere!

iPhone Video Converter

FLV Converter

FLV converter for mac can convert FLV to AVI, WMV, MPEG on Mac, as well as to MP4, MOV, 3GP, etc. It also can SWF, WMV, ASF, 3GP to what you want formats. FLV converter is specially designed to convert FLV files to iPod, iPhone, Apple TV, PSP, Zune, Pocket PC, BlackBerry, even all the popular Windows mobile devices. Video Converter for Mac can convert AVI, MP4, MPG, MOD, TOD, MOV, MKV, WMV, DivX, XviD, MPEG-1/2, 3GP, 3G2, VOB, MOV, MPV, FLV, and HD videos(HD TS, HD MTS, HD M2TS, HD WMV, etc).  It also has strong editing functions of trimming, cropping, effecting and snapshot. It can merge your selected chapters into one file. It has Conversion Speed.

Mac DVD Ripper can rip DVD to AVI, MPEG, MPG, WMV, DivX, XviD, RM, MOV, FLV, 3GP, 3GP2, MP4, HD MP4, TS... and Audio formats such as MP3, WAV, WMA, AAC, AC3, AAC, AIFF, AMR, AU, FLAC, MP2, OGG, etc. Video Converter for Mac can convert AVI, MP4, MPG, MOD, TOD, MOV, MKV, WMV, DivX, XviD, MPEG-1/2, 3GP, 3G2, VOB, MOV, MPV, FLV, and HD videos(HD TS, HD MTS, HD M2TS, HD WMV, etc) for your iPhone, iPod, Sansa, Sony Walkman, Creative Zen, Apple TV, Nokia, PSP, Zune, etc. DVD Software Toolkit for Mac can rip DVD to any other video/audio formats and convert between all video/audio formats for all the portable players. Support the file transfer between iPod/iPhone and Mac local disk. For iPhone users, use iPhone Ringtone Maker to make your own ringtone from your own video/audio sources.

Mod Converter can convert MOD, TOD, MPEG, MPG, MPV, MP4, VOB files to the popular video formats: MP4, MPG, MOV, VOB, AVI, 3GP, FLV, etc. It can also extract audio from Mod and Tod video and convert Mod/Tod to MP3, AAC, AC3, WAV, MID, MIDI, WMA, M4A, RA, RAM, etc.. Mod Converter for Mac can convert your .Mod files to FLV Mac for YouTube, Myspace and Google Video, etc, as well as to your portable player. DVD Ripper can easily rip dvd to MP4, H.264, AVI, MP3, WMV, WMA, FLV, MKV, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, 3GP, 3GPP, VOB, DivX, Mov, RM, RMVB, M4A, AAC, WAV, etc. It also has strong editing functions of trimming, cropping, effecting and snapshot. It can merge your selected chapters into one file. It provides more settings for you to choose such as sutitle and audio track and the parameters for the converted audio and video.

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HD Converter is the fast HD Converter to convert HD video to general video, convert general video to HD video, convert among HD videos, such as HD TS, HD MTS, HD WMV, HD MPG, HD MPEG4, H.264/AVC , HD AVI, HD ASF. DVD Rip software can makes you enjoy DVD videos in the palm of your hands, enables you to watch them anywhere and anytime on any portable players. AVI MPEG Converter can help you convert AVI to MPEG, convert MPEG to AVI. It also supports converting other videos to AVI, MPEG, like MOV, WMV, ASF, RM ,etc, even from HD videos. Plus, convert AVI/MPEG and other videos/audios to AAC, MP3, M4A, MP2 audio.

iPhone Ringtone Converter can convert almost all mainstream video/audio formats including MPEG, WMV, MP4, DivX, MOV, RM, AAC, WMA, MP3 to iPhone ringtone M4R to create iPhone Ringtone. iPhone Transfer can transfer music and movies from iPhone to computer including MP4, M4V, MP3, WMV, M4A, M4B, M4P with great ease. iPhone Video Converter can convert almost all the videos including HD videos, SWF, FLV, VOB, MOD, MP4, H.264, M4V, AVI, WMV, 3GP, 3GPP, MOV, DivX, XviD, QuickTime Video, DV, MJPG, MJPEG, MPV, MPEG, MPEG2, MPG, etc to iPhone/iPhone 3G MP4 and H.264 video formats.

FLV converter for mac can convert FLV to AVI, WMV, MPEG on Mac, as well as to MP4, MOV, 3GP, etc. It also can SWF, WMV, ASF, 3GP to what you want formats. FLV converter is specially designed to convert FLV files to iPod, iPhone, Apple TV, PSP, Zune, Pocket PC, BlackBerry, even all the popular Windows mobile devices. Video Converter for Mac can convert AVI, MP4, MPG, MOD, TOD, MOV, MKV, WMV, DivX, XviD, MPEG-1/2, 3GP, 3G2, VOB, MOV, MPV, FLV, and HD videos(HD TS, HD MTS, HD M2TS, HD WMV, etc).  It also has strong editing functions of trimming, cropping, effecting and snapshot. It can merge your selected chapters into one file. It has Conversion Speed.

Mac DVD Ripper can rip DVD to AVI, MPEG, MPG, WMV, DivX, XviD, RM, MOV, FLV, 3GP, 3GP2, MP4, HD MP4, TS... and Audio formats such as MP3, WAV, WMA, AAC, AC3, AAC, AIFF, AMR, AU, FLAC, MP2, OGG, etc. Video Converter for Mac can convert AVI, MP4, MPG, MOD, TOD, MOV, MKV, WMV, DivX, XviD, MPEG-1/2, 3GP, 3G2, VOB, MOV, MPV, FLV, and HD videos(HD TS, HD MTS, HD M2TS, HD WMV, etc) for your iPhone, iPod, Sansa, Sony Walkman, Creative Zen, Apple TV, Nokia, PSP, Zune, etc. DVD Software Toolkit for Mac can rip DVD to any other video/audio formats and convert between all video/audio formats for all the portable players. Support the file transfer between iPod/iPhone and Mac local disk. For iPhone users, use iPhone Ringtone Maker to make your own ringtone from your own video/audio sources.

The Best and Fastest Way to Upload HD Videos of MOD, TOD, AVCHD Videos to YouTube

With the digital products overflowing in the market, more and more HD camcorder users may be into the situation like how to upload the HD videos on web-sharing sites, like YouTube, Yahoo, Google, etc. or how to watch the HD videos direactly on iPod, iPhone, PSP, Zune, PS3, Creative Zen, etc. or how to import the HD videos to iMovie, Final Cut Pro, etc. for further editing. Here I will share the best and easiest way to solve it via a good program-- Moyea HD Video Converter for Mac according to my own experience.
 
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First we should know that YouTube videos are usually in the formats of FLV/F4V while HD videos have the formats like AVCHD(TS/MTS/M2TS), TOD, MOD. And HD videos involves display resolutions of 1280×720 pixels (720p) or1920×1080 pixels (1080i/1080p).

Part 1: How to import HD camcorder into Mac(Snow Leopard)?
Just take Sony HDR files as an example: First you should prepare a 4 pin or 6 pin cable, for most camcorders connect to Mac via a 4 pin cable end as well as a 6 pin end sometimes.
Step 1. Set your camcorders to the right mode for importing photos and videos.
Step 2. Local the 4 pin firewire port on your camcorders.
Step 3. Take the other end of the firewire cable once the camcorders connected, and insert it into the firewire port on Mac. Only if both of cables are connected, you can turn on the power to your camcorder.
Step 4. The Mac will launch iMovie automatically after a while. And then follow the on-screen instruction on it to begin transferring the videos from your camcorders to Mac.

Part two: How to convert the HD files into FLV or F4V on Mac?
Free download Moyea HD Video Converter for Mac, then install and run it.
Step 1. Add the HD files into this program by clicking the “Add” button.
 
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Step 2. Set the output video/audio format as FLV or F4V workable to YouTube as well as set the output parameters of the conversion by clicking the “Settings” button to open the Setting panel as below:
 
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In addition, it allows you select the optimized resolution according to your devices, like 320*240, 640*480, 768*576, etc.
Step 3. Selcet the destination folder by clicking the “Browse”.
Step 4. Start conversion
 
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After the whole conversion, what you need to do now is just to open the destination folder and upload the converted file on YouTube, Google, Yahoo, etc.

Tips: the big reason I choosed Moyea HD Video Converter for Mac is that it adopts advanced audio/video synchnization to prevent any audio/video issues.

This DVD Converter Suite is a combination of DVD Ripper and video converter. It can Rip DVD and Convert video to almost any video formats for iPod/iPhone/PSP/Zune/Zen/PS3/Xbox/Archos/iRiver and other portable devices.

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Key Features: (Download here: DVD Converter Suite)

1: Convert DVD movie to video/audio
Powerful DVD Converter to convert DVD movie to AVI, MP4, MPEG, WMV, 3GP, HD video, MP3, WMA etc by DVD Ripper Platinum.

2: Convert video files to any other format you want
Versatile video file converter to convert videos between MPG, MPEG, MPEG2, VOB, MP4, AVI, M4V, RM, RMVB, WMV, etc and HD video and extract audio from these video by Video Converter Platinum.

3: Merge, effect, trim, crop – multifunctional editing functions
Merge several files into one for your successive enjoyment, adjust the DVD movie brightness, contrast, saturation, and volume, get any time length segments from your DVD movie or video files, crop the DVD movie or video files play region and adjust the output aspect ratio with the help of 4Videosoft DVD Converter Suite.

4: Customize output parameters
Adjust the DVD movie and video Encoder, Resolution, Frame Rate, Bitrate, Sample Rate, Channels. In addition, you can input your own-set Resolution. All the well-customized settings can be saved as user-defined settings for your later use.

5: Deinterlacing
For interlaced DVD movie and video, check Deinterlacing for you to get the progressive video and avoid mosaic.

6: Take picture, select DVD audio track and subtitle
Capture your favorite pictures when you preview your DVD movie or video files and saved in the default folder automatically, select DVD audio track and subtitle based on your needs.

7: Support instant preview
You can preview both your source video/DVD video and the effect of converted video simultaneously in the same window.

8: Fastest conversion speed
Provide the fastest conversion speed (>300%), completely support dual core CPU.

 

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Mod Converter can convert MOD, TOD, MPEG, MPG, MPV, MP4, VOB files to the popular video formats: MP4, MPG, MOV, VOB, AVI, 3GP, FLV, etc. It can also extract audio from Mod and Tod video and convert Mod/Tod to MP3, AAC, AC3, WAV, MID, MIDI, WMA, M4A, RA, RAM, etc..

Mod Converter can convert MOD, TOD, MPEG, MPG, MPV, MP4, VOB files to the popular video formats: MP4, MPG, MOV, VOB, AVI, 3GP, FLV, etc. It can also extract audio from Mod and Tod video and convert Mod/Tod to MP3, AAC, AC3, WAV, MID, MIDI, WMA, M4A, RA, RAM, etc.. Mod Converter for Mac can convert your .Mod files to FLV Mac for YouTube, Myspace and Google Video, etc, as well as to your portable player. DVD Ripper can easily rip dvd to MP4, H.264, AVI, MP3, WMV, WMA, FLV, MKV, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, 3GP, 3GPP, VOB, DivX, Mov, RM, RMVB, M4A, AAC, WAV, etc. It also has strong editing functions of trimming, cropping, effecting and snapshot. It can merge your selected chapters into one file. It provides more settings for you to choose such as sutitle and audio track and the parameters for the converted audio and video.