Thursday, July 9, 2015

Extract Audio from DVD as AC3 5.1 Channel Audio File

Still have trouble about only extracting audio from DVD? Is it possible to rip music and audio from DVD for playing on watching your phones or burning to play on your car or teaching lessons on class? Therefore, Pavtube as Top DVD Audio Ripper, an up-to-date DVD backup solution provider, chooses AC3 which is more frequently used in DVD as the output audio format to satisfy the needs of the masses. You can extract the audio from the DVD disc, and convert DVD to AC3 5.1 Channel Audio File. 

Hot Search: Audio on Apple Watch | AAC to AC3/MP3 in VLC | Pure Audio to PonoPlayer | Blu-ray with 7.1 audio | 
   
What Can AC3 File Be Applied to?
   
AC3 audio can be played by VLC, WMV, and common players for DVD. If you cannot play AC3 file directly, try to install an AC-3 filter on your computer. Furthermore, extracting audio from DVD has other applications besides enjoying the original DVD sound:
Getting audio from a DVD is useful for further edition. The extracted audio from DVD can be added to the self-created video for some video edition lovers. The uses can be more only if you can imagine. 
  
“I teach listening in a college. In order to develop the interests of my students and make my class more vivid, I decided to play the audios of hot movies on the class for listening training. I have, to keep pace with the times, some latest DVD movies but I wonder if it is possible to get audio from a DVD?” 

The answer is absolutely yes! Pavtube DVDAid  ripping audio off DVD saves more time than ripping video to a great extent. There is a click-and-go way to grab only the audio from a DVD and save it as AC3/5.1 channel audio file. What’s better, you can also select the title you need for audio extraction while letting other unnecessary titles go to spend less time and make the extracted AC3 file smaller. With it, you can easily extract songs from DVD and convert DVD to AC3 5.1 Channel Audio File. Read the review.

Note: If you are Mac users, try DVDAid for Mac, you can easily convert DVD to AC3 5.1 Channel Audio File on Mac OS X E1 Capitan

How to only Extract AC3 Audio from DVD in a Simple Way?

Get a free trial and follow the guide below:

          

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- Pavtube old official address: http://www.pavtube.cn/dvd_ripper/
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Step 1. Free download Pavtube DVDAid, install and launch the program.

After running Pavtube DVDAid, just click “Load disc” button to load source .DVD files.



Step 2. Select AC3 audio as output format for playing.

Move your cursor to Format and choose “Common Audio> AC3 – Dolby Digital AC-3(*.ac3)” as below:



As listed above, there are several presets for other audio format; just choose one as your needs.

Step 3. Adjust audio specs and trim audio length (optional).

Tip 1: If you are not satisfied with the default audio quality, just click the “Settings” icon and choose wanted audio settings including sample rate, bitrate and audio channel.

Tip 2: If you only want to extract one clip that contains background music from DVD, you can click “Edit” icon. On the “Video Editor” Window, you can play and preview the original video and output effects. Also you can flip video, trim, add effect, reset, and adjust volume.

The “Trim” feature allows users to decide where to start and where to end when converting the selected clip, so that unwanted segments will be cut out after conversion.



To set your audio length, please switch to “Trim” tab in “Video Editor” Interface and follow any of the methods below:

1. Drag the control sliders to include the segment you want to remain.
2. Click the left square bracket to set start point, and click the right square bracket to set end point when previewing the video.
3. Input specific values to “Start” and “End” box.

Trim frame by frame

Pavtube DVDAid offers “Previous Frame” and “Next Frame” options for users to select frames and trim accurately.

Step 4. Start converting DVD to AC3 audio files.

Now back to the main interface and hit “Convert” to convert your DVD files to AC3 audio files. It will start batch conversion automatically one by one. Wait for a while during the progress; after it completed, click “Open output folder” to locate the converted audio file.

Minutes later, you will get the converted files from this DVD to AC3 5.1 Channel Audio File converter on your computer, import them to your devices and now enjoy the beautiful music anytime anywhere you like! 

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Monday, July 6, 2015

1:1 Copy DVD to Watch Any DVD Movies via Mac Mini

Real Customer overview from Pavtube: 

“ I prefer the original format (VIDEO_TS for regular DVDs, and I don't know for Blu-rays, as I have not started yet.) I watch on my television screen only. The bigger screen the better, so no phone, no tablet, nothing else. I watch them at leisure. Eventually research on the Science Fiction ones and store them on external hard drives linked to my Macmini media server. I find that Pavtube irritating to the extreme. If my friend had not recommended your product, this saturation advertising strategy would have absolutely turned me AWAY from your company.” 

Tips for Mac users: QuickTime Alternative | Blu-ray to H.265 MP4 Mac | Play H.265/HEVC with VLC | Import H.265 to iTunes |

One common question always puzzle you that want to play DVD films on Mac Mini? Here is the answer. If you’re HD movie lover and wish to add DVD movies to the newly built Mac HTPC, Pavtube BDMagic for Mac is a good combination. This top Mac Mini DVD Player copies protected Blu-ray and DVD movie to your Mac HTPC with highly quality. In that way you can play DVD movie on Mac Mini HTPC without quality loss. The following guide tells how to copy/rip DVD movies to Mac Mini HTPC with Pavtube BDMagic for Mac. 

Preparations:

1. Mac mini
2. external BD drive
3. source Blu-ray Discs.
4. Pavtube Mac Mini Blu-ray Player (The software is able to back up Blu-ray movies and commercial DVDs for Mac HTPC Media Center without quality loss or compress the BD and DVD movies to MOV, MP4, MKV, M4V,  etc. in perfect sync.) Read the review
      
  

Make 1:1 Copy DVD to Watch Any DVD Movies via Mac Mini

Step 1. Load DVDs, also Blu-rays

Run Mac Mini HTPC converter on Mac, It work on both with Mac OS X 10.9 and Yosemite 10.10 perfectly. and load Blu-ray/DVD movies by clicking “File” > “Load from disc.” For Blu-ray import, an external or internal Blu-ray is required to read your Blu-ray disc.



Step 2. Choose “Directly Copy” to backup the main content. 

Under “Format” menu, there are many formats and devices for you to choose. If you just want to backup the main content of the DVD, go to find “Copy” option and choose “Directly Copy” that can meet your demands well. 



Tips: Here, we can recommend you Pavtube ByteCopy for Mac, you can get the container format with multiple audio tracks and subtitles included. Besides retaining multiple audio tracks and multiple subtitles in an video files without transcoding and quality loss. A simple guide about DVD to lossless MKV. For more movie entertainment, read this Pavtube Softwares Comparison review to get more multimedia tools.
   
Step 3. Start ripping.

Click big “Convert” button to start conversion. It won’t take much time for conversion and then you will get the main content of the DVD. Once completed, hit “Open” button you will go to location of generated files. 

After you finished all the tasks, you can transfer the converted DVD files on Mac Mini. Have fun! 
   
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Thursday, July 2, 2015

Best Workflow to Edit Nabi Square HD 4K Video in FCP

As the development of technology, there are more and more 4K support cameras come out like Nabi Square. If you want to edit 4K videos in non-linear editing programs i.e. Final Cut Pro, you might need to take time to convert before you can start post production. That’s because FCP can’t support 4K resolution video. And this article will show an easiest way. 


Fuhu Announces Nabi Square HD -- the 4K Camera Created to Capture Childhood

Nabi Square HD™, the first-ever 4K action camera for kids that is shock-proof, drop-proof and waterproof without a case, built for the rugged and extreme adventures of childhood. Unlike most high quality cameras that require protective gearing and an attentive parent, nabi Square HD was created for parents to comfortably leave the camera with their kids to capture child's most daring and precious moments -- whether biking for the very first time or child's first trip to the beach. nabi Square HD is designed to work with a child's outdoor activities such as biking, running, jumping or swimming, while capturing the most vivid and crisp still image in 8MP or video in 4K. 

Powerful and durable, nabi Square HD is a professional grade camera dedicated to capture the extremeness of childhood and family-first moments through the eyes of a child. It's also more powerful, and supports 4K video recording at 15 fps, 2.7k recording at 30 fps, 1080p at 60 fps and high-speed, 120 fps capture at 720p. 

Tips for Editing: Edit ALEXA Mini video in iMovie | H.265 to Avid Media Composer | XAVC S to Avid Media Composer |

How to Convert Nabi Square HD 4K video to ProRes for editing in Final Cut Pro

The latest version of the FCP X support import video resolution up to 5K, why FCP 7 and FCP X can’t import 4K video files? Obvious, resolution isn’t a problem, video format is a major cause. Different video format has different video and audio codec, FCP doesn’t support all formats importing. Such as FCP X and FCP 7 can’t import 4K Nabi Square HD 4K video files. If you want to have a smooth Nabi Square HD 4K video and FCP workflow, you are advised to convert 4K video to ProRes for further editing in FCP.  Learn>> FCP X video file format

At first, I introduce a powerful high-quality 4K video converter, player and editor on Mac OS X - Pavtube iMedia Converter for Mac can deliver you a whopping help. The program can effortlessly encode/re-encode 4K MP4, XAVC, XAVC S, etc footage to advanced encoders like Apple ProRes, Apple Intermediate Codec, MPEG-2, DNxHD, etc. to seamlessly fit for Final Cut Pro, iMovie/FCE, Adobe Premiere Pro, Avid Media Composer and more. Plus, this 4K Video Converter is also available to customize the output resolutions to any size like 1080p, 2K, 4K as users want. Just download it and keep reading for a brief how-to on each process. 

Read the Review: Import H.265/HEVC to FCP X | Choose Best Suitable Editing Programs

Step-by-Step Guide:

Step 1: Download and have a quick installation. 

The trial version will have a watermark on your converted files. Except for that, there are no time limitation, no virus, and no unnecessary bundle apps while downloading. After that, click “Add Video” button to load your 4K files. 



Step2: Choose ProRes MOV for output format

Clicking the Format bar, you can click “Final Cut Pro” >> “Apple ProRes Codes 422 (*.mov)” as output format from the format list. (Read difference about Types of Apple ProRes Codecs). 



Step 3: (Necessary point) How to preserve 4K resolution with output videos


In order to get the output videos with 4K resolution, we should click the ‘Settings’ and get in to set the ‘Video size’ to ‘4K’. However, there are no ‘4K’ items we need to tap the ‘4096*2160’ in the blank. That’s the necessary step we need to do here. 

Finally, when you go back to the main interface, of course we can click the “Convert” icon to make our work started. From Nabi Square HD 4K Video to FCP ProRes 4K, is that cool? Easily transfer your 4K files to FCP for professional workflow, we can enjoy ourselves then! 

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Monday, June 29, 2015

Full disc copy Blu-ray with keeping 7.1 audio

As you know, Blu-ray comes with lossless audio quality. You are definitely love Blu-ray audio with the high quality sound experience. There are mainly three lossless audio codecs used in Blu-ray disc: PCM, Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD MA. And the Dolby TrueHD technology and DTS-HD Master Audio can deliver unprecedented home theater experience, so there may be no one willing to loose the wonderful audio while backup a Blu-ray movie. If you have collected lots of original BD disc and want to keep the Dolby TrueHD 7.1 audio from Blu-ray discs. Here we will give you an easy fix. 
The thing is that most Blu-ray rippers in the market can not recognize the two stunning audios at all, and this may be the probable thing that troubles you a lot. With luck, Pavtube ByteCopy is here for you, which is able to read TureHD audio and DTS Master Audio, and output them as 7.1 channels. (Read ByteCopy review).Here, Pavtube offers three ways for keeping 7.1 audio channels, one is Full disc copy, another is directly copy, third is that convert blu-ray to lossless mkv with Dolby TrueHD 7.1 audio from Blu-ray discs.

The top Blu-ray Copying tool is able to read TureHD audio and output 7.1 TrueHD passthrough. It supports convert Bluy-ray (with Dolby TrueHD 7.1) to a common video with TrueHD 7.1 audio pass through as you want and even lossless Blu-ray to MKV conversion keeping the original audio tracks, chapter info and subtitles without to do any parameter settings. Mac version is Pavtube ByteCopy for Mac. Below we take the example how to using the Pavtube ByteCopy to convert Blu-ray with TrueHD 7.1 audio.

Full Disc Copy Blu-ray with keeping 7.1 audio using Top Blu-ray Copying tool
 

Step 1. Add Blu-ray movies

Insert Blu-ray Disc into your external or internal BD drive and launch the Blu-ray Ripping program. Click “disc” button to import Blu-ray movies for converting/copying.



Step 2. Choose an output folder

Click "Browse" button to select a destination folder for the output files.

Step 3. Decide Blu-ray Copy Mode for keeping 7.1 audio

Full Disc Copy Mode: Copy Disney Blu-ray Disc to a full Blu-ray folder containing all the content in original BD.  

As soon as the copying task finished, you can click "Open" button to locate the Blu-ray directory. The decrypted Blu-ray folder contains all information and contents in the original disc. Among them, the BDMV folder is the most important one with audio and video files in it. Open BDMV -> STREAM folder and you will find all the .m2ts movie clips. 

Tip: To keep TrueHD 7.1 audio, you can also choose “Common Video > WMV3(WMV9)(*.wmv)” as the output format, for it provides the 7.1 audio channels for you. But make sure the original BD disc does contain Dolby TrueHD audio, otherwise you still can’t get Dolby TrueHD 7.1 audio saved. 
  
Note: Make sure the original BD disc does contain Dolby TrueHD audio, otherwise you still can't get Dolby TrueHD 7.1 audio saved. 

Step 4. Play Blu-ray files on PC.
After the copy completed, you may click ‘Open’ buttonto locate the Blu-ray directory. Open BDMV-> STREAM folder and you will find all the m2ts movie clips. For playing the m2ts files, you may use VLC player orKMPlayer.

That’s it! Your Blu-ray video will now be encoded and a few hours later you will have a great high definition video file with preferred audio and subtitles using Pavtube ByteCopy with No Error. Have Fun!  

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Friday, June 26, 2015

Convert DVD to H.265 for iPhone 6/6 Plus on Mac

High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) or also called H.265 is a new video codec that compresses video files to 50% with the most proficient encoding format today. As seen on Apple’s iPhone tech specs webpage, both the iPhone 6 and its larger iPhone 6 Plus sibling leverage next-generation H.265 technology for encoding and decoding FaceTime video calls over cellular. So, a lot of Apple device users want to convert their DVD Movies to H.265 format since it's the best format for video experience. But How?Just keep on reading... 

* Read Apple TV Column | Embrace Extraordinary Experience With iPhone 6 (6 Plus) 



Is it possible to rip a DVD in the new H.265 Codec for better visual effects for iPhone 6/6 Plus via Mac? If you have got lots of DVD Movies and want to rip them to iPhone 6/6 Plus for enjoying at everywhere, converting DVD to H.265 MP4 is a wise choice. Yeah, When talking about DVD to H.265 rippers, the latest version of Pavtube BDMagic for Macis suggested by Mac users - Which is just updated with the H.265 decoder/encoder and rated as the best all-in-one Blu-ray to H.265 converter. (Pavtube Supported OS:Mac OS X 10.10 Yosemite, 10.9 Mavericks, 10.8 Mountain Lion, 10.7 Lion, Snow Leopard10.6, Leopard 10.5). Read the review

With this software, you can convert Blu-ray and DVD to H.265 MP4 in smaller size as possible and keep the almost same quality. Utilizing the highly efficient HEVC H.265 format in MP4 containers, it results in files with much more manageable sizes than the regular 25GB or 50GB Blu-ray discs we are used to. Besides H.265, it provides more regular video formats like MKV, AVI, WMV, MOV, FLV, WMV, etc. The exported files are playable on your computer as well as iOS devices, tablets & smart phones freely as you want. Now free try the Blu-ray ripper and follow the guide to accomplish the conversion.  

Download the best DVD to H.265/HEVC Video Converter on your Mac Yosemite and Windows 10:

  

Encode DVDs to H.265/HEVC MP4 video for iPhone 6/6 Plus on Mac OS X with ease

Step 1. Load DVD movies

Install and launch the best Mac DVD to H.265 Converter program. Just click disc icon to load your DVD movies. Beside, you can also load Blu-ray discs and do not miss insert your Blu-ray disc into your BD drive. You can also import movies files from Blu-ray/DVD folder, Blu-ray/DVD ISO/IFO Video files.



Step 2. Select H.265 as output format

Hit the “Format” box and select H.265 Video(*.mp4) from Common Video or H.265 HD Video(*.mp4) from HD Video profile. It enables you to rip DVD to H.265 .mp4 with the best quality for iPhone 6/6 Plus.



Tips:

1. If you wanna some advanced settings, you can click “Settings” icon to adjust the video, audio parameters bitare, frame rate, sample rate, audio channel, etc.



2. Plus, you can click “Edit” button to do some editing work cropping, trimming, settings effect, adding subtitles.

Step 3. Start DVD to H.265 conversion on Mac

Click “Convert” button and the program will rip DVD movies to H.265 mp4 video on Mac OS X immediately. You can easily find the output files in the output folders once the conversion is done and watch these wonderful DVD videos cozily on H.265 players as you like. 

iTunes media files syncing issue:

Don't know how to add files to iTunes library, you can have a reference at this article: Sync local contents to iTunes on Mac

Have no idea how to transfer iTunes media to iOS devices, find solution in this article: Sync media files from iTunes library to iPhone

Since it can help you to achieve your goal so easily, why not try this upgraded Blu-ray/DVD Ripper software now? 

Hot News! Pavtube Studio has launched a user-requested upgrade for full line of Pavtube products to version 4.8.6.2. Existing bugs, improvements and new elements for M3U8 encoding are added and has the capability of encoding or decoding H.265/HEVC files well. 

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