How to Convert DVD to Kindle Fire on Mac

In this guide, I'd like to show you how to convert DVD movies for playing on Kindle Fire, a tablet computer version of Amazon.com's Kindle e-book reader. First, let's take a look at the content formats supported by Kindle Fire:

Kindle (AZW), TXT, PDF, unprotected MOBI, PRC natively, Audible (Audible Enhanced (AA, AAX)), DOC, DOCX, JPEG, GIF, PNG, BMP, non-DRM AAC, MP3, MIDI, OGG, WAV, MP4, VP8

So, in order to view DVD movies on Kindle Fire, you just convert DVD to Kindle Fire compatible video format (MP4) and then transfer the output video to Kindle Fire via the USB port. Clone2Go DVD Ripper for Mac is the perfect choice for the conversion. Below are the steps:

1. Load DVD Movie

Download the latest version of Clone2Go DVD Ripper for Mac, install and run it.

Click the "Open DVD" button to load the DVD movie you are going to watch on your Kindle Fire. After the movie is imported, there is a list showing each DVD chapter/title. From the table, you can know about the Name, Duration, Video Size, etc about the DVD movie.



Note: Check out the longest DVD chapter/title, which is usually the main content of the DVD movie.

2. Choose Output Format

Go to the "Output" panel. Click the "Profile" drop-down list to choose the output format. To convert DVD to Kindle Fire video on Mac, choose the "Genearl Video" from the category. From the subcategory, choose MPEG-4 video as the output format.



3. Start Converting DVD to Kindle Fire on Mac

After making all necessary settings, click the "Convert Now" button to start to convert DVD to Kindle Fire on Mac.

4. Transfer Output to Kindle Fire

After the whole conversion, you can get the output files by clicking the Directory icon in the interface of the program. Then you can transfer the output files to your Kindle Fire via USB cable.

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How to import flv into iMovie for editing

The videos you downloaded from video streaming and video sharing websites such as YouTube, Google, Break, MySpace, Blip and Metacafe are generally saved in .flv format. If you are fond of any of the downloaded videos and want to import it to your iMovie project, you will be faced with the issue that iMovie doesn't accept FLV file format.

Since the video formats supported by iMovie include MPEG-2 and AVCHD, DV-Standard and HDV (High Definition Video), QuickTime Movie, MEPG-4, this issue boils down to video conversion from FLV to any of the iMovie friendly formats.

So, in the following step-by-step guide, I'd like to show you how to convert FLV to iMovie format using Clone2Go Video Converter for Mac, so that you can import flv into iMovie for editing.

Step 1. Add FLV Files

Download the latest version of Clone2Go Video Converter for Mac, install and run it.
Click the "Add Files" button to browse and import the .flv video clips downloaded to your Mac.



Step 2. Select Output Format: "MPEG-4 Movie (*.mp4)"

After the flv video files are imported, go to the "Output" panel. Click the "Profile" drop-down list to choose one of the formats that iMovie supports. Here, just choose "Customized MP4 Movie (*.mp4)".



Step 3. Start to convert

After all the necessary settings, just click the "Convert Now" button to start converting FLV to iMovie format on your Mac machine.

Step 4. Export the output file to iMovie

Launch iMovie, go to "File > Import > Movies...". Select the converted MP4 video then click "Import".



Below are a few tips while using Clone2Go Video Converter for Mac to convert FLV to iMovie format.

Tips 1. Trim video file

Sometimes, you may want only part of the video file. This Video Converter for Mac can help you trim the video file in two methods:

Method 1: Specify the "Start Time" and "Stop Time" under the manager panel within the accuracy of second.
Method 2: Trim the video while previewing it. In the "Preview" window, you can play the movie. Here, you can click the "Trim Begin" and "Trim End" buttons to get the certain part of the video while playing it back.



Tips 2. Customize Profile

You may not be satisfied with the profile provided to you. In this case, you can click the "Customize..." button next to "Profile" box to customize a profile. In the following "Profile Settings" Window, you can adjust Video Size, Frame Rate, Encoder, Bitrate; Audio Sample Rate, Channels, Encoder, Bitrate, etc to meet your specific needs.

Extract YouTube Video as MP3

In this guide, I'd like to show you how to extract YouTube music video as mp3. The only tool you need is Clone2Go Free Audio Converter, which lets you download videos from YouTube without any restriction. Besides, its audio conversion and extraction feature can help you easily extract the downloaded YouTube video as mp3.

Step 1. Download Music Video from YouTube

Download the latest version of Clone2Go Free Audio Converter and install it ( download link ). Launch the program.

Visit YouTube.com and open the YouTube music video you are going to download. Copy the URL of the video.

Click the "YouTube" button on the interface of Clone2Go Free Audio Converter. In the pop up dialog of "Import Video from Internet", paste the URL of the YouTube music video you copied just now.



You can add as many YouTube music videos as you want.



Double click the YouTube music videos one by one to get the downloading process started. The downloading status is clearly shown on the list.
Note: After the status of all of them indicates "Completed", you can get the downloaded music videos (in MP4, FLV or 3GP format) by clicking the "Folder" button in the interface of the program.

Step 2. Extract Downloaded YouTube Music Video as MP3

To extract the downloaded YouTube music video as mp3, you just need a few additional mouse clicks. Tick the downloaded music videos in the main panel, extend the "Profile" menu, choose "MP3 - MPEG Layer-3 Audio (*.mp3)" as the output format, hit the "Start Encode" button, Done!

Burn YouTube Videos to DVD

In one of my previous posts, I demonstrated how to download videos from YouTube for free using Clone2Go Free YouTube Downloader. The downloaded YouTube videos will be saved in mp4, 3gp or flv format.

If you'd like to backup these video files or watch them with your DVD player, you may choose to burn them to a DVD disc. Photo DVD Burner Professional is a pretty good choice for burning video files to DVD. This program is primarily used for creating photo slideshows. Yet, it also allows you to import video clips into the program so that you can choose to create a DVD slideshow with both video files and photos or burn video files to DVD only.

In the following guide, I'd like to show you how to burn the downloaded YouTube videos (.flv, .mp4 or 3gp) to DVD discs using Photo DVD Burner Professional.

Step 1. Add downloaded YouTube video files

Download and install Photo DVD Burner Professional. Click "Organize" -> "Add Video Clips..." to import FLV files.



Note: Photo DVD Burner Professional only supports .avi video format. You need to convert the videos from flv, 3gp or mp4 to avi first. You may go and download Clone2Go Free Video Converter to help you. Please remember to set the "video codec" to "msmpeg4v2" when using this converter.

Step 2. Choose DVD menus

After the video files are imported, directly go to the Choose Menus tab in the interface of the program to choose a DVD menu template. You can also specify background music and background image, set font style, size, color, etc to customize the menu template.



Step 3. Burn YouTube videos to DVD

Click the Burn Disc tab to go to the burning window. Extend the Output Format drop-down menu and choose DVD Video Disc. Then click the "Burn Now" button to start burning FLV video files to DVD discs.



Note: If you are using a Mac, please go to: How to Burn YouTube Videos to DVD on Mac?

How to Free Download YouTube Videos

YouTube is one of the most popular websites that offer streaming videos. In the following guide, I'd like to show you how to download videos from YouTube using Clone2Go Free YouTube Downloader.

Download the latest version of Free YouTube Downloader via this link. Install and launch the program.



Visit youtube.com and open the YouTube videos you are going to download. Copy the URL of each video. Note: You can get the URL of the video from the address bar of your browser.

Click the "YouTube" button in the main interface of Free YouTube Downloader. In the pop up window of "Import Video from Internet", paste the URL of the YouTube video you copied just now.



There will be a list of the added YouTube videos.



Tick the videos you are going to download. Right click any of the added video and choose "Download Selected Online FLV" from the drop-down list.



The downloading status is clearly shown on the list. After the status of all of them indicates "Completed", you can get the downloaded videos (.flv, .mp4 or .3gp) by clicking the "Folder" button in the main interface.

How to Transfer DVD Movies to iPad

The iPad is the first tablet computer developed by Apple Inc. It is part of a device category between a smartphone and a laptop computer. In the following guide, I'd like to show you how to convert DVD movies to iPad compatible video files and transfer DVD movies to iPad.

To begin with you need to know the video formats the Apple iPad can play.

The Video Formats Supported by Apple iPad Include

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

Now to transfer the DVD movies, what you need to do is simply rip the DVD movies into a video format supported by iPad. After you have the files in a compatible format upload them into your iPad through the sync of iTunes library.

To convert DVD movies to iPad video files you need to download the Clone2Go DVD to iPad Converter.

So are you all set? Let's start the process now.

Step 1

First open the DVD to iPad Converter.

Add DVD files.

If the DVD movie you need to convert is on your disc drive, click on the Open DVD button.

In case you have saved it in a hard drive, click the Add Video button and locate the folder.

Locate the path of the folders VIDEO_TS and AUDIO_TS. Select the .vob files and click OK.



Once the DVD has been been imported you can watch it on the main interface.

Here's your chance to pick the DVD you wish to play on your iPad. Select the portion you want to play. Drag from the Start to trim and Stop to trim button to select the segment.

Step 2

To choose the proper profile look for the drop-down list of Profile option on the right. Choose the profile that suits you best. Like for instance if you want to play the video in MPEG-4 choose the iPad MPEG-4 Video from the list of profiles.



Step 3

Click on the Start Encode button to start ripping DVD's for iPad.

Step 4

After the ripping is complete, go to the Folder button on the main menu to get the converted video files.

You are done. Now upload them into your iPad through the sync of iTunes library and start playing.

Burn YouTube Video to DVD on Mac (OS X Lion)

The following guide is going to show you how to download YouTube video, convert YouTube video and burn YouTube video to DVD on Mac (including OS X Lion) for free. It is composed of the following two parts:

Part 1. How to Free Download YouTube Video on Mac

1. Download Free YouTube Downloader for Mac, install and run it.



2. Visit YouTube.com and go to the YouTube video page you'd like to download to your Mac. Copy the video link from the address bar of your browser.

Paste the link to the "Video Link:" box and click the "+Add" button, then it will be added to the manager panel at the top of the interface. To add more videos, just copy and paste the link to the the box and click the "+Add" button again. Then there will be a list of URL of Videos showing in the manager panel.



3. Choose the output format you need from the "Output Format" options.



4. Click the "..." button to locate to the folder you want to output the downloaded YouTube videos to.

Note: After the downloading and conversion process, you can click the "Folder" button to locate this folder and get the output videos.

5. Click the "Download" button to start downloading and converting YouTube videos.

Part 2. How to Free Burn YouTube Video to DVD on Mac

To burn the downloaded YouTube videos to DVD, you can turn to Apple iDVD, which allows you to add QuickTime Movies, MP3 music, and digital photos to a DVD that can then be played on a commercial DVD player.

Note: The downloaded YouTube videos may not be imported into iDVD project. In this case, it is recommended that you download Video Converter for Mac to convert the downloaded YouTube videos to QuickTime movies first.

1. Launch iDVD and create a new project.

2. In the new project, switch to the "Media" tab and then go to "Movies".

3. In the "Movies" tab, find the downloaded YouTube videos and drag them to the left panel of the project.



4. After all necessary settings such as background music, themes, buttons, drop zones, click "File" -> "Burn DVD..." to start burning YouTube videos to DVD on Mac. You may also choose to save the project as Disc Image or VIDEO_TS Folder.

Convert MSWMM and Burn MSWMM to DVD

What is MSWMM?

A *.MSWMM is a project file of Windows Movie Maker; it is not a video file (more like a record file).

How to Convert MSWMM Files?

You can open *.MSWMM file in Windows Movie Maker (click "File -> Open Project Project...") and save the movie to your computer: go to the "Tasks" bar, click "Finish Movie" and then click "Save to my computer".



Then Windows Movie Maker will ask you to enter a file name for your movie and choose a folder to save your movie. The movie will be saved as a WMV file in the PC.

After you have saved the MSWMM file to your computer hard drive as WMV video, you can now begin to convert the WMV file to the specific video format you need.

You may go and download Clone2Go Video Converter Professional to help you.



The steps are quite simple:

1. Import the WMV file to the program.
2. Choose an output format. For example, if you want to watch the movie on your iPad, you can choose "iPad MPEG-4 Movie" as the output format.
3. Start to convert.

How to Burn MSWMM to DVD?

To burn MSWMM to DVD, you will need DVD authoring software. Here, I'd recommend using Photo DVD Burner Professional. Below is the screenshot of this program:



Let's take a look at how it performs:

1. Click "Organize" -> "Add Video Clips..." to import the video into the program. Note: Photo DVD Burner Professional only supports .avi video format. So you need to convert WMV (saved from MSWMM) to AVI file first. You also need to set the "video codec" to "msmpeg4v2" before conversion.
2. Go to the "Choose Menus" tab to choose a DVD menu template. You can also specify background music and background image, set font style, size, color, etc to customize the menu template.
3. Go to the "Burn Disc" tab to start burning videos to DVD.

Edit DVD Movie in iMovie

If you are fond of some video clip from a DVD movie and want to edit it in Apple iMovie project, you got the right place! The following tutorial will share with you how to convert DVD to iMovie friendly video format and import DVD into iMovie for editing.

Video formats accepted by iMovie include MPEG-2 and AVCHD, DV-Standard and HDV (High Definition Video), QuickTime Movie, MEPG-4. In order to import DVD movie into iMovie, you need to convert DVD to iMovie compatible format first. It is very easy and fast to convert DVD to iMovie format using Clone2Go DVD Ripper for Mac.

Step 1. Add DVD Movie

Download the latest version of DVD Ripper for Mac, install and run it.

Click the "Open DVD" button to import your DVD movie. Or you can click the "File ->Open DVD Disc/Folder" in the top menu of Clone2Go DVD Ripper for Mac to add the DVD movie.



Step 2. Select Output Format: "MPEG-4 Movie (*mp4)"

After the DVD is imported, go to the "Output" panel. Click the "Profile" drop-down list to choose "MPEG-4 Movie (*mp4)" as the output format.



Step 3. Start Converting

When all settings are done, click the "Convert Now" button to start convert DVD to iMovie format.

Step 4. Export Output File to iMovie

Launch iMovie, go to "File > Import > Movies...". Select the converted MP4 video then click "Import".



That's it! Now you can edit your videos in iMovie. Enjoy making your own movies!



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