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Creator 2010 is the latest suite of burning tools from burning gods Roxio. Since the inception of the CD burner, Roxio has been there with their Creator software. I don’t actually remember what the original version was called or what exactly it did but I suspect that you could burn data to CD and create music cd’s. Not exactly exciting by today’s standards but in the day it was extremely exciting.

Fast forward to today, now it is standard to be able to Burn DVD Movies, create digital photo slideshows, makes regular pc backups, capture old LP’s, and convert video to ipod’s. This is just a little sampleing of what you can expect in the new Creator 2010.

To learn more about the latest Creator 2010 click here.

Ok for those of you that must have or would like to be able to put your existing DVD movies onto your iPod, iPod Touch, or iPhone this is the article you want to read, because we will be going over what you need to do this and to show you how easy it is to actually do.

Here are the steps to follow on a Windows based machine:

1. Download the iPod Video Converter + DVD to iPod Converter suite
Download Cucusoft iPod Video Converter + DVD to iPod here. Afterwards, install and run.

2. Load your DVD

Cucusoft’s iPod Video Converter Suit has a neat, blue user interface that is intuitive and easy to use. There should be three buttons to the right of the interface that says: Video to iPod, DVD to iPod, and Quit (for quitting the program). Click DVD to iPod converter component before loading your DVD. To load your DVD, click ‘Open DVD’ button or choosing ‘Open DVD’ from the ‘File’ drop down menu. After loading, several titles will appear on the list.

Here’s a tip: If you want to rip chapters or segments you like, you can also select ‘Open VOB or Mpeg’ or ‘Open IFO’ from the ‘File’ menu.

3. Selecting Files
The main file of the movie should be the longest title. If you don’t like to convert the other titles (usually the special features in your DVD), you can remove them by choosing that particular title, right-clicking and ‘Remove.’

4. Saving Video Files
At the bottom part of the list of chapter titles, you will see several more options. Look for the one that says ‘Subtitle’ beside a drop down menu box. Click on the arrow down radio button to set the ‘Subtitle’ to what you like. To ‘Output Folder’, enter the full path name or choose the path where you want to save your video files by clicking ‘Output Folder.’

5. Convert
To start ripping DVD to iPod video files, just click on the huge circular ‘Convert’ button at the bottom right side of the user interface. You do not need to set ‘Input settings’ and ‘Output settings.’

Of course, the Cucusoft way is only one way of doing it. If you find that converting DVDs to iPod using Cucusoft’s suite is too tedious, especially if you get into trouble during the conversion process, then you might want to check out this alternative way of converting videos to your iPod.

Again, the PQDVD Converter suite is for Windows users only.
Download PQDVD Converter Here

For those of you that are trying to get MP4 videos to playback on Windows Media Player you will need to download a MP4 codec from Microsoft. Look for filename WM9Codecs.exe on http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=06fcaab7-dcc9-466b-b0c4-04db144bb601&displaylang=en

This codec should get you playing MP4 videos within your WMP.

It is hard to overestimate the role that the internet has played in recent years for multimedia and entertainment, including downloading MP4 files. There was a time when the only kind of audio you could download was minuscule midi files. And that was about the limit of what you could carry from one computer to another, because all the removable medium you had in those days was the measly floppy disk. At that time, if you told anyone they would be able to download and carry hundreds of music files of the highest quality and with stereo sound, it would have sounded like science fiction. But then came the MP3.

Now, something similar is happening with the MP4. Only this time it is about video, and not audio & data.

Imagine waking up in the morning and wanting to watch some latest Hollywood box office hit. You go to your favorite site for MP4 downloading, perhaps make an online payment with your credit card, and in a few minutes you have it on your hard disk. Then you upload it to your portable MP4 player, and take it with you on your way to work. Watch it on the bus or train, watch it during the lunch break, or even watch it during work hours on a particularly slow day. Back home, take it to bed with you. If it’s romantic stuff, watch it with your spouse in bed, lying side by side, your heads close together. Sounds like a pretty good thing to me; what’s your feeling?

Yes, this has now become possible, thanks to MP4 technology. MP4 uses high-class codecs for encoding and decoding (incidentally, that’s where the name comes from) video data into compressed format (thus reducing file size) while not compromising on visual quality too much. This results in high quality movies which are nevertheless so small that they can be distributed over the internet, mainly through MP4 download sites and services, and also carried easily on recordable media or lightweight personal players.

There has been a great expansion in storage media capacity and bandwidth in recent times, and this has certainly helped the online multimedia boom. But surely a larger part is played by modern high-quality movie encoding technology, which makes MP4 downloading possible.

Convert MP4 to MP3, Convert M4A to MP3, Convert AAC to MP3. MP4 to MP3 Converter can convert many video/audio files to MP3!

Download MP4/M4A to MP3 Converter here.

The term MP4 is most often associated with video, while the term MP3 is almost universally recognized to be about music. How can then one convert MP4 to MP3, and what can be the reason to do so?

A decade ago, audio compression was the biggest thing in multimedia applications. There was a time when the only kind of audio you could possibly download from the internet was minuscule midi files. And that was about the limit of what you could carry from one computer to another, because all the removable medium you had in those days was the measly floppy disk. But then came the MP3.

Now, the same thing has happened with video. With the help of modern video compression technologies, it has become possible to put small yet high-quality video files on hand-held, portable personal video players. And the commonest type of file used by these is the MP4.

However, not all MP4 files contain video. The MP4 file format is able to contain video, but nothing says that it has to contain video. It may just contain an audio stream, and that would play perfectly well in any capable MP4 player. In fact, the hugely popular online music store iTunes sells its music in MP4 format. You shall notice that iTunes files have the .m4a extension. This is Apple’s way of indicating that these are MP4 files with only an audio stream in them, and no video.

But not everyone owns an iPod or some other MP4 player. MP3 players have been with us for a decade or more, and MP4 players haven’t yet been able to beat them in numbers. So when you want to listen that catchy tune you caught on your friend’s iPod, but own only a couple-of-years-old MP3 player, you need a tool that can convert MP4 to MP3.

The good news is that the audio stream inside MP4 files is nothing other than the good old MP3, merely inserted in a different package. So it is really trivial to extract this stream and save it as a different file that can be played on your old player. Several tools are available including MP4/M4A to MP3 Converter (Download Here). Get yourself one and convert MP4 to MP3 to your heart’s content!

Note: MP4 to MP3 Converter can also convert other media files to MP3 files, these media files may include WAV, OGG, WMA, WMV, ASF, ASX, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, MP4, M4A, AAC, MOV, QT, 3GP, and so on.

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