How to Create Photo DVD Slideshow for Wedding

There are numerous reasons to create a photo slideshow and wedding is on the top list. You may need to make photo slideshows for playing during the wedding receptions; you may have the idea of making a slide show of your favorite wedding photos; or you'd like to create a photo DVD slideshow in celebration of your wedding anniversary... Here you go! It is very easy to make photo slideshows for wedding and create wedding photo DVD slideshow with Photo DVD Burner Professional. Now let's take a look at how it performs:

Step 1. Organize Photos

Download and install Photo DVD Burner Professional. Launch it. Click the Organize Photos tab in Photo DVD Burner to create one or more albums, select wedding photos from a folder in your computer hard drive and add them to the album.

In the sub-tab of Album Photo, you can add or remove photos, rotate photos, set album thumbnail, arrange the order of the photos, etc. Note: Double-click one single photo in the album and you will be able to personalize the photos (transition, Pan & Zoom, Text, ArtClips, Subtitle, Brightness / Contrast, etc) one by one in the Photo Configuration window.

Switch to the Transition & Music tab, and you can set background music, apply transition effect, specify transition duration, photo duration, randomize photo transitions, etc.



In the Album Theme tab, there are lots of album themes available for you to choose from. You may also add separate images to the beginning and end of the album, and edit album beginning title and ending title, such as text, effect, duration, background color, etc.



Also you are allowed to preview the whole album before the conversion by clicking the Album Preview button.

Step 2. Choose Menus

Click the Choose Menus tab in the interface of Photo DVD Burner Professional to choose a menu template for the wedding slideshow. You can also specify the background music and background image, set font style, size, color, etc to customize the menu template.



Step 3. Burn Disc

Click the Burn Disc tab at the top menu to go to the conversion window. Then click the Output Format drop-down menu and choose the output format for the wedding slideshow. You can choose to burn wedding photo slideshows to DVD/Blu-ray discs or create wedding photo slideshows movie. The following formats are available for you to choose from.

Photo DVD Burner Professional can help you create wedding slideshow, birthday slideshow, baby slideshow, iPad photo slideshow, family slideshow, flash swf slideshow, etc.

How to Rip DVD to iPad Video on Mac OS X

Apple iPad supports MP4 format, so you just need a converter that will go from DVD to MP4 video if you want to watch DVD movies on your iPad. After you get the output files, transfer them to your iPad with the sync of iTunes library and you will take your DVD's on the go.

The following guide is going to show you how to rip DVD to iPad video on Mac and transfer DVD to iPad, iPad 2 using Clone2Go DVD to iPad Converter for Mac.

Step 1. Add DVD Movie

Download the latest version of Clone2Go DVD to iPad Converter for Mac, install and run it.

Click the "Open DVD" button to load the DVD movie you'd like to watch on your iPad. After the movie is imported, there is a list showing each DVD chapter/title. From the table, you will know the Name, Duration, Video Size, etc about the DVD movie.



Note 1: Check out the longest DVD chapter/title, which is usually the main content of the DVD movie.

Note 2: If you only want part of the DVD movie for viewing on your iPad, you can specify the "Start Time" and "Stop Time" under the manager panel. Alternatively, you can clip the DVD movie while previewing it.

Note 3: A common DVD movie has several audio tracks and subtitles. You can select any available DVD Audio and DVD Subtitle to convert.

Step 2. Choose Output Format

Go to the "Output" panel. Extend the "Profile" drop-down list and choose "Apple iPod/iPad" from the category. From the subcategory, choose "iPad H.264 Video", "iPad H.264 HD Video" or "iPad MPEG4 Video" according to your needs.



Step 3. Start Ripping DVD to iPad Video on Mac

After making all necessary settings, click the "Convert Now" button to start ripping DVD to iPad video on Mac.

Step 4. Transfer Output Video to iPad

After the conversion, you can click the "Folder" icon in the interface of the program to locate the output files. Launch iTunes on your Mac, and you will be able to transfer the output video to your iPad with the sync of iTunes library.

Clone2Go DVD to iPad Converter for Mac can also let you convert AVI to iPad, convert FLV to iPad, convert MKV to iPad, convert 3GP to iPad, convert WMV to iPad, convert VOB to iPad.

How to Convert WMV to iTunes Video on Mac?

iTunes Mac supports video formats such as MOV, MP4 and M4V. In order to import WMV files into iTunes library, you need to convert WMV to iTunes compatible video format first. It is very easy and fast to convert WMV to iTunes MOV, convert WMV to iTunes M4V, convert WMV to MP4 on Mac for transferring to iTunes library using WMV to iTunes Converter for Mac.

Step 1. Add WMV Files

Download the latest version of WMV to iTunes Converter for Mac, install and run it.

Click the "Add Files" button to import the WMV files stored on your Macintosh HD. Then you can get the video information in the manager panel.

Step 2. Select Output Format

Video formats accepted by iTunes library include MOV, M4V, MP4, etc.

After the WMV files are imported, go to the "Output" panel. Click the "Profile" drop-down list to choose the format that iTunes supports. For example, if you want to watch WMV files on iPad, choose "Apple iPod/iPad" from the category. From the subcategory, choose "iPad H.264 Video", "iPad H.264 HD Video" or "iPad MPEG4 Video" according to your needs.

Step 3. Start Converting

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

Step 4. Transfer Output Video to iTunes Mac

After the conversion process, launch your iTunes library. Then import the output video into the iTunes library.

How to Convert DVD to iPad Video on a Mac

How to convert MKV to AVI MP4 WMV

Matroska's MKV "universal" container is described by its developers as "the extensible open standard Audio/Video Container". This translates to a multimedia Container designed to support practically any type of video or audio stream you might care to use. MKV stands for Matroska Video. The project itself is simply called Matroska.

The following MKV video conversion guide is going to show you how to convert MKV to AVI, convert MKV to MP4 and convert MKV to WMV for your iPod, iPhone, Zune, PSP, BlackBerry and a lot more portable players.

The software you will need is Clone2Go Video Converter Pro. ( free download )

Now let's take a look at how it performs to convert MKV to AVI MP4 WMV with this professional MKV Video Converter:

Step 1. Download the latest version of Clone2Go Video Converter Pro from http://www.clone2go.com . Install and launch it.



Step 2. Click the "Add Video" button to import the MKV file. Alternatively, you can click "File -> Add Video Files..." to add MKV files. You can also batch import MKV files (folder) by clicking "File -> Batch Add Video Files".

Step 3. From the "Profile" drop-down list, you can choose the most appropriate output format. For example, if you want to convert MKV to AVI, you can navigate to "AVI Video" category and choose the format you need from the subcategory.



Note: You can also customize a specific profile to meet your needs as shown below:



Step 4. Click the "Start Encode" button to start to convert MKV to AVI, MKV to MP4 and MKV to WMV.

After the conversion is complete, you can click the "Folder" button in the main interface to access the output files.

How to convert DVD to iPod touch/nano/classic?

Apple iPod accepts MP4 format, so you just need a converter that will go from DVD to MP4 if you want to watch DVD movies on your iPod. After you get the output iPod compatible MPEG-4 videos converted from DVD's, drag them to your iPod with the sync of iTunes. Below is the step by step tutorial showing how to convert DVD to iPod touch, iPod nano and iPod classic.

The software you will need is Clone2Go DVD to iPod Converter. ( free download ) Let's take a look at how it performs:

1. Download Clone2Go DVD to iPod Converter. Install and run it.

2. Click the "Open DVD" button to load the DVD movie. Alternatively, you can click "File -> Open DVD..." to import the DVD disc. After the DVD is imported, there will be a list of DVD titles showing in the program. Note: If your DVD movie is saved as a folder in your computer hard drive, you need to click the "Add Video" button to locate and import the movie.



3. Tick the longest DVD title from the list. Double click this title and you will preview the movie in the program.
Note: If you want to merge all the DVD chapters/titles into one single file, you need to click the "Options" tab in the Clone2Go interface and make the settings as shown below:



4. Choose the most appropriate profile from the "Profile" drop-down list according to the brand of your iPod (iPod touch, iPod nano or iPod classic). Note: You can also customize a specific profile to meet your needs.



5. Click "Start Encode" to start to convert DVD movie to iPod video.

6. Add the output files to iTunes and sync them to your iPod.

Done.

Extracted from http://www.clone2go.com/tutorials/convert-dvd-to-ipod.php

Ripping DVDs to iPod Touch/iPhone format with HandBrake Windows and Mac

No doubt you can purchase movies from the iTunes Store ready for iPhone/iPod Touch consumption, but if you already own the DVD, you don't want to waste your money on the same movie a second time. Instead, you can rip the DVD to a video file on your computer, move it into iTunes Library, and then sync it to your iPhone/iPod Touch. The program I'd like to recommend to do this is called HandBrake, and it's available for free on both Windows and Mac.

The following tutorial will show you how to rip DVD to iPhone/iPod Touch format using HandBrake. You can follow this guide to convert DVD to iPod Touch/iPhone whether you are using Windows OS or Mac OS X (10.5 or later).

Let's take a look at how it works:

Step 1. Download HandBrake from http://handbrake.fr/?article=download according to your computer OS and install it.





Step 2. Insert a DVD and launch HandBrake. If HandBrake doesn't recognize the DVD as a source automatically, you may have to click "Browse" and direct HandBrake to your DVD drive.

Step 3. HandBrake will analyze the DVD and let you choose the title and chapters you want to rip for your iPhone/iPod Touch (in general, you'll want the first title and every chapter). You can get an idea of which title is the main DVD title by choosing the title duration that matches the movie's playtime.

Step 4. Click the "Presets" menu in Windows, or the "Presets" button on the top right of the HandBrake window on the Mac. You'll see several presets; choose the iPhone and iPod Touch preset.

Step 5. Now just click the "Encode Video" button (Windows) or Start button (Mac) and sit back while HandBrake rips the DVD to one big file. This can take a while, so you won't be able to rip a DVD on your way out the door to the airport. Make sure you plan ahead.

Step 6. When HandBrake finishes ripping the DVD, drag the file into iTunes for syncing to your iPod Touch/iPhone whenever you want to.

Note

HandBrake Windows doesn't do a very good job on ripping DVDs to iPod Touch/iPhone format. Here, I'd like to recommend the DVD to iPhone Converter from Clone2Go. This piece of software can merge several DVD chapters into a single file, trim the video length, extract sound tracks from DVD as audio file, support M4V, MP4, MKV, AVI, FLV, WMV, and a lot more output video/audio formats, customize profile for the output file and support sorts of mobile players like iPod Touch, iPhone, Apple TV, PSP, Zune, BlackBerry, etc.