How to Convert DVD to Video for portable devices?

What is DVD?
DVD stands for Digital Versatile/Video Disc, DVDR stands for DVD Recordable and DVDRW for DVD ReWriteable. If you're familiar with regular audio/music CDs or regular DVD-Video discs, then you will know what a recordable DVD looks like. A recordable DVD stores up to 2 hours of very good quality DVD-Video, including several audio tracks in formats like stereo, Dolby Digital or DTS and also advanced menu systems, subtitles and still pictures that can be played by many standalone DVD Players and most computer DVD-ROMs. If you choose to lower the video quality it is possible to store several hours video on a recordable DVD using low bitrates and low resolution with video quality more like VHS, SVHS, SVCD, CVD or VCD. It is also possible to have up to 4.37* GB ordinary data or mix DVD-Video and data on a recordable DVD that can be played by most computer DVD-ROMs.

What is the video for portable devices?
When describing hardware that is portable, it means something that is small and lightweight. Laptop computers are portable because they are easy to carry. Other portable devices include hand-held computers, cell phones, PSP, iPod, MP3 player, iPhone, Zune, Zen, Xbox360, and MP4 player, etc.

These portable devices support videos in different formats. Different devices support different video formats. iPod, iPhone, PSP support MP4 video while Zune support WMV, MP4, etc.

How to convert DVD to portable devices?
DVD video Converter software programs are handy tools to convert DVD to portable devices. Different DVD converters are with different functions but most of them can rip DVD to video of various formats. Leawo DVD Ripper is one of these DVD to Video Converters with functions to improve the video with video trimming, cropping and effect adjustment.

How to use Leawo DVD Ripper?
This DVD to Video Converter is easy to use. If there is no video improvement and customization, just with video import and export will do the job.

Let's see how to convert DVD to video for portable devices with Leawo DVD Ripper:
Insert the DVD disk into the DVD drive, open the program and import the DVD files.

Do the settings:
1. In Subtitle, select the subtitle language.
2. In Audio, select the language of the audio.
3. In Profile, select a video format.
4. In Output, set your destination folder for the output file.

Click “edit” to edit the video in your desire.

a. Choose “Letter Box” from “Zoom” and crop the video in “Cropped size”, or directly drag the dot frame for it. Click “OK” to confirm the settings.

b. Drag the buttons on the slide to trim the video or change the values directly in the Start Time and End Time

c. Effect adjustment:
Drag the slides for Brightness, Contrast, and Volume to improve the video quality.

d. Browse for an image file, set its transparence, position and size to create a logo watermark or Enter a text to click the "T" button to change font properties, set its transparence and position to create a text watermark.

 

Click “convert” to start the conversion.