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Video resources has become an absolutely necessary part of our daily lives, we can get them from various ways, such as downloading from video sharing websites like YouTube, Hulu, Metacafe, Yahoo!video, etc., purchasing from Blu-ray/DVD resellers, recordings from a digital camera or camcorder, copying from a friend, or some ways else. Have you already got the method of transferring different videos for watching on your iPad, iPod, and iPhone? If not, this guide will show you a step-by-step instruction about how to achieve this goal Pavtube iPad,iPod,iPhone Video Converter(Mac Version: Pavtube Mac Video Converter)

1. Download, install and launch this application.
Once you launched this program, click “Add” button to import video files.

2. Select output format for iPad, iPod, or iPhone
Click on the drop-down list of “Format” to select an output format for your iPad, iPod, or iPhone. There are multiple format profiles optimized for each of the mentioned three devices, you can choose one at will.

3. Set advanced settings
Generally speaking, the default settings can ensure the output files in an acceptable quality, if you want to customize them to get better quality, you can click “Settings” button to adjust video and audio parameters including codec, aspect ratio, bitrate, frame rate, sample rate and audio channel in the following window.

4. Convert
After all the necessary settings are ready, you can click “Convert” buttonto start transferring videos for your iPad, iPod, and iPhone. As soon as the conversion is completed, you can click “Open” button to find out the generated files easily. And then sync them to you iPad, iPod, and iPhone with iTunes.
Learn more: Transfer video for playback on iPad, iPod, and iPhone Blu-ray to iPhone 4 Converter

Has your heart ever been touched by the good and evil of  the humanity unveiled in “Avatar”? Have you ever been moved by the  unremitting efforts made by Will Smith in “The Pursuit of Happyness”?  Have you ever wept for the extremely beautiful but tragic love in “Titanic”? Have you ever been motivated by the movie dialogues like “A strong man can save himself; a great man can save another” in  ”The Shawshank Redemption”?

So there are hundreds of movies in your DVD collection, wanna  rip the classic ones for playback on your new iPad or iPad Wi-Fi+3G in 720p quality? If so, this article will  show you how to convert DVD movies for watching on your iPad with excellent  quality. Go to find the details from the following paragraphs.

The software you will need is Pavtube DVD to  iPad Converter for Mac.

This program is good at removing commercial DVD copy protections,  so you can feel free to load almost all of your DVD movies to it to do format  conversion, even the latest released ones. More than that, with advanced audio  and video in sync technology, it will guarantee the output files well in sync  while playback on your big screens iPad/iPad 3G.

Step 1: Once you run this  program, click “DVD Folder” or “IFO File” to load DVD files

All the DVD movie files are checked by default while loading,  you can right click on the file to “Uncheck all” or “Check all”, so as to  select your needed files to convert in an easy way.

Step 2: Select output  format for your iPad/iPad 3G
Actually, there are three iPad presets specially optimized  for iPad, you can choose anyone of  them to satisfy your needs. Every one of them will definitely ensure you a  perfect playback quality on your iPad/iPad Wi-Fi+3G.

To see the default video and audio parameters, you can click  ”Settings” button, and all of these items including codec name, bitrate, aspect  ratio, frame rate, sample rate, and audio channels will be clearly presented as  below. If you are professional at changing these items, you can adjust them to  meet your higher expectation, otherwise, just let them be. Because they are  good enough to output a nice quality file for your iPad.

If you still want to try your luck, please follow iPad supported file formats to do  your changes.

iPad Supported Video Formats

Do you have tons of MKV files, but yet have  been never able to convert them into a proper video file for your new iPad/iPad  3G on Mac? If so, this article is  deserved reading on, because it aims to tell you how to convert MKV to a  playable format for iPad, so that you can enjoy your MKV movies on that wider  display in high quality.

Required software:
Pavtube MKV to iPad Converter  for Mac

Following is the detailed instruction of how to convert MKV to iPad  and iPad Wi-Fi 3G accepted  format, feel free to check it and get what you are looking for.

Step 1: Click “Add” button to load MKV files into this program

This Mac MKV to iPad converter supports batch  conversion, thus you can add multiple MKV files to it at a time. More than  that, if you want to combine all the files into a single file, you  should tick the checkbox “Merge into one file” to achieve this goal.

Step 2: Select output format for iPad/iPad 3G
Click on the pull  down menu of “Format” firstly, and then you will see there are an “iPad”  option, and three sub-presets optimized for iPad. You can select anyone of the  three profiles to meet your requirement. All of them will guarantee you a  perfect playback quality on your iPad and iPad Wi-Fi+3G.

Step 3: Set advanced settings
Click “Settings”button, then the interface as below will show up,  you are allowed to adjust video and audio parameters shown on it,  including codec name, bit rate, image pixels, frame rate, sample  rate, and audio channels. However, we suggest you to skip this step, because the  default settings will absolutely ensure the excellent playback quality on your  wide screen iPad.

Step 4: Start converting  MKV files to iPad and iPad Wi-Fi+3G  supported format
As soon as all the above three steps are  finished, you can click “Convert” button to start converting MKV  files to iPad compatible format. Once finished,  you can click “Open” button to get the output files. Now just add these  converted MKV files to your iTunes, and sync them to your iPad for watching.

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As our multimedia life getting more and more colorful, people nowadays can get videos in different formats from countless ways, such as MTS, TOD, MOD files captured by a handheld camera or camcorder, VOB files from a standard DVD disc, M2TS files from a Blu-ray disc, EVO files from a HD DVD, FLV files downloaded from YouTube, Hulu.com, and videos from some other ways, like MKV, TS, TP, etc. Up to now, there are no media players or portable devices able to play whatever videos you throw at it, so numerous video converters are developed to achieve format conversion from one to another. Pavtube iPad Video Converter(for Mac:Mac Video Converter) is such an application among them. It features fast conversion speed and excellent conversion quality, which will never let you encounter audio and video out of sync issues. As Apple’s iPad is recently on sale, this guide will focus on how to watch different video files on iPad via this video converter, and aims to give a solution to those people who are just starting using iPad. Go to find a detailed guide from the following contents.

Step 1: Click “Add” button to import video files
This application supports batch conversion, so you can add multiple files to it at a time.

Step 2: Select an output format for iPad
Click on the dropdown list of “Format”, and then select “iPad”. There are three profiles designed for iPad, you can select one according to your own requirements. Here I choose “iPad Video MPEG-4 (*.mp4)” for instance.

Step 3: Customize quality settings
iPad supports MPEG-4 video with settings as below:
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. So we can follow the recommended settings to get perfect video and audio quality.

Video:
Codec: h264
Size: 640*480
Bitrate: 2500kbps
Frame rate: 30fps

Audio:
Codec: aac
Sample rate: 48khz
Bitrate: 160kbps
Channels: Stereo

Step 4: Click “Convert” button to start conversion
You can get the output files for your iPad via clicking on “Open” button. Afterwards, just sync the videos to your iPad with iTunes. Have fun.

Learn more: Convert/rip Blu-ray/DVD and HD Videos to your iPod,iPad,iPhone?

Best iPad Video settings

Follow the optimal settings to get excellent playback quality.
Video:
Codec: H.264
Size: 640*480 or 1280*720
Bitrate: 2500kbps
Frame rate: 30fps
Audio:
Codec: aac
Sample rate: 48khz
Bitrate: 160kbps
Channels: Stereo

Pavtube MTS/M2TS Converteris designed for those who have an AVCHD camcorder but unfortunately get stuck in MTS and M2TS video format. It does a good job in converting MTS, M2TS, M2T, TS, TP and TRP to versatile video and autio formats. People who have no way to edit MTS/ M2TS files with Adobe Premiere, Avid, Sony Vegas Cyberlink Power Director, Avid, Magix Movie Edit Pro, Windows Movie Maker, etc can find a best solution by converting them to useable formats such as WMV(VC-1), MOV (AVC) and MPEG2. The output formats covers common audio, SD video, HD video, Flash video, DVD as well as customized formats for Xbox, Apple TV, PS3, WDTV HD Player, iPod, iPhone, iPad, PSP,Zune, Creative Zen, Archos, Nokia etc. All these output formats enable you to playback, edit and upload the footages shot by Sony, Canon, JVC and Panasonic AVCHD Camcorders.

What’s new
- Fixed for the out of sync issue when merging multiple trimmed files together.

- Improved the GUI to be more user-friendly. A checkbox is added for users to check/ uncheck all chapters; the main movie of source disc is marked out; and slider bars are added so as to adjust the position of crop area and text/image/video watermark more conveniently.

- Upgraded the Profile Manger, and improved the profile list to be more friendly, intuitive, and flexible. The software will memorize the profile settings and apply it when it is updated to the later version.

- Added support to iPad, including three more optimized formats.

- Added scale value to Brightness, Contrast and Saturation facility contained in Effect tab.

For Mac user: Mac MTS/M2TS to iPad Converter

Learn more: Best iPad video conversion tools

Best iPad Video settings

Follow the optimal settings to get excellent playback quality.
Video:
Codec: H.264
Size: 640*480 or 1280*720
Bitrate: 2500kbps
Frame rate: 30fps
Audio:
Codec: aac
Sample rate: 48khz
Bitrate: 160kbps
Channels: Stereo

Pavtube MOD to iPad Converter is an ideal tool for people who are using digital camcorders, such as JVC Everio, the Canon FS100 and the Panasonic D-Snap SD-card camcorders. It can edit and convert the recording video MOD from your digital camcorder to other popular video and audio formats like MP4, 3GP, AVI, MPG, MPEG-4, FLV, MOV, 3G2, VOB, MP3, FLAC, MKA, OGG, WAV, AC3, M4A etc. for playback on portable devices like iPod, iPhone, iPad, PSP, Zune, Creative Zen, cell phones and edit in Adobe Premiere, Sony Vegas, Power Director etc.

What’s new
- Fixed for the out of sync issue when merging multiple trimmed files together.

- Improved the GUI to be more user-friendly. A checkbox is added for users to check/ uncheck all chapters; the main movie of source disc is marked out; and slider bars are added so as to adjust the position of crop area and text/image/video watermark more conveniently.

- Upgraded the Profile Manger, and improved the profile list to be more friendly, intuitive, and flexible. The software will memorize the profile settings and apply it when it is updated to the later version.

- Added support to iPad, including three more optimized formats.

- Added scale value to Brightness, Contrast and Saturation facility contained in Effect tab.

For Mac user: Mac MOD to iPad Converter

Learn more: Best iPad video conversion tools