Note: We have both Mac and Windows version for Video Converter Ultimate. All steps listed on this page are based on the Mac version; if you're a Windows user, you can go to the User Guide for Windows to learn more details.
1. Quick-Start Guide
Open EaseFab Video Converter Ultimate, then you can operate video/DVD/Blu-ray conversion in 3 steps: Add Source Media Files > Select Output Format > Start the Conversion.
1.1 — Import Media Files (Video, DVD or Blu-ray)
① Load Source Blu-ray or DVD Files: Insert your Blu-ray disc to BD drive or DVD to DVD drive, then click the button to have movies uploaded to the program. Here you can also import BD/DVD folders, ISO files and IFO files
② Add Video Files: Click the button to load video or audio files from your computer or other devices like USB device, camcorder, MP4 player, etc.
Note that batch conversion is supported so you can add as many files as you like at one time.
Tips: If the source files are DVD, Blu-ray or MKV files with subtitles, you can choose desired subtitle or audio track from the corresponding drop-down Audio or Subtitle lists. You're also allowed Add *.srt/*.ass/*.ssa Subtitle to the movie if there is unwanted subtitle track there.
1.2 — Select Output Profile
This all-in-one media toolkit allows converting video/DVD/Blu-ray to almost all popular video and audio formats. And it also offers a library of optimized presets for mobile devices, TV, game consoles, NAS, VR headsets, non-linear editing systems, etc.
Click Profile (located below where your files are displayed), you can choose a format or device from the list of preset profiles.
※ Optional — After choosing the right profile, you can then click Settings button to adjust video and audio parameters. You can also click Edit button to make your own creation in minutes.
① "Common Video" & "HD/4K Video"
You can choose commonly-used output format from the format list or customize which formats to be shown on the list. As you see, all regular video like MP4, MOV, MKV, WMV, AVI, FLV, with H.264/MPEG-4/HEVC codecs are provided. Moreover, there are available 4K outputs and HD outputs, etc.
② "3D Video"
EaseFab DVD Ripper can help you create your own 3D videos from DVD movies. Click the Format bar, you can choose output format from the 3D Video format list or customize which formats to be shown on the list.
③ "Online Video"
Convert DVD to MP4, MPEG4 or FLV for YouTube, Facebook and other social networks.
④ "Multi-track Video"
There are four multi-track output formats available for you to choose from – MKV Lossless Multi-track, MP4 Multi-track, MOV Multi-track and DV-PAL Multi-track (*.avi). These profiles are specially designed for those who want to convert Blu-ray to MKV, MP4, MOV and AVI with multiple audio tracks and subtitle streams.
Besides multi-track outputs, the SRT subtitlefile profile allows you to extract external SRT files from DVD or Blu-ray discs.
⑤ "Common Audio"
If you want to extract the audio files from a Blu-ray or a DVD, you can directly choose an audio format here.
⑥ "Editing Software"
If you want to encode Blu-ray/DVD video for smooth editing, you can directly choose a professional "intermediate" or "production" codec like Apple ProRes, DNxHD, Apple Intermediate Codec, and more. here.
⑦ "VR", "TVs/Players", "Apple"...
If you want to convert Blu-rays/DVDs for playback on iPhone, iPad, Android, smart TVs, game console, etc. you can simply browse to find device and select it as the output format to get videos with optimized settings from corresponding category.
※ This program enables you upscale 2K/1080P footage to 4K and downscale 4k UHD to lower resolution at fast speed.
1.3 — Start the Conversion
After everything is OK, hit the Convert button at the lower-right corner to start the conversion.
You can Pause or Cancel the conversion. Also, you can choose shut down computer and open output folder when conversion completed.
※ Just below Profile is Output, you can click the icon to change output folder where you want to save converted video.
— Blu-ray/DVD Backup
EaseFab Video Converter Ultimate for Mac can also being used as a Blu-ray/DVD backup software. You can copy directly from one Blu-ray/DVD to another, and create 1:1 digital copy as ISO image or folder for storing on hard drive, NAS, cloud storage, or somewhere else. There are 3 copy modes:
By choosing this mode, you can makes 1:1 copy of original Blu-ray or DVD disc without quality loss with all audio streams, subtitle tracks, extras, etc.
By choosing this mode, you can copy Blu-ray to a single M2TS file or backup DVD to a single VOB file. If you select the longest title, then you can copy Blu-ray and DVD main movie content and leave out extras, commentary, etc.
By choosing this mode, you can create ISO from DVD disc. This ISO image file contains everything written on DVD.
2. Edit
EaseFab Video Converter Ultimate is preloaded with a video editor to output your desired video style. Learn how to adjust volumn, add subtitle, crop and trim videos or movies as follows.
First of all, select the video or movie, then click button to enter the Video Editor window.
2.1 — Trim
Trimming videos is one of the useful features to edit videos, which can remove the unwanted parts as a video shortener by trimming the unwanted part and combining the left clips together, trim a long videos into several small segments for convenient sharing or watching.
To trim a video, please switch to Trim tab in Video Editor Interface and follow any of the methods below:
1. Drag the control sliders to include the segment you want to remain.
2. Click the left square bracket to set start point, and click the right square bracket to set end point when previewing the video.
3. Input specific values to Start and End box.
2.2 — Crop
The Crop facility enables users to get rid of the black edges and unwanted area of the image.
Switch to Crop tab and follow any of the methods below:
Here you can drag and move the rectangle on the video to set the crop area or enter the accurate crop values on Left and Top. Meanwhile, you can Zoom in or out, change the aspect ratio. In this way, you can remove the black bars of your videos.
2.3 — Apply Effect
This app offers brightness, saturation, contrast adjustment as well as 4 filters for you to apply stunning video effect. Now follow the simple steps to make your video more stylish.
Switch to Effect tab to apply effect to your videos. You can easily adjust the brightness, contrast, saturation settings and select deinterlace as you need. There're also 4 widely-used filters for your selection, choose a favourite one and click OK to confirm.
Check Apply to All and then you can apply changes to all videos you added.
2.4 — Add Watermark
If you want to stamp your videos with your name or other indentifying marks, you can add a watermark via the simple tutorial below.
Switch to Watermark. Under Watermark tab, you can create a text watermark to personalize your video. Type whatever text you want in the blank input field next to it. You can also adjust the font, transparency, vertical and horizontal position of your watermark.
Check Apply to All and then you can apply changes to all videos you added.
2.5 — Volume & Rotate
Have you ever captured video with a cell phone or compact camera only to find it's vertically oriented and you can't view it properly? Don't worry, EaseFab Video Converter can help you easily rotate your video for wathing without problem. Moreover, you can easily increase volume in one step.
There're clockwise, anticlockwise, flip horizontal and flip vertical 4 options for you to rotate the video.
Drag the bar to increase or decrease volume
2.6 — Add Subtitles
Besides converting and editing, EaseFab Video Converter Ultimate also offers adding subtitles to DVD, Blu-ray, MP4, AVI, MKV and other mainstream video formats. You can select the embedded subtitle track or add subtitle to your video in the following steps. In the following steps, we will take how to add subtitles to Blu-ray video for example.
Add the videos
Before you start, you need to import the Blu-ray to EaseFab Video Converter Ultimate.
Add subtitle
To add the subtitles you like, simply click "Subtitle" and click "Add Subtitle" tab to browse and import your *.srt, *.ass, *.ssa subtitle file you want to embed.
After that, you can have a preview of the subtitle effect to make sure all goes OK .
Start adding subtitles to Blu-ray Video.
Before conversion, click the Profile bar and select an output format. Or, you can also directly choose a device to save MP4 video with subtitles to play on the device (e.g. iPhone, iPad, Galaxy Tab, PS Vita, etc). And then click the Convert button and now you have finished all steps of attaching subtitle to MP4 videos.
3. Settings
Here you can learn general preferences of EaseFab Video Converter Ultimate and advanced settings of output video.
3.1 — Clear
Click Clear button to remove all sources you added in the program.
3.2 — Options
Click button or from Tools > Options to enter Options Window. Here you can set Snapshot Folder, Duplicate files filter and change Auto update automatically.
3.3 — Output Settings
Click Settings button enter Settings Window. Here you can customize video audio codec, bitrate, frame rate, aspect ratio, resolution, audio codec, audio channel number, sample rate, bit rate, etc.
※ Please note: Adjusting these variables have some effect on the re-encoded video quality. Remember the file size and video quality is based more on bitrate than resolution which means video/audio bitrate higher results in big file size, and lower visible quality loss.
"Multi-track MKV Settings"
① Lossless/encoded Multi-track MKV
EaseFab Video Converter Ultimate transfers video from Blu-ray/DVD to MKV container in two ways, lossless output and encoded output. Both the two ways enable users to preserve wanted audio tracks and subtitles streams in the source movie.
Actually, all audio & subtitles tracks in a source file are checked to be saved in the MKV container by default, if there are some tracks you don’t like, you can click Settings button and go to Multi-task Settings window to uncheck and remove them under Audio tab and Subtitle tab.
② Multi-track MP4/MOV and Multi-track Interlaced DV PAL Video (*.avi)
Unlike multi-track MKV, the three formats only support encoded output. Users can choose their desired audio tracks to be kept in the output file, but subtitles streams are banned to choose from.
3.4 — Preview Window
After importing, all video files will be listed in the program. You can preview the imported movie file by double clicking or checking one of them and click the button under preview window.
By clicking the button under the preview window, you can take snapshot from the playing window as Thumbnail or for other use. By clicking the button, you can find the snapshots you took.
3.5 — Merge Into One
Probably you want to combine several titles or chapters into a single one so that you can enjoy these videos without any interruption. More so, you can also cut the unnecessary scenes from these video files before saving them. Don't worry, with EaseFab Video Converter Ultimate for Mac which proves to be a good video combiner and cutter, you can join videos together with ease.
To join them together, simply tick off Merge all videos into one file.
3.6 — Media Information
EaseFab Video Converter Ultimate provides you with a quick access to the inner values of your Blu-ray or DVD movie. It's quite easy to know the technical information of your Blu-ray or DVD.
Move mouse cursor to the main menu File (The menus are listed at top of your Mac screen), and select Media Information. You can easily find the resolution, frame rate, codec, bitrate, etc. in your Blu-ray or DVD disc..