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Here introduced one of the best and fastest solutions of converting video to iPhone. The tutorial is also suit for users of iPod/Apple TV.
Software used:
Sothink iPhone Video Converter 4.0- Easily and quickly convert video to iPhone MP4
Where to get videos?
Various videos can be found on YouTube, Google, MSN and other popular video sites. Just find a video downloading tool, such as a completely free plug-in --- Sothink Web Video Downloader for Firefox , users may easily get lots of entertainment videos, jokes, music videos, move clips, behind-the-scene stories, etc.
How to convert video to iPhone?
- Step 1. Add Video Files
Launch Sothink iPhone Video Converter 4.0. Click button "Add Files" on the Toolbar, and then a dialog pops up for choosing video files to the program. It supports adding more than one file at one time.
The video files added in will be listed in Details mode or Thumbnails mode.
Here we add one video file, and make converting it to iPhone MP4 as an example.
Next, go to set profile and start conversion. But if you would like to convert only a part of the video file, you may use Trim function first.
- Step 2 Trim Video
Select the video added in, go to "Edit" - > "Trim" function, and then you can decide which part to be converted by dragging the left/right slider to set start/end time.
As the picture showing above, drag the left triangle to a position you want it be the start of the converted video and drag the right triangle to a position you want it be the end of the converted file. Then the video will be trimmed.
- Step 3. Set Target Profile
Go to Settings panel and set target output format. There are various pre-set profiles for all the iPhone, iPod and Apple TV devices' needs.
Here we click the profile combo box and from the pop up list, select "MPEG-4 Video for iPhone (*.mp4)" under "iPhone Video (*.mp4)".
After selecting target profile, the settings of the output video are automatically specified basing on that profile. If you would like to set some properties for even better quality or other special needs, you may customize all by yourself.
For more about customizing video properties, please check online Help – General Settings >>
- Step 4. Convert Video to iPhone
Next, set where to save the converted result.
Set Output Folder
Go to Output panel, click button "Browse" to set the direction of output folder, which is created to save the iPhone video output files.
When the conversion is completed, users may click button "Open" to find the output files in the output folder.
It also could set to directly save the output files into iTunes library if iTunes already installed. Then when your iPhone is connected with the PC, the video output files will be transferred for synchronism.
For more about output setting, please check online Help - Output Folder >>
Convert Video to iPhone MP4
When all the settings are all right, click button "Convert" in the Toolbar to start conversion.
It's OK to pause or stop the conversion progress if needed. When the task is finished, it will play a sound, which can be set in "Options" dialog.
Sothink iPhone Video Converter supports multiple core CPUs and batch conversion. So if there is more than one CPU core, you may choose the maximum number of CPU cores in "Options" dialog and get all the files converted concurrently with high speed.
After a while, the iPhone video is converted and could be played in your iPhone. The whole converting progress is very simple and fast.
Tips: Follow the steps introduced above, you may also through the similar way to get different formats music converted to iPhone , other mobiles, iPod generations and so on.