Firecoresoft Video Converter User Guide

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Firecoresoft Video Converter (Video Converter for Mac) is considered as one of the best programs available. As a reliable video download tool, it supports downloading various videos from 100+ websites such as YouTube, Face book, Metacafe, etc. Meanwhile, it can serve as a professional video conversion program, helping users to convert the downloaded or existing videos to virtually any other formats, applications or media devices at ease. Plus, its built-in editing features provide a great way for users to edit the source files such as cropping, trimming, applying effects, adding watermarks and so on.

What Can Firecoresoft Video Converter Do for You？

1. Download a large number of videos from 100+ video-sharing websites,

ie, YouTube, Vimeo, Metacafe, Break, etc.

2. Transcode the downloaded/existing videos (AVI, FLV, WMV, M4V, MOV, tc) & audio (MP3, AAC, WMA, etc) to almost any other popular formats.

3. Transfer videos/audio to most popular applications (QuickTime, Windows Media Player, etc) or portable media devices such as iPhone5S/5C/5/4S, iPad Air, iPad Mini, LG G2, Xperia Z1 for smoothly playback.

4. Import videos to non-linear editing software like iMovie, Final Cut Pro for extension editing.

5. Help to spiff up source video files by using the built-in editor

System Requirements:

512 MB physical RAM (memory) or above

Miscrosoft® Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows XP, Windows Vista/MAC OS X 10.6 or above operating system (Mac OS X Snow Leopard, Lion, Mountain Lion, Mavericks)

Guides on How to Use Firecoresoft Video Converter:

In order to show all users how to use Firecoresoft Video Converter clearly, we will break the guidelines into two parts as below:

NOTES: the guidelines provided are made on Windows. Mac users can also refer to the guidelines since the steps are approximately the same.

Part 1. How to Download Videos

Part 2. How to Convert Videos

a. Add Source File

b. Edit Source File Optionally

c. Set Proper Output Format

d. Start to Convert

Part 1. How to Download Videos

Before moving any further, it is necessary to get the program ready. Here comes the instruction: click the "Free Trial"button, save the program package into the desired location, i.e, a file folder on the desktop. Once it has been downloaded, open the folder, and double click the "VideoConverter.exe" icon to install the program as per the instruction. Basically, it takes no more than 2 minutes for the installation. When it’s done, launch the program to enter its interface.

Now, let’s see how to download videos by taking the following 3 simple steps:

Step 1. To download videos, the very first thing is to find the video you would like to download. Open the web browser like Firefox, log into the video-sharing website, say YouTube, then select your favorite video. In the address bar, highlight the URL of the video and copy it.

Step 2. Reverting to the interface of Firecoresoft Video Converter, click the “Download” button on the tool bar, you will enter the “video download” section. Kindly refer to the picture below:

Step 3. Press the “Paste URL” icon, the URL of the selected video will be added in the interface; meanwhile, the program will start to download the video automatically. Please note that you are allowed to add multiple URLs in the same way, so that you can download batch videos at the same time. Once all videos have been downloaded, you will be notified by a small window. Open the folder and you will get the videos with 100% original quality preserved.

NOTES: press the “ Setting” button at the upper right corner of the interface, you can customize the downloaded video resolution (Best Quality/Medium Quality/Low Quality) freely. Plus, you can also designate a position to save the video files by hitting the "Output" icon.

Part 2. How to Convert Videos

As mentioned above, this program supports converting downloaded and existing video files. The process of video conversion is straightforward which goes like as follows:

a. Add Source File

If you want to convert the downloaded videos, simply click on the “Import All” icon to load the files into the program. In contrary, if you need to transcode the existing video files from your computer, please hit the “Add Files” button on the tool bar, navigate to the location of the source file and load it into the program. Alternatively, you can drag and drop the file into the converter directly. Please note that multiple files are allowed for batch conversion at one go.

b. Edit Source File Optionally

A built-in editor is equipped to the video converter. Users can make the full use of editing features to perfect the source files optionally. Let’s take a look at all of the features one by one:

Trim:

Click on the “Trim” button on the tool bar, you will enter a new window. There, you can cut the source video file into several segments as per your needs. After getting the desired segments, click the “Merge Trimmed Files”, you can merge the files into a single one.

Split:

Press the “Split” button, a small new window will show up. In the window, you will see two options – “Split by duration” and “Split average”. Simply choose the one according to your preference. Please be note that, the durations should not be more than the original length of the source video.

Edit

Press the “Edit” button on the tool bar, you will enter the advanced editing section. In this section, you can do a lot to perfect the source file.

Rotate/Flip Video: you can rotate the source file horizontally or vertically; flip the file clockwise or anticlockwise according to your need. You can view the result in the preview window above.

Crop Video： Click the “Crop” icon, you can customize the file dimension in two ways: the first is to drag the square to define the exact area you need while the other one is to fill in the blank of “Left”, “Top”, “Right” and “Bottom”. Besides, you can hit the “Zoom” button to set the output video ratio like Original, Full, 16:9, 4:3 freely.

Add Effect：Click the “Effect” icon, you are able to customize the source video parameters including “Brightness”, “Saturation” and “Contrast”. Meanwhile, you can also apply effects ("Gray", "Emboss" and "Old film") to the file to make it special.

Add 3D Effect: Would you like to make stunning 3D video from the common video files? That’s easy. Simply click on the “3D Effect” icon, you can choose “Red/Green”, “Red/Blue”, or “Blue/Yellow” as per your requirement. Plus, the 3D depth is customizable by dragging the slide bar freely.

Add Watermark: Press the “Watermark” icon, you will see three options – “None”, “Image Type” and “Text Type”. Click the icon next to “Image Type”, you can insert your favorite picture from the disk into the source to set it as the watermark. You can adjust the watermark depth freely. While click the icon close to the “Text Type”, you are allowed to add text (words, phrase, or even sentence) as the watermark. Remarkably, the text font, font style, effect can be customized as you like. Also, you can personalize the location of the watermark if needed.

Customize Audio: Click on the “Audio” icon, you are able to customize the audio of the source video file. For instance, you can turn it up or down by dragging the “Volume” slider bar, you can also apply the “Fade in” or “Fade out” effects optionally. You can define the duration of the effect by giving the specific time.

c. Set Proper Output Format

Piles of popular video and audio formats are provided by the program. Click the “Profile” button, you can open the format list. In the meanwhile, you will find lots of optimal presets for most applications like QuickTime, Final Cut Pro, etc, media devices such as iPhone, iPad, Samsung, Windows Phone and so on. Make sure that you choose the format that meets with your requirement.

After setting the output format, you can click the “Settings”icon to customize the converted file including the resolution, bitrate, frame rate, etc.

Furthermore, if you don’t want to save the converted file in the default position, you can click the “Save to” icon to designate a favorable location for saving the files.

d. Start to Convert

After finishing the steps above, you can click the play icon to preview the final result to check whether it is acceptable or not. Once you are satisfied with the effect, click the big blue “Start” button to kick off the conversion. You can view the conversion process on the progress bar which shows you the completion percentage clearly. A small window will notify you of the completion, click “Yes”, you will find the converted file in the location you specified previously.

See more info please visit

http://www.firecoresoft.com/video-converter.html

Mac version:

http://www.firecoresoft.com/video-converter-mac.html

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