Overview, Installation, & User Interface

In this part you will find overview, key features, and system requirements, as well as installation, registration, and user interface and menu instructions of Pavtube HD Video Converter.

What is Pavtube HD Video Converter?
Install, Register, & Uninstall Pavtube HD Video Converter
User Interface

What is Pavtube HD Video Converter?

Pavtube HD Video Converter helps users to convert HD and SD video clips (MTS, M2T, M2TS, TOD, MOD, MOV, MP4, MXF, DV, AVI…) into desired formats to fit for different uses. It deals with HD footages shot with cameras and camcorders manufactured by Sony, Canon, Panasonic, Samsung, JVC, Flip, and more. It can also restore *.tivo files to lossless *.mpg or *.ts files, trim out commercials and trans-code the *.tivo files to *.vob, *.mpg, *.avi etc for burning and sharing.

Pavtube HD Video Converter makes it possible to for you to enjoy various HD videos on Android tablets/smartphones, Apple devices, game consoles, Video-DVD player, HD Media Players, and edit HD contents in Adobe Premiere, Sony Vegas, Cyberlink Power Director, Avid Media Composer, Magix Movie Edit Pro, Windows Movie Maker, Pinnacle Studio, etc.

Key features:
- Convert HD footages shot with cameras and camcorders, such as MTS (M2TS, M2T), TOD, MOD and MOV files to desired formats
- Restore DVR TiVo files to lossless MPEG files or convert TiVo to desired formats
- Convert among other common videos such as flash videos, Quicktime videos, CD files, digital video files, Matroska files, etc.
- Extract audio tracks from source clips for personal use
- Edit the video and movie clips by trimming, cropping, watermarking, flipping, etc.
- Create files for Adobe Premiere, Adobe After Effects, Sony Vegas, Cyberlink Power Director, Avid, Magix Movie Edit Pro, Windows Movie Maker, Nero, etc.
- Produce videos for iOS devices, Android devices, HD Media Players, Game consoles and more
- Multi-task operation, batch conversion, super high converting/transcoding speed
- Flexible editing features (trim, merge, crop, watermark, audio replace, de-interlace, flip, denoise, thumbnail, auto-shutdown, etc)
- Super high conversion speed with NVIDIA CUDA and AMD APP (ATI Stream) acceleration technologies
Note: To use GPU computing feature, a CUDA-compatible NVIDIA graphics card or an AMD graphics card with AMD APP technology must be installed. The CUDA and AMD APP acceleration both work only when creating H.264 encoded video files.

Install, Register, & Uninstall Pavtube HD Video Converter

System Requirements
- Operating System: Windows XP/2003/Vista/Windows 7/Windows 8
- DirectX Version: 9.0 or above
- Memory: 64MB at least
- Processor: 500MHz Intel or 500MHz AMD CPU
- Hard Disc Space: 512MB or above

Install & Uninstall
To install Pavtube HD Video Converter, please
1. Download Pavtube HD Video Converter setup or install file.
2. Double click on the setup file to begin installation.
3. Follow the instructions to install Pavtube HD Video Converter on your PC.

To remove Pavtube HD Video Converter from your computer, please
- Hit Windows Start and go through the following options: All Programs -> Pavtube -> HD Video Converter -> uninstall Pavtube HD Video Converter.
- From Windows Start menu, select to open “Windows Control Panel”. Double click “Add or Remove Program”, scroll to “Pavtube HD Video Converter”, and click Remove.
(More details are provided at How to install and register Pavtube software)

Registration
Please note that you can’t directly register the software from trial version. You need to purchase the retail version, activate Pavtube Member Zone account, and login to get the download link and registration code for retail version. If you didn’t get the activation email, please contact our technical support via videowinsupport@pavtube.com for help.

User interface

Pavtube HD Video Converter is a very easy-to-use converter tool. You can get what you want within just a few clicks on the interface.

The main interface is composed of title bar, menu bar, tool bar, file list, preview window, output settings area, and status bar.

1. Title bar
The title bar displays software name.

2. Menu bar
There are four menus in menu bar, namely “File”, “Edit”, “Tools” and “Help”.

File: Contain operations like "Add Video/Audio", "Add from folder", "Properties" and "Exit".

Edit: Edit selected task.

Tools: On this menu, you can change language and skin, customize format list, or launch Options window.

Language: You can choose from English, Japanese, and Simple Chinese.

Skin: Currently, there’s only one skin.

Customize Format List: You can launch Profile Manager and choose which output format to show in your format list. By default, all output formats will show in format list. This manager can also be launched by clicking Customize button at the bottom of Format list.

As shown in image below, by checking specific categories on the left column, you can choose which categories or output formats to show on format list.

Options: Choosing Options, you can launch Options window. It can also be launched by clicking Options button on tool bar.

In General tab, you can choose what to do if the output file name already exists and set update frequency.

In Snapshot tab, you can set the output folder to save the pictures and the format of the pictures. You can choose from JPG, PNG, TIFF, and BMP. And you can deinterlace the snapshot.

If you want to load your TiVo recordings into this program to do format conversion, you need to enter your Media Access Key in Tivo tab.

Under Acceleration tab, you can choose to enable GPU Decode or Encode Acceleration if your computer supports.

Note that CUDA/AMD is accessible only when there is an NVIDIA/AMD graphics card that supports GPU en-decoding acceleration. The CUDA/AMD button will be grayed out/ denied when the software fails to detect a satisfactory NVIDIA/AMD graphics card. The CUDA and AMD APP acceleration only work when creating H.264 encoded video files. Click to learn more about which graphics cards are supported)

In Convert tab, you can set how many cores to use and how many tasks to process while converting.

In Others tab, you can choose to use Classic or Surpassed Library for encoding and decoding. If you have conversion problems, you can change the Library and test again before contact technical support.

Help Menu: On this menu, you can find the online user manual, go to Pavtube Community, check update, launch register window with purchase link (if you are using a trial version), and find version number and other information about this program.

3. Tool bar
Four icons are displayed in tool bar.

Add video: Browse and load source files
Add from folder: Add source files directly from a folder
Edit selected task: Edit selected file
Options: Open Options panel

4. File list/task list
In the file list/task list you can find task information like file name, duration, trimmed length, and destination file. Under the file list there are control buttons to organize the conversion tasks.

Move Up: Move the selected file one line up.
Move Down: Move the selected file one line down.
Delete: Remove selected file from the file list.
Clear: Remove all the files from the file list.
Properties: View properties of selected task.
Split: Split selected task.
Using the Split function, you can split the selected video file into required video clips by specifying the clip quantity, duration time and file size.

5. Preview Window
Users are allowed to preview the video before conversion. Double-click on a file to preview it. The Preview window includes the following playback controls:

Play: Click to start playing the selected file. The button changes to Pause.
Stop: Click to stop the playback.
Capture: Take a snapshot.
Open: Open the snapshot folder.

6. Output settings area
In output settings area you can set target format, destination folder, adjust audio/video parameters, merge files into one, and open output folder.