For my previous post, the Box Office Trailers, I converted 10 Movie trailers for 4 different devices. While the video format for these devices is similar, I used a feature of DVD Catalyst 3 that can not be found in any other product on the market; Multi-Device.

Multi-Device enables you to queue up multiple devices (Multi-Device) in DVD Catalyst 3, and when you start the conversion, each item in the conversion queue will be converted for each device. With the trailers, I used 4 different device profiles, each with their own specific settings to produce the best results.

How does this work?

It’s pretty simple. You just start DVD Catalyst 3 as normal, and select your first device with the dropdowns on the right.

Click on Modify and make changes to the settings if you so desire.

At the right are 2 buttons.

Save profile lets you save your current selected settings as a profile, which enables you to select it easily.

Add Deviceis the one we use to add another device to the conversion.

Because with previous versions of DVD Catalyst 3, people often clicked this button without knowing its actual purpose, a warning screen has been added to it to make things a bit easier to understand.

Because we actually want to add a few different devices, click Yes to add one.

DVD Catalyst creates a copy of the currently selected device and its settings, and adds it as a new device, and some new options will become available.

On the right, a dropdown allows you to select the different devices you added. It automatically select the one it just added.

The “Convert per device” checkmark tells DVD Catalyst to convert each item for the first device first, then it starts over to convert each item for the second device and so on.

The “Convert per selection” checkmark tells DVD Catalyst to convert each item to the first device, then the second device, and then it continues with the next item.

For the Trailer conversion, we used Convert per selection. This way the different devices for the same item are grouped together, which gives a nice speed comparison for each device conversion.

10 Trailers, 4 devices, 1 click

With the added device selected, you can change your device choice in the dropdowns on the left, and change the options in “Modify” to reflect your needs.

Once complete, your device dropdown on the right might look like this:

Now, every DVD, Episode, Video File etc, will be converted to each individual device seperately.

To make things easier for you, DD Catalyst automatically creates folders with the device name in the selected output folder location. That way, you dont have to dig through the created video files to find the right ones for each device.