Archive for the 'Tips / Tricks' Category
Tuesday, July 13th, 2010
A few days ago, someone asked me some questions in regards of streaming video through the online “DropBox” service. The question asked was why files created with DVD Catalyst Free 2.0 would stream if they were uploaded to the DropBox service, but files created with DVD Catalyst 3 did not.
As it turns out, the “AlbumArt” [...]
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Saturday, July 10th, 2010
Make your own cool ring tones from your favorite movies, tv shows or music files.
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Sunday, June 27th, 2010
Affordable DVD and video conversion tool for Apple iPad
You can purchase ($5.95) DVD Catalyst Free Plus for iPad here
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Saturday, June 26th, 2010
All our DVD Catalyst products use a technology we call “transparent batch”. Its the one reason why we made DVD Catalyst in the first place.
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Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010
DVD Catalyst 3 version 3.90 now available on www.tools4movies.com
Existing customers, just click on the big cat-eyes in DVD Catalyst 3 to update to the latest version.
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Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010
DVD Catalyst 3 includes support for more devices than all similar products combined. 100’s of different devices have their own conversion profiles, and are easily selectable using the dropdowns. However, every day new phones and media players are released and it is impossible to include profiles for each one of them.
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Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010
Depending on the content on the DVD, DVD Catalyst can display additional video content after scanning, besides the movie.
DVD Catalyst uses a “minimum playtime” filter to ignore things like trailers and advertisements on a DVD, but to make it as easy as possible to convert both movies and TV show DVDs, every track on the [...]
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Monday, June 21st, 2010
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Sunday, June 20th, 2010
Video comes in different formats and sizes.
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Saturday, June 19th, 2010
Of course DVD Catalyst 3 can create video files that will play on the iPhone 4 in great quality!
DVD Catalyst 3.90 is now available, and includes profiles for the new iPhone 4 !!
The Apple iPhone 4 is close to being released, and questions for ripping your movies for the iPhone 4 are coming in as [...]
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Friday, June 11th, 2010
If you are experiencing complications during the conversion, there are a couple of things you can try.
(This applies to DVD Catalyst as well as most other DVD and video file conversion tools)
* 99 Tracks / Scrambled Scenes. Some newer DVDs feature a non-DVD compliant protection system. This protection system (called ARCOSS) can affect playback on [...]
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Thursday, May 13th, 2010
Somewhere in the back of my head, a wealth of information is hidden away. Usually it just sits there, collecting dust, but once in a while, something triggers a wake-up call, and it comes to use.
Today was such a day. On DroidForums.net, someone asked about downloading free movies, and while the question probably applied to [...]
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Monday, May 10th, 2010
If you have a collection of MKV files, and are looking for a quick and easy way to make these files play on your XBOX 360 or PS3, MKV2MP4 might be the tool for you.
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Friday, April 30th, 2010
Over the last couple of weeks, some people have reported issues in regards of audio synchronization (lips dont match the spoken words) with some HTC phones running WIndows Mobile, such as the HD2.
The problem lies in the phone. Playing the video files on anything else (tip: use Quicktime on a PC to verify your files) [...]
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Sunday, April 25th, 2010
One of the most powerful (and less known) features of DVD Catalyst 3 is the capability to queue up multiple devices. While extremely handy if you own a collection of different types of video players, we often receive questions in regards of creating one video file that would play on multiple devices.
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Wednesday, April 14th, 2010
DVD Catalyst is currently only available for Windows-based computers. While some people have reported that it works on Linux by use of the Wine windows-compatibility layer, not all the features and options work.
To use DVD Catalyst on an Apple computer or laptop, there are a few options to make things work.
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Sunday, March 28th, 2010
A couple of trailers converted using the Blackberry Curve profile in DVD Catalyst 3.
Download the file you want to watch, extract the video from the zip, then transfer the file directly to your Blackberry in USB mode for best results. Do not use Windows Media Player or the Blackberry Video transfer tool to transfer. The [...]
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Sunday, March 21st, 2010
DVD Catalyst was created to fulfill a need for features in conversion tools we could not find in any other product. Because of this, DVD Catalyst 3 is a bit different in how things work. With this tour we will try and explain how easy it is to get started, as well as a detailed [...]
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Monday, February 8th, 2010
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) [...]
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Monday, February 8th, 2010
# 1. Avatar
AVATAR takes us to a spectacular new world beyond our imagination, where a reluctant hero embarks on a journey of redemption and discovery, as he leads a heroic battle to save a civilization.
Source: http://www.apple.com/trailers/fox/avatar/hd/
http://www.tools4movies.com/boxoffice/bold/avatar.mp4
http://www.tools4movies.com/boxoffice/droid/avatar.mp4
http://www.tools4movies.com/boxoffice/iphone/avatar.mp4
http://www.tools4movies.com/boxoffice/nexus/avatar.mp4
# 2. Edge of Darkness
“Edge of Darkness” is an emotionally charged thriller set at the intersection of politics and big [...]
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