Archive for the 'How to' Category

How to make your own ring tones for free

Saturday, July 10th, 2010

Make your own cool ring tones from your favorite movies, tv shows or music files.

How to stream movies to your phone for free

Friday, July 9th, 2010

This guide provides details on how to stream your own video collection to your (internet-capable) portable video player. It should work with all devices that can play H264 MP4 video files that feature a webbrowser, such as recent Blackberry devices (Storm/Bold/Tour), Android (Droid, Nexus, EVO etc) Windows Mobile 6.x (HTC HD2) and iPod Touch, iPhone [...]

DVD Catalyst 3 3.90.x recall, 3.86.2 current latest version.

Friday, July 2nd, 2010

We screwed up.
We were so excited about the new features in DVD Catalyst 3.90 that we took too much on our plates. During development, we added the new file-transfer code recently included in DVD Catalyst Free Plus, and besides inclusion of new device profiles, we modified 2-pass conversions so that the first pass would be [...]

DVD Catalyst Free Plus 2.0 for Apple iPad

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

DVD Catalyst Free 2.0 for Apple iPad

Sunday, June 27th, 2010

Convert DVDs and video files for your iPad for free
Download DVD Catalyst Free for iPad here

DVD (and Video) to iPhone 4 for Free (for real!)

Saturday, June 26th, 2010

Free iPhone 4 Converter. If you have already looked for applications that match this search term on websites like Google and Bing, you are probably aware that most of the programs you find are limited trial versions, which only convert partial content or insert a huge watermark over your video files.
Other solutions you might have [...]

New device, device not listed

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.

DVD Catalyst displays multiple items on the DVD, what to choose?

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 [...]

DVD to Droid for free (for real!)

Monday, June 14th, 2010

Don’t you just hate it when you do a search on Google for a free DVD ripper, and all you end up with is darn trial versions, or when the conversion is finally complete, you get a huge advertising watermark in the video? Same here.
Besides these so-called “free dvd rippers”, there are other solutions with [...]

Troubleshooting conversion issues

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 [...]

MKV2MP4 0.1 – A Format-Changer to make MKV files play on XBOX 360 and PS3

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.

DVD Catalyst on the MAC, sort of

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.

DVD Catalyst 3 Product Tour (Part 1)

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 [...]

DVD to Blackberry Video

Monday, March 1st, 2010

How to: DVD to Droid Milestone Video

Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010

DVD Catalyst 3 Multi-Device Conversions

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) [...]

Streaming Box Office Trailers 02-08-10 for Droid, Nexus, iPhone and Blackberry

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 [...]

DVD to HTPC / Media Center / HD Media Player

Sunday, July 19th, 2009

With the continuous growth of sales for computer equipment used for home entertainment purposes, I receive many questions in regards of “backing up” DVDs so they can be used in some form of jukebox enviroment.

Step By Step DVD to Zune with DVD Catalyst (with screenshots)

Sunday, July 19th, 2009

How to put movies on your Zune quick and easy. This guide will show you the steps needed to create videos for your Zune and how to transfer them.

How to update DVD Catalyst 3 to the latest version

Sunday, July 19th, 2009

To update DVD Catalyst 3 to the latest version, all that needs to be done is to click on the (big) cat-eyes on the top left in the program.