iPod - Convert MKV to other video formats like MP4, FLV, AVI, WMV, style197 - Sat Jan 09, 2010 9:28 pm Post subject: Convert MKV to other video formats like MP4, FLV, AVI, WMV,
Convert MKV to other video formats like MP4, FLV, AVI, WMV, 3GP, etc.
About MKV files:
Wikipedia gives an explanation of it as: "The Matroska Multimedia Container is an open standard free container format, a file format that can hold an unlimited number of video, audio, picture or subtitle tracks inside a single file. It is intended to serve as a universal format for storing common multimedia content, like movies or TV shows. Matroska is similar in conception to other containers like AVI, MP4 or ASF, but is entirely open in specification, with implementations consisting mostly of open source software. Matroska file types are .MKV for video (with subtitles and audio), .MKA for audio-only files and .MKS for subtitles only. The most common use of .MKV files is to store HD video files."
Although MKV files have been one of the most popular video formats, most portable devices, video players, video editors, etc. do not give native supports to them. Therefore, it’s necessary for us to convert this format to many other media formats, so as to play or edit them without trouble.
How to convert MKV to other video formats like MP4, FLV, AVI, WMV, 3GP, etc.?
Step 2: Click the drop-down list of "Format" to select an output format, which format to select depending on your end use of the generated files. Meanwhile, click the folder icon at the end of "Output" to specify a destination folder.
Step 3: Click "Settings" button to adjust video and audio parameters like aspect ratio, bit rate, frame rate, sample rate, etc.
Step 4: Click "Convert" button to start conversion.
Tips:
1. If you want to combine multiple MKV files to be as one file, please tick the checkbox "Merge into one file".
2. Click the camera icon, and then you can take screenshot of the playing MKV file, after that, click the folder icon on the right side of this icon to get the screenshots.
3. Click "Edit" button, then you will be led to the editor interface as below:
The "Crop" function allows you cutting off black edges and the unwanted areas of the original MKV files.
The "Trim" function enables you to set the exact duration of the video clip. You can set the "Start" time and "End" time, or you can directly drag the slide bar to the time points as you like.
Through using "Text Watermark" and "Image/Video Watermark" function, you are able to add your preferred texts, pictures, even GIF animations and videos to be as your watermark, in that way, the "Picture-in-picture" effect will be realized beautifully.
The "Effect" function permits you adjusting the effects of your MKV files, including "Brightness", "Contrast", "Saturation", and adding special effects like "simple gauss blur", "Simple laplasian sharpen", flip color", etc. to your videos.
