At present iPod is commonly used by people. It is a tool of entertainment for people. However, many videos cannot be put on iPod because of its own limited conditions. Recently, some intelligent people have studied one conversion tool specially aimed at this problem. All kinds of video formats can be converted to the formats supported by iPod. I prefer to share them named Tipard iPod Video Converter (http://www.tipard.com/ipod-video-converter.html) and Tipard iPod Video Converter for Mac (http://www.tipard.com/ipod-video-converter-for-mac.html) here. OK, Let me introduce them one by one. Tipard iPod Video Converter (http://www.tipard.com/ipod-video-converter.html) can convert all the video formats such as MPG, MPEG2, VOB, AVI, WMV and Youtube etc. to MP4/H.264 formats for various models of iPod. It can convert videos with high output quality of sound and image under fast conversion. Step 1: Download and install Tipard iPod Video Converter (http://www.tipard.com/download/ipod-video-converter.exe). The interace of the installed software is seen as following: [Image: http://www.tipard.com/image/tutorial/ipod-and-iphone-video-converter/ipod.jpg ] Step 2: Click ?Add File? or ?File? Menu to load your video or audio file. Step 3: Select output format you want to convert it from ?Profile?. If you prefer your own setting, you could click the ?Settings? button on the right of ?Profile? button. The setting interface is below: [Image: http://www.tipard.com/image/tutorial/mp4-video-converter/setting.jpg ] Step 4: click the ?Start? button. If you want to your own conversion path, you could click ?Browse? button to select your own path. OK. Only within a few minutes the conversion is completed. Tips: Tipard iPod Video Converter has the other functions besides converting the format. It can trim, crop, extract audio from video files and merge the separated video into one file. 1. Trim You can capture your favorite clips from your movie. Let?s begin. Click ?Trim? to open the Trim window. Then enter the start time in the ?Start Time? box and click OK; enter the end time in the ?Set End Time? box and click OK. [Image: http://www.tipard.com/image/tutorial/mp4-video-converter/trim.jpg ] 2. Crop Also, you can remove the black edges around your movie video and customize the size of video play region as you wish. Click ?Crop? to open the Trim window. Select a crop mode in the Crop Mode drop-down list and click OK to save the crop. [Image: http://www.tipard.com/image/tutorial/mp4-video-converter/crop.jpg ] The second one is Tipard iPod Video Converter for Mac (http://www.tipard.com/ipod-video-converter-for-mac.html). The specific steps are as follows: Step 1: Download and install Tipard iPod Video Converter for Mac(Intel Version (http://www.tipard.com/download/mac/ipod-video-converter-intel.dmg); Power PC Version (http://www.tipard.com/download/mac/ipod-video-converter-power-pc.dmg) [Image: http://www.tipard.com/image/tutorial/ipod-mac.jpg ] Step 2:[b] Click ?Add File? or ?File? Menu to load your video or audio file. [b]Step 3: Select output format you want to convert it from ?Profile?. If you prefer your own setting, you could click the ?Settings? button on the right of ?Profile? button. Step 4: click the ?Start? button. If you want to your own conversion path, you could click ?Browse? button to select your own path. OK. Only within a few minutes the conversion is completed. Some other functions are here: 1. Trim: With this function you can capture your favorite clips from your video. Click the ?Trim? button and a Trim Window appears as follows: [Image: http://www.tipard.com/image/tutorial/flv-converter/trim-mac.jpg ] Enter the start time in the ?Start Time? box and click ?OK?, then enter the end time in the ?End Time? box and click ?OK? and finally click ?OK? on the lower. 2. Crop: You can easily remove the black edges around your video and customize the size of video play region. Click the ?Crop? button and a Crop Window comes out before you as follows: [Image: http://www.tipard.com/image/tutorial/flv-converter/crop-mac.jpg ] Select a crop mode in the Crop Mode drop-down list and click ?OK? to save the crop. There are six pre-set crop modes for your choice. 3. Merge several chapters of video into one files You could enjoy a single long movie by clicking ?Merge into one file? button to merge several short videos. If you have any doubt about them, please go to the website (http://www.tipard.com). Good news: Now you can get many DVD and video conversion tools released by Tipard Studio at a satisfactory price. Most products are at discount now and you can you visit the Tipard Colorful Spring Garden (http://www.tipard.com/xmas.html) to get a wonderful experience. Mod Converter (http://www.tipard.com/mod-converter.html)