This article is going to explain how to convert video to MPEG and extract audio to MP3. The output files could be played on players such as Zune, Xbox 360, Pocket PC, Windows Movie Maker, HP iPAQ, Creative Zen Vision and so on.

It includes two parts:

1. How to convert video to MPEG?
2. How to crop, edit, join and trim video to MPEG?

Part 1: How to convert video to MPEG?
Step1. Please download Aimersoft MPEG Converter;

Install and run Aimersoft MPEG Converter, click the “Add” button to import your video files. Aimersoft MOV Converter supports batch conversion, so you can import multiple files at a time. If you meet any problems adding videos by directly clicking the “Add” button, you can click “File -> Add DirectShow files…” to add the video files you want to convert from your computer.

Step2. You can convert video to

If you want to customize the output quality, click the “Settings” button to open the Settings panel, where you can set resolution, frame rate, video bit rate, audio bit rate, sample, etc. You also can create a Settings profile and save it, and then you won’t have to set the same settings every time. Since Aimersoft Video Converter supports batch conversion, you can use different profiles for the added video files to save your time. If you don’t want to do these settings, the default settings will just work perfectly.



After all you finish the above steps, click “Start” to begin the conversion.

Part2. How to trim, crop, join and edit video
Aimersoft MPEG Converter provides you a series powerful function of movie trimming, cropping, combining, etc.

If you want to cut the black edges or undesired part off, you can click the “crop” button to open the crop panel. There is a frame in dashed line around the video; you can drag it to cut off the sides you don’t want. You can also type in values in the four Crop value boxes to crop your video more accurately.



If you want to join several video files into one file, on the main interface, tick the check box “Merge into one file”, and you will only get one output file instead of multiple files.



You can click “Trim” button to open the trim panel, drag the trim bar to set start time and end time to convert a clip from your movie. You can also type the exact time values in the Set Start Time field and Set End Time field to trim video.



This video converter provides rich video editing functions, you can click the “Effect” button and customize the brightness, saturation, contrast; volume, etc on the Effect panel. You can even apply special effects such as “Emboss”, “Negative”, “Old film” and “Gray” by selecting a special effect from its drop-down list. If you want to remove the original audio, you can convert your video with 0% volume.