The Output Settings area lets users to control output file folder and format.
Format: Click to show the profile list from which you select output format.
Settings: Click to set advanced video and audio parameters.
Merge into one file: Click to combine all selected items together as one output file.
Output: The path of output location.
Browse: Click to specify output location. If you’d like to change the default output location, please click “Browse” button and navigate to the folder you want to save videos to.
Open: Click to open the folder that contains generated files.
Set Output Format
Click on the "Format" bar to set output format. When the profile list pops up, you can select desired video/audio format from the list.
Available Output formats:
Common Video (*.mov, *.m4v, *.mp4)
Common Audio (*.mp3, *.wav, *.m4a, *.aiff, *.aac)
Apple TV optimized formats (*.mp4)
iPad optimized formats (*.mp4)
iPhone optimized formats (*.mp4)
iPod optimized formats (*.mp4)
Tip 1: You are encouraged to use H.264 codec in order to take advantage of the GPU en-decoding acceleration of Nvidia GeForce Graphics card and their successors.
Tip 2: The Profile Manager helps you sort out the formats, hide rarely used ones, and submit your demands for new format to Pavtube in case thatthere is not a format that meets your needs. Find details in User Interface section.
Tip 3: To learn more information about how to set a format for your device, check for more guides at Blu-ray to Apple TV Converter for Mac product page.
Customize Profile Settings
To further customize the output file size/quality, click “Settings” button to adjust advanced video/audio parameters.
Video Section: You can set Codec, Bit Rate, Size, and Frame Rate to optimize the quality of the video.
Audio Section: You can set Codec, Bit Rate, Sample Rate and Channels to make the quality better.
Save As: Click to save your settings as a new format.
To create a new format, you can adjust the audio and video parameter as you like, click "Save as"' button and rename the format before clicking "OK" to save the new format. When you'd like to use the new created format at next run, just click the format bar and find it in "Custom" group.
Reset: Click to reload the default settings.
Tips and Tricks on customizing settings:
1. To get 16:9 aspect ratio: set the Video Size to 1920*1080/ 1280*720/960*540/ 854*480/ 720*405.
2. To improve video quality: set video bitrate up.
3. To cut down file size: set video bitrate down.
4. To get AAC 5.1/ Dolby Digital surround sound: set 5.1 channels from dropdown box of Audio Channels.