Sansa guide: how to get videos and songs from DVD, YouTube and other video files

SanDisk has released series of media players such as Sansa Clip, Sansa Fuze, Sansa View. For our consumers, we could enjoy more movies and songs with those media players easier. Their features of big storage capacity, long-time battery life, high quality of video and sound enable us to enjoy our movies and music more convenient. Also they support for main digital video formats so that commen digital videos and music can play with Sansa. For example, Sansa Clip supports MP3, OGG and WMA files. Its capacity is 1GB, 2GB or 4GB. Its battery can last for 15 hours of playback. Sansa Fuze supports MP3, OGG, WMA, WAV and MPEG-4 formats. Its capacity: 2GB, 4GB or 8GB. Its battery can last for 24 hours music or 5 hours video playback. Sansa View supports MPEG-4, H.264, WMV, MP3, WMA, and non-DRM AAC formats. Its capacity: 8GB, 16GB or 32GB. Its battery can last for 35 hours music or 7 hours video playback.
However when you enjoy your movies and music, other problem may bother you much: how and where to get movies and songs for my Sansa? Here I write this guide to help you solve your problem. For me, I have two ways to get videos and songs for my Sansa, it is listed as the follow two parts:
Part 1: how to get movies and songs from DVDs?
Part 2: how to get videos and music from other video format files such as from YouTube, 3GP, AVI, MOV, etc？

Part 1: how to get movies and songs from DVDs
You may have big DVD collection in your home but very upset because you can’t enjoy those classic movies and songs with your smart Sansa player. No upset any longer. Below I will tell you how to transfer your DVD movies to your Sansa with Nidesoft DVD to Sansa Converter.
First you need to download and install it, then you will need only three steps to do this job.
Step 1: Insert the DVD disc into the DVD Drive. Click the Open DVD button, browse your computer, find the DVD folder of the movie, open it and select tiles and chapters you want.


Step 2: Click the “profile” button and select the “Sansa Video MPEG-4 (*.mp4)” format. You will get mp4 video for your Sansa. If you just want the audio file from DVD you may select the “MP3 – MPEG Layer-3 Audio (*.mp3)” format.
Step 3: Click the “convert” button to start the conversion.
In few minutes, the conversion will be completed and the converted mp4 video or mp3 audio files can play in your Sansa player.
Tips: after get the video or audio files, you also need Sansa Media Converter to load your files to your Sansa. This software is available here:Sansa Media Converter
skip registration, you may download it directly.

Part 2: how to get videos and music from other video format files such as from YouTube, 3GP, AVI, MOV, etc.
You may make your favorite videos on your PC, download YouTube videos in FLV format, or store some interesting videos in your computer. Of course you can’t take your PC everywhere to watch those movies. Want to enjoy them easier with your Sansa player? Just transfer them to Sansa with Nidesoft Sansa Video Converter.

Download and install this software, then follow my ways to complete the conversion.
Step 1: Click “add” button to import your videos from your computer. Select the video files you want to convert. Also you may preview your video in the right window.

Step 2: click the “format” drop-down list and select the “Sansa Video MPEG-4 (*.mp4)” format for your Sansa video. But if you want to get audio files from the video you may select the “MP3 – MPEG Layer-3 Audio (*.mp3)” format for your Sansa song.
Step 3: click the “convert” button and start the conversion.
Ok, after the conversion finished, you may load the output videos or songs to your Sansa player with Sansa Media Converter and then enjoy!

Ok, now if you have clear idea about how to get more videos and songs for your Sansa? Just enjoy them. If your still have any questions, just post here, I will try my best to help you.

How to get music from video with video converter

You may have lots of MTV shows with your favorite songs or talk shows with your pursuing superstars, you like their voices so much. If your player doesn’t support videos or you just want to enjoy the wonderful music instead of the whole video, I have good idea to get music from video, just with a wonderful video converter. This converter is a powerful software that can convert between almost all popular video and audio formats in high quality at fast speed and it is easy to use. So it is our best choise to get music from video. You may free download and install it.

After download and install this software I will tell you the step by step way of getting music from video.
Step 1: click add button and import the videos from your conputer. Nidesoft video converter supports batch conversion so you can import multiple files at one time.

Step 2: click the “format” drop-down list to select the output format. As you want to get a audio file, you may choose a audio format supported by your player:Nidesoft Video Converter could support output many Audio format, including MP3, MP2, WAV, OGG, AAC, RA, WMA, etc. to be played on your iPod, iPhone, Zune, PSP, Creative Zen, Sony Walkman, Nokia, Moto cell phone, Google G1 phone and so on.

Step 3: click the convert button and start the conversion. The conversion will be finished in a short ime and you may view the process at the bottom.
Ok, now you have got music from videos and next what you need to do is enjoy it.

How to Get Videos from Youtube and Use it in iPod, iPhone, PSP, mobile phone and other portable players

There are all kinds of videos shared on Youtube and we can find any videos we wanted on it. However, when you find it how can you get it and use it? Now I will introduce you a good way that can not only download videos from Youtube but also convert the downloaded video to any format so that you may use it in other ways. What you need is a wonderful youtube video converter.
download it

After install this powerful software I will show you step by step way:
Step 1: Add YouTube
a. You may first go to the youtube website: http://www.youtube.com and find your favorite videos. Paste the links of the video in the IE line.
b. On this software click “Add YouTube” button, you may see a another window. In this window copy the link in the first blank box under “Enter YouTube URL”, you may also rename your video by enter its new name in the next blank box “Video File Rename”

Step 2: download youtube video
After you have add the links and rename your video, you just need to click the “download” button, then your video will be downloaded in a short time.
Now you have get your video from YouTube website, but this is a “flv” file, if you want to use it in other ways you still need to convert it to other format.

Step 3: convert the video to your iPod, iPhone, PSP, mobile phone and other portable players.
a. click the “format” drop-down list to select the output format. You may choose the profile according to your portable player. For example, if you want to get the video in your iPod Touch, just select “iPod Touch Video MPEG-4 (*.mp4)”.

b. click “convert” button and the conversion start and will be completed in a short time.
Ok, now you have downloaded the video from YouTue and also converted it to your player, just enjoy it.

How to Rip DVD to iPod, MP4, AVI, WMV, etc. and edit the video with CROP,ZOOM,TRIM functions.

With the development of technology, various of media portable players emerged and have enriched our daily life greatly. We enjoy our favorite movies and music with all kinds of portable players such as iPod, iPhone, Zune, PSP, mobile phone and so on. At the same time, DVD players gradually lost its dominance. People would like to enjoy their movies and music with smart portable players anytime and anywhere rather than just stay at home or carry big DVD players when outside. Thus, we need to convert our DVD movies to our portable players or any other formats. Now I will introduce you good ways of ripping DVD movies to iPod, MP4, AVI, WMV and other popular video and audio formats in high quality. What’s more, during the conversion, you may edit your videos with crop, zoom and trim functions.
Part 1: How to rip DVD to iPod, MP4, AVI, WMV and other popular video and audio formats?
Part 2: How to edit your video with crop, zoom and trim functions?

Part 1: How to rip DVD to iPod, MP4, AVI, WMV and other popular video and audio formats?
To rip your DVD to other video and audio formats, you only need a good software. I strongly recommend you Nidesoft DVD Ripper. This DVD Ripper can rip DVD files to almost all popular video and audio formats in high quality at fast speed.
download it
After download and install this powerful software, only three steps are needed to complete the conversion.
Step 1: load DVD movies
a. Insert the DVD disc into the DVD Drive
b. Click the Open DVD button, browse your computer, find the DVD folder of the movie and open it. (This DVD Ripper can rip copyright protected DVD movies, but you should remember that it’s illegal to rip DVD for any business purposes).
























After add your movie, you can click any title or chapter to preview it in the preview window on the right. Then you can choose any titles or chapters you want to convert by click the check boxes before them. In this way, you can choose to convert DVD with the entire movie or just convert one or several chapters.

Step 2: you may customize the output video with its full functions.
Audio Track: Select an audio track from the available audio tracks of your DVD movie.
Subtitle: Common DVD movies have several subtitles such as English, Chinese, French, etc. You can choose one language you prefer or select “None” to delete subtitle.
Profile: Click the button and show the list of profiles, you can select the profiles you want. For example, if you want to convert your DVD movies to YouTube, just select “YouTube video (*.flv)”. Or you may choose the profile according to your portable player. For example, if you want to convert your DVD movies to your iPod video player, click the “iPod video MPEG-4 (*.mp4)”.
























Settings: If you want to customize the output video’s quality, you can click the settings button to open the settings window and set video resolution, video bitrate, audio channels, audio bitrate.
Destination: Click the browse button and select a location on your computer for the output video files.
Merge: A regular DVD movie has several chapters, you can convert several chapters into one by click the blank box before merge into one file. Click the check box before any chapter you want and merge them into one file.

Step 3: now you can start your conversion.
After the settings finished, you can just click the convert button to start your conversion. You can view the conversion speed at the bottom. The conversion will be completed in few minutes.
Ok, finished, so easy!

Part 2: How to edit your video with crop, zoom and trim functions?
This powerful software enable you edit your videos during the conversion, you may use crop, effect, trim functions to make your perfect videos. Now I will introduce you how to use crop, zoom and trim functions with this DVD Ripper.
1. Crop DVD video
Your DVD video may have black edge, you can use this Crop function to remove them. Click Crop button, in the crop window click the Crop Mode dropdown list, there are four options available including no crop, cut off all, cut off top and bottom and cut off left and right. You can choose one of them according to your need. For example, if you want to remove the black side on the top and bottom, select cut off top and bottom.






















2. Select Zoom Mode
After crop your video you may select Zoom Mode, click the Zoom Mode dropdown list, there are three options available including Letterbox, Pan and Scan and Full Screen.
a. Full Screen
If you want to enjoy your cropped video in full screen, select Full Screen Mode. In this mode, the converted video will be stretched and the picture ratio will change.
b. Letterbox
If you want to enjoy your videos with the original aspect ratio, you may select letterbox. In this mode the aspect ratio remains, the blank place will add black edge.
c. Full Screen
If you don’t want the black edge, you still have other choice, select Pan and Scan, you will get a video in full screen, the ratio remains while some were cut.











3. Trim DVD video
as you have selected the clips to convert, you can trim any segment of the clips by clicking the trim button. You can move the slide below the screen to trim any segment and the blue line will be the captured parts.
























Ok, you have ripped your DVD movies to other format you want and you also finished the edition of your movie, now just enjoy it. Wish you enjoy your days. If you still have problem about it, you may send email to: support@nidesoft.com I am glad to help you solve your problem.