The Royal Wedding DVD of William and Kate released –Watch the Royal Wedding DVD freely

The royal wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton was truly a once in a lifetime event with people all over the world tuning in to witness the celebrated union of the charismatic prince and the beautiful commoner, the most anticipated royal affair since Princess Diana wed Prince Charles in 1981. In celebration of this storybook romance, Lifetime presents ROYAL WEDDING OF A LIFETIME DVD, available on Amazon, a 6-part documentary series that examines the history of William and Kate’s courtship from their first meeting to the moment they declared "I do".

This 6-part special program includes: the similarities and differences between Princess Diana and Kate Middleton; how the friendship between William and Kate blossomed into a love affair; a fashionable preview of the high-profile event including Kate’s wedding gown; an appetizing look at the creation of the menu; an in-depth preview of William and Kate’s wedding day; what the future has in store for William and Kate.

I believe that this news must have excited many people in the world, because ever since the royal wedding day of William and Kate, there has been so many wonders whether there would be a DVD release of the royal wedding. Now, the DVD version finally comes to be available.

The following YouTube video is the vows of Prince William and Catherine Middleton say on their royal wedding ceremony. Let's re-experience the exciting moment – one of the most exciting moments in this century.  

To watch the Royal Wedding of a Lifetime DVD of William and Kate freely on your iPad, iPhone, iPod, PlayBook or any media players you have, rather than bounding to the stupid DVD players at home, you can use Leawo DVD Ripper to rip the Royal Wedding DVD to videos for iPad, iPhone, iPod, PlayBook, etc. to enjoy freely. Also, you can use the Leawo DVD Copy to backup the Royal Wedding DVD to your hard disk for safekeeping your Royal Wedding DVD discs and convenient playback.

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How do I take a screenshot from my DVD video file

When we are enjoying our treasury DVD movies, there must be some scenes that touch our heart and seduce us to snap some beautiful screenshots for freely review, personal collection or online sharing. Thus, a screen capture would be of great help. Leawo DVD Ripper is a versatile video tool which can not only act as a DVD ripper to convert DVD to video in various formats, but also as a powerful screen capture to capture screenshot of the DVD video. You can simply take snapshots of your videos and save for future editing, sharing, comparing or publishing.

The below is a brief guide for you to capture DVD video screenshots with Leawo DVD Ripper:

Firstly, add DVD videos to this multifunctional screen capture. Once the program finishes importing DVD, double click on any one of the titles or chapters to start previewing it.

During the preview, you can you can shuffle the slipper on the playbar to facilitate the search for the wanted screen. And then a simple press on the screen capture button “” below the preview player can help you capture the screenshots you prefer. By pressing the screen capture button, you will see the following picture, which is the screenshot you captured. You can check it to make sure whether you are satisfied or not.

If you are satisfied with the screenshots you captured, then just click the "Save as" to save the screenshots and then capture other screenshots as you like. If not, click "Close" to make another capture.

As for the image formats of your captured screenshots to save as, you can click "Tools -> Options -> Thumbnail" panel to choose formats from PNG, JPG, and BMP. It is also feasible for you to set the Image Size and destination folders to save screenshots.

Acting as a video screenshot tool is one of the handy sidelines Leawo DVD Ripper is conveniently capable of. With more than 100 output profiles, you can easily rip and convert DVD to video, backup your favorite DVD movie, put it across platforms, into portable media players, onto internet broadcast sites and so on, allowing you to enjoy anytime anywhere.

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How to compress videos to make videos smaller

There are always times when we want to compress videos to make videos smaller for our portable players like iPhone, iPod, PlayBook, iPad, mobile phones, etc. Without a suitable and useful tool, it would be a rather hard problem for us to fulfill our entertainment.

Leawo DVD Ripper is a suitable tool to rip DVD to video in all kinds of formats while it can help you adjust the videos size to your content, to compress videos to make videos smaller for playback on portable devices or for space saving. Although it involves the knowledge on codec settings that matter in the task, it is nevertheless easy to learn, by following a step by step guide below.

How to compress DVD videos to make videos smaller with Leawo DVD Ripper guide:

Step 1: load the DVD movie into Leawo DVD Ripper for processing. After import, you will see numbers of titles and chapters listed in order. Select all to get a full length output or otherwise partial output by your wish.

Step 2: select a profile for the DVD conversion output. More than 100 profiles, with reference to common video formats and particular terminal formats, are in distinct order. You may judge on the file extension and the description for one that matches your need.

Step 3: assuming you have assigned a XviD profile, then click "Settings" to open codec settings panel. There is a full list of codec settings, dividing into two parts, for you to make distinct differences.

Video Codec: it is to determine which arithmetic to use in encoding the video. If you have ever uploaded videos to YouTube, you should be acquainted with YouTube's recommendations on uploaded video format, which are H.264, MPEG-2 and MPEG-4. Leawo DVD Ripper has many codec plugins to cover most picky demands.

Quality: it specifies how much the video quality is to preserve after conversion. High quality usually brings good details on screen with the only holdback of large file size. It is recommended for video backup or broadcasting. When you want to view the video on small screen or memory-tight terminals, low quality is the best choice.

Bit Rate: it describes the bits per second in the video stream, reflects the video quality and video size in number form.

Video Size: namely the actual resolution of the video display in full size. Common DVD video size is 720*480, or 480p.

Frame Rate: it gives the idea of the frames per second in the video stream. A smooth video usually adapts a frame rate higher than 24. If the video contains mostly intense shots, a higher frame rate is required. Otherwise, you can lower the frame rate and reduce redundant frames in a slow motion video.

Aspect Ratio: it affects the display style on your player. 4:3 is preferred aspect ratio for TV or standard CRT screen, while 16:9 is often favored by wide screen LCD screen.

Audio Codec: same to video codec, except it is dedicated to audio. A moderate choice is MP3 for its widespread popularity around cyberspace. AAC features a better performance in a smaller file size, preferred on memory-tight cell phones or PMPs. AMR is the best choice for carrying voice because of its slim body, but not suitable for music enjoyment.

Quality: same as video.

Bit Rate: same as video. Usually a video file would contain both video stream and audio stream, so the total bit rate will be the sum of video bit rate and audio bit rate.

Sample Rate: a factor that determines the details of audio. It goes the same as Frame Rate.

Channels: an audio stream can be single channel (mono), double channels (stereo) or even 5.1 channels (surrounding). It can be easily determined by how many sub sound boxes you have in your audio system.

Important rules to reduce the size on output:

1. Use high compressing codec such as H.264 to convert your movie. The output file size is smaller while the quality is better.

2. Do not apply too high settings on bit rate and sample rate. It will increase the output file size and obviously not in the direction to reduce it. A modest advice is to use the default settings to reach the best balance between video quality and file size.

3. Do not use overwhelming frame rate. 24 fps can well support a smooth movie playback while more means waste of frames and space.

Now you should get a picture of how the codec settings work and are ready to start conversion. Leawo DVD Ripper provides comfortable experience during conversion, such as batch converting and after done actions, brings the task easier and faster to its goal.

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How to crop video for iPad, iPhone, iPod, PlayBook,etc.

Some DVD movies are accompanied with black margins, so that they can be comfortably displayed on standard screens without distortion. However, most media players like iPad, iPhone, PlayBook, etc. can instantaneously fill empty space with black during video playback, such preset black margins become useless and are in an appeal to be removed. Leawo DVD Ripper can help users to crop video black margins for different media players like iPad, iPhone, iPod, PlayBook, mobile phones, etc.

Open Leawo DVD Ripper and load the DVD resource for cropping.

Then select one of the titles or chapters and click the "Edit" button to reveal the video edit panel. The panel packs in 4 video editing functions: Trim, Crop, Effect and Watermark. The Crop feature is easily found among them.

There are three ways to crop the videos on the panel:

1. Use the Letter Box profile. It provides several profiles to easily pinpoint the black margins in common cases.

2. Adjust the parameters of Left, Top, and Cropped Size to crop right and downward parameters to get an accurate crop shape.

3. Most straightforward is to tell apart the black margins with your naked eye and directly resize the frame on the preview window, representing the output video size.

The modification will be reflected on Output Preview panel. You can preview the output video when cropping the black margins. It is very important for you to crop the DVD video according to the display aspect ratio of your players. Meanwhile, your display settings about video playback would influence the output effects of your cropped videos.  

After having the video cropped, we have to generate a new video file with this modification. Leawo DVD Ripper embraces more than 100 output profiles you can choose from, ranging from the popular formats to the fashionable portable players.

There you have successfully cropped the DVD movie with black margins thoroughly removed. Leawo DVD Ripper can be a very handy tool in ripping DVD, converting DVD to any other format, and cropping their black margins, because it is a professional DVD ripper all right.

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Rip Battle of Los Angeles DVD to iPad 2 to watch Battle of Los Angeles DVD on iPad 2 freely

The DVD version of Battle of Los Angeles has been released on June 14^th. Now it would be feasible for all movie fans to watch the Battle of Los Angeles DVD at their comfort in their own house with DVD players. However, many fans still think it is not convenient as they would like to watch the HD Battle of Los Angeles DVD on their portable media players, like iPad 2, iPhone, PlayBook, or any other portable players.

Here is a solution for you guys to rip DVD to iPad 2 alike portable media players, taking the Battle of Los Angeles DVD for example, with the Leawo DVD Ripper, a powerful DVD ripping tool to rip DVD to video in all file formats. 

A brief guide to use Leawo DVD Ripper to convert Battle of Los Angeles DVD to iPad 2 videos:

Step 1: When you have downloaded Leawo DVD Ripper, install and launch it for conversion. Click the "Load DVD" button on the menu bar to add Battle of Los Angeles DVD to this program.

Step 2: Click the "Profile" frame to choose output profile for your iPad 2, say iPad H.264 video. (Note: You can input your device name or desired video format to the profile search bar for time saving.)

Step 3: Click the convert button on the bottom right to start converting.

By converting DVD to iPad 2 video files, then you would be able to transfer the converted DVD files to your iPad 2 for freely playback. The whole process is quite easy yet fast. 

Note:

1. For more detailed operations, you can check here: How to rip DVD to iPad 2 for freely playback.

2. If you like, you can click the "Edit" button to make customizations for your DVD movies: trim video length, crop video size, adjust video effects and add image or text watermark.

3. If you are using a Mac computer, then you could use Leawo DVD Ripper for Mac, with the guide link here: How to rip DVD to iPad 2 on Mac.

DVD news: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince DVD is coming soon

Good news for all Harry Potter fans: the Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Price DVD is coming on June 14^th, 2011. Now, you could watch the Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Price movie time and time again as you like at your comfort in your own house with DVD player.

Brief Plot: In Harry Potter's sixth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft, Harry finds a book marked mysteriously, "This book is the property of the Half Blood Prince," which helps him excel at Potions class and teaches him a few dark and dangerous ones along the way. Voldemort is tightening his grip on both the Muggle and wizarding worlds and Hogwarts is no longer the safe haven it once was. Harry suspects that dangers may even lie within the castle, but Dumbledore is more intent upon preparing him for the final battle that he knows is fast approaching. Together they work to find out about Voldemort's past so they can find out what might his only weakness, and, to this end, Dumbledore recruits his old friend and colleague, Professor Horace Slughorn, whom he believes holds crucial information. Even as the decisive showdown looms, romance blossoms for Harry, Ron, Hermione and their classmates. Love is in the air, but danger lies ahead and Hogwarts may never be the same.

To watch Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince DVD freely on your hard disk or other portable media players like iPad, iPhone, iPod, PlayBook, mobile phones, etc. you can use Leawo DVD Ripper to rip Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince DVD to videos in various formats like MP4, AVI, MPEG, 3GP, WMV, etc. for various portable media players. Meanwhile, if you want to keep your DVD collections like Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince DVD well protected, you can use Leawo DVD Copy to copy and backup Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince DVD to hard disk for safekeeping and convenient playback.

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What DVD movies to watch for this weekend and DVD release preview for next week

Wow, another weekend is coming. Time to take a rest and enjoy yourselves freely. What have you been planning to do in this weekend? Climbing hills, meet your friends, go out for a short trip, go to cinema for the latest movies, or just stay at home to enjoy some recently released DVD movies? Here, I have got some latest DVD movie discs release news for all you guys and a list of DVD movies to be released next week.

Some recommended DVD movie discs released this week (June 7, this Tuesday) for weekend relaxation:

1. Just Go With It DVD disc.

In "Just Go With It" DVD, the plastic surgeon (Adam Sandler), romancing a much younger schoolteacher, enlists his loyal assistant (Jennifer Aniston) to pretend to be his soon to be ex-wife, in order to cover up a careless lie. When more lies backfire, the assistant's kids become involved, and everyone heads off for a weekend in Hawaii that will change all their lives.

2. True Grit DVD disc

and Fourteen-year-old Mattie Ross (Hailee Steinfeld) joins an aging U.S. marshal (Jeff Bridges) and another lawman (Matt Damon) in tracking her father's killer into hostile Indian territory in Joel and Ethan Coen's adaptation of Charles Portis' original novel. Sticking more closely to the source material than the 1969 feature adaptation starring Western icon John Wayne, the Coens' True Grit tells the story from the young girl's perspective, and re-teams the celebrated filmmaking duo with their No Country for Old Men producing partner Scott Rudin. Josh Brolin and Barry Pepper co-star.

3. Sanctum DVD disc

An intrepid team of explorers gets trapped in a complex underground cave system when a tropical storm makes it impossible to escape the same way they entered in this claustrophobic adventure drama from director Alister Grierson and executive producer James Cameron. Inspired by actual events, Sanctum tells the tale of Frank McGuire (Richard Roxburgh), a master diver intent on being the first to explore the Esa-ala cave system in the South Pacific. Shortly after Frank descends into the caves with a team that includes his teenage son, Josh (Rhys Wakefield), and expedition bankroller Carl Hurley (Ioan Gruffudd), a massive storm collapses the entrance to the system, forcing the adventurers to plunge deeper into the darkness in search of an alternate exit. With supplies quickly dwindling and water levels rapidly rising, Frank and his team surmise that their best hope for survival is to follow an underground river thought to empty into the ocean. But given that few explorers have ever even dared set foot in the Esa-ala system, no one quite knows for sure whether they're racing toward freedom, or another dead end.

4. Blue Crush 2 DVD disc

Dana, a killer surfer from California, travels to the breathtaking coasts of South Africa, determined to fulfill her mother's dream of surfing the legendary Jeffrey's Bay. With nothing but her mom's journal as a guide and a fun-loving group of surf fanatics watching her back, Dana faces epic waves, tough locals and her own fears in this unforgettable surf odyssey.

5. Biutiful DVD disc

A love story between a father and his children. This is the journey of Uxbal, a conflicted man who struggles to reconcile fatherhood, love, spirituality, crime, guilt and mortality amidst the dangerous underworld of modern Barcelona. His livelihood is earned out of bounds, his sacrifices for his children know no bounds. Like life itself, this is a circular tale that ends where it begins. As fate encircles him and thresholds are crossed, a dim, redemptive road brightens, illuminating the inheritances bestowed from father to child, and the paternal guiding hand that navigates life's corridors, whether bright, bad -- or biutiful.

There are still many other excellent DVD movie discs released in this week, and you guys could get the news on Amazon or some other resources. The following list is a brief introduction about the DVD discs to be released next week.

DVD disc release list for next week:

10-Movie Kids Pack V.2

36th Precinct

Adrift

American Loggers

Big Mommas: Like Father Like Son

Blood Night: The Legend of Mary Hatchet

Chained

Circus

Cold Day in Hell

Con Artist

Crash and Burn/Robot Wars

Deadly Dolls Triple Feature

Deadly Dolls Triple Feature with Bonus

Demon King Daimao Complete Collection

Dinosaurs: Perfect Predators

Doctor Who: Frontios - Episode 133

Dust of Life

Elviras Movie Macabre: Night of Living Dead

Elviras Movie Macabre: Satanic Rites of Dracula

Fall Down Dead

Family Collector's Set V.5

Foo Fighters: Back And Forth

Fruits Basket

Gallants

Ghost Stories Collectors Set

Glades: Season 1

The Grifters

Hall Pass

Haven-Complete First Season

Hellraiser VII: Deader

Hero 108: Season One V.1

Heroes of Bikini Bottom

Hollywood Safari / Secret of the Andes

Image

Insignificance

Jackass 3.5: The Unrated Movie

Jonah's Mission

Kill the Irishman

Kingdom of War Part I

Kingdom of War Part I & Part II

Kingdom of War Part II

Korkoro

Last Exile: Complete Series - Vc

Latino

Legend of the Fist: The Return of Chen Zhen

Legend of the Fist: The Return of Chen Zhen Collector's Edition

Lord, All Men Can't Be Dogs

The Makioka Sisters

Man V Food: Season 3

Marvel Knights Spider-Woman: Agent Of S.W.O.R.D

Me Doing Standup

Monogamy

N-Secure

One From the Heart

Piper Penguin and His Fantastic Flying Machines

A Rage in Harlem

Revolutionary Girl Utena: Student Council Saga

Shot in the Dark

Smoke Signals

Sweet Karma

Triple Hit

Tyler Perry's House of Payne, Vol. 8

When They Were Young

When Zachary Beaver Came Town / Undercover Angel

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DVD release: Convert The Adjustment Bureau to iPad 2 to Freely Watch The Adjustment Bureau DVD on iPad

The 2011 American film loosely based on the Philip K. Dick short story "Adjustment Team", The Adjustment Bureau is coming out on DVD disc on June 21. This romantic science fiction film was written and directed by George Nolfi and stars Matt Damon and Emily Blunt. The cast also includes Anthony Mackie, John Slattery, Jon Stewart, Michael Kelly, and Terence Stamp.

Brief plot introduction: Academy Award® nominee Matt Damon (The Bourne trilogy) stars in this action thriller about a man who glimpses the future Fate has planned for him – and chooses to fight for his own destiny. Battling the powerful Adjustment Bureau across under and through the streets of New York he risks his destined greatness to be with the only woman he's ever loved (Emily Blunt: The Young Victoria, The Devil Wears Prada).

The Adjustment Bureau DVD details:

Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC

Language: English

Subtitles: English, French, Spanish

Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)

Number of discs: 1

Rated: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)

Studio: Universal Studios

DVD Release Date: June 21, 2011

Run Time: 106 minutes

To watch The Adjustment Bureau DVD on iPad 2, you need to use a DVD to iPad 2 converter which could help you convert The Adjustment Bureau DVD to iPad 2 friendly video file formats like MP4 or H.264. Here I would like to make a brief guide on how to convert The Adjustment Bureau DVD to iPad 2 with Leawo DVD Ripper, a powerful DVD ripping tool to rip DVD to videos in various formats. 

Step 1: After you have downloaded this DVD to iPad 2 Converter, then install and launch it to add The Adjustment Bureau DVD discs to the tool for converting.

Step 2: Click the "Profile" bar to choose proper output profile for your iPad 2, say MP4. You can input your device name or your desired profile into the profile search bar to save time and get the exact output profile.

Step 3: Click the convert button on the bottom right to start converting The Adjustment Bureau DVD to iPad 2.

Step 4: After you have converted The Adjustment Bureau DVD to iPad 2 MP4 video files, then you can sync the converted MP4 video files to your iPad 2 through your iTunes.

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