How to Convert Between HD and Standard Video

With the development of broadband and camera technology, High-definition video or HD video is becoming a matter of concern for more and more people. If you search the keywords "HD video" on Google or Yahoo Answer, there will be many questions about "HD video camera", "HD video download", "HD video converter" etc. In this situation, I concluded to list and answer the common questions about HD video in this article.

What is HD Video ?
HD video stands for High-definition video, refers to any video system of higher resolution than standard-definition (SD) video, and most commonly involves display resolutions of 1280×720 pixels (720p) or 1920×1080 pixels (1080i/1080p).

PS: Some HD video download url:
WMV HD Content Showcase

What is the best HD video converter ?
This is one of the questions the net-friends asked frequently. As for me, I think that there is no best, the most important is the suitable. After I fell for HD video, I all through used Video converter to Convert HD video (.TS, .M2TS, .TP, .TRP, .MKV ) Between HD and Standard Video in Windows.

Below are 4 features of this video conversion tool I have my eyes on.

• 1. Convert HD video (.TS, .M2TS, .TP, .TRP, .MKV ) to video of all popular format for PSP, iPod, iPhone, Archos, mobile phone, Zune, etc;
• 2. Convert various video to HD video (HD AVI, HD ASF, HD MOV, HD MPEG, HD MOV, HD MP4, HD WMV);
• 3. Effect editing/cropping/trimming/customization video;
• 4. Highlight: the conversion speed is fast and steady.

How to edit and convert HD video?

1 Add files

Launch Video Converter, Click the button "Add..." to load HD video.

In addition, you can preview your loaded HD video on the right and snatch at wonderful pictures with the button "snapshot". Looking like the following illustration:

2 Edit HD video

As shown above, video converter provides two real time preview windows, so you can get the best video effects by contrast. The main edit function are listed in detail as follow:

• Cropping: Cut off the black edges of Video file. Set the Screen Size by Keeping original/ full screen/ 16:9/ 4:3.
• Effect: Adjust picture quality by changing Brightness, Contrast, Saturation, and Volume. Meet special requirement to switch output video to Gray, Emboss, Negative, and Old Film Effect trimming.
• Trimming: Trim DVD files accurately by setting the start time and end time or approximately by dragging the slider below the screen.
• Watermark: you can add beautiful images or meaningful text as watermark to HD video.

3 Set the output format

Video converter supports almost all the popular video format like AVI, MPEG/MPG,WMV, MP4, FLV, 3GP, ASF, MOV, M4V, MPG, VOB, XviD, MKV, M2TS, TS, TRP, etc. So you can convert your HD video(.TS, .M2TS, .TP, .TRP, .MKV) to PSP, iPod, iPhone, Archos, mobile phone, Zune, etc.

4 Start to convert

Set the saving path by button "Browse" and click "Convert" to convert HD video. The speed is fast.

PS: Many people complain that the standard video quality is not clean. Then what can we do to resolve this issue? The answer is Converting various standard video to HD video (HD AVI, HD ASF, HD MOV, HD MPEG, HD MOV, HD MP4, HD WMV) with video converter, cause it support HD video as output format: