Cisdem Video Converter for Windows User Guide

Cisdem Video Converter is a complete video toolbox. It can convert videos, rip both DVDs and blu-ray DVDs, compress videos, download online videos and edit videos with trim, crop, rotate and more. Want to know more about Cisdem Video Converter? Check out a step-by-step guide below.

 

Part 1  Download & Install

1. You can download the installation package of Cisdem Video Converter from the below link.

Free Download  

2. Install Cisdem Video Converter with the downloaded package.

Double-click the .exe file to run it.

Select a folder to install the program (It is recommended to save it under D: drive instead of C: Drive)

Click Next > Next > Install to continue the installation process, when the below window appears, it means that the program has been installed successfully.

Tips: 

If you get an error "cannot find Microsoft Visual C++ DLL's" when you are trying to install Cisdem Video Converter as the screenshot shown below

You can install the redistributable: VC_redist.x64.exe from the link below:

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/error-message-for-msvcp140dll-and-vcruntime140dll/8c2c0803-08ac-4275-838e-b692077b5c9e

 

Part 2 Activation (Optional)

After installing the program, you need to activate the program if you want to use the full version features.

1. Find Cisdem Video Converter on your desktop or in the folder where you installed it, double click to run it, and then click the key icon at the right upper corner

2. Copy-n-paste the license code into the popped-up window, click Activate.

 

Part 3 Video Converter

There is no video player in the market that can support playing all the video formats, so own an easy to use and high quality video converter seems to be nesscerary.

Step 1 Add videos

Select the Convert tab, and then you can import videos by dragging or dropping or clicking  at the left lower corner of the main interface.

If you want to remove the added video files, you can just highlight the target videos, click  or  press the "Backspace" key on your keyboard.

 

Step 2 Select a target Output format

There are various output video formats supported with Cisdem Video Converter, just click the icon, then you can select a desired format. If you want to convert multiple videos to the same format, you can directly click "Convert all tasks to" and select your desired format.

Click  or , it will bring you to an Advanced Settings window, you can change encoder, resolution, frame rate and quality for your video and audio.

If you use this setttings usually, you can click  to save your custom settings for your further use.

 

Step 3 Edit the video (Optional)

You can click  at the right upper corner of the video to get into the edit window to make any changes as you need. You can check Video Editor for more details.

 

Step 4 Select a location through "Save to" to save the converted file, and then click  to start the conversion.

Tips:
1. You can directly click  after the video to directly access to the converted video.

2. If you want to generate one video to combine all the videos in, just check on  before clicking the convert button. 

Please note that when you slide on the Merge button, please click "Convert all tasks to" to choose or change the output format.

 

Part 4 DVD/Blu-ray Converter

Nowadays, DVD is not popular in our life, however we can't deny that DVD carrys our old time and precious memories. There might be instances that when you want to watch those old DVDs but found it is not easy to get a DVD drive to insert the DVD disc. To conveniently view the DVDs' content, the best solution is convert the DVDs into digitial video formats.

Step 1 Add DVDs

Navigate to the Rip tab, you can directly drag and drop the DVD folder into the blank place of the main interface or click  at the left lower corner of the main interface.

After loading all the titles of your DVD or Blu-ray, you can also remove the titles that you don't want to rip. Just highlight the target titles, click  or  press the "Backspace" key on your keyboard.

 

Step 2 Mark the titles you want to convert

Normally a DVD contains several titles in it, the main titles and some short titles. You are allowed to select the titles you need to convert by ticking the check box at the left upper corner of the thumbnail.

Tips:

1. When a DVD had multiple audio tracks and subtitles, you are only allowed to select one audio track or subtitles to rip, please correctly select the audio track and subtitles after loading the DVD disc.

2. Right click one of the titles, you can choose to check all/uncheck all the titles.

 

Step 3 Select the Output format

There are various output video formats supported with Cisdem Video Converter, just click the "Convert all tasks to" to select your desired format.

 

Step 4 Eidt the video (Optional)

You can click  at the right upper corner of the video to get into the edit window to make any changes as you need. You can check Video Editor for more details.

 

Step 5 Click  to start the conversion.

Tips:
1. You can directly click  after the video to directly access to the converted video.

2. If you want to generate one video to combine all the videos in, just check on  before clicking the convert button. 

Please note that when you slide on the Merge button, please click "Convert all tasks to" to choose or change the output format.

 

Part 5 Video Downloader

Cisdem supports downloading videos and musics from 1000+ video-sharing sites, including registered websites and live steams.

Step 1 Copy the video links/URLs from video website.

Step 2 Navigate to the Download tab, paste the link/URL into the address box, press Enter on your keyboard or click  after the address box, Cisdem Video Converter will start loading the video's information and display on the interface.

Tips:

1. In addition to the URL of individual video, you are allowed to paste the URL of playlist to directly download the videos from a playlist.

2. If you need to paste URLs in bulk, you can click  at the left lower corner of the main interface, and then paste the URLs in the following blank box. Please paste one URL per line, and you can switch to a new line by pressing Enter on your keyboard.

3. If the video that you wants to download requires login, please confirm your default browser has logged in the account before loading the video.

 

Step 3 Select an output format you'd like to download.

Normally Cisdem will help you to auto select a proper video format with the highest quality, you can also select another output format to download.

 

Step 4 Download the YouTube videos

Select a location through "Save to" to save the downloaded videos. You can click  after the video's thrumbnail to download a target video or directly click  to download all the videos at the same time. 

When the download completes, it will display a  after the video's thumbnail, you can also directly click  to access to the downloaded videos.

Note: Cisdem will download the source video file from the online website, if the downloaded file cannot be played with the built-in media player on your PC, you can use Cisdem Video Converter to convert the downloaded files to a new Mp4 file or other formats file.

 

Part 6 Video Compressor

If you want to reduce the video's size to upload to website or send in email, you can use the video compressor tool in Cisdem Video Converter, which is able to compress the video files by percentage, file size and parameters.

Step 1 Add files

Navigate to the Compress tab, you can directly drag and drop video files into the program or click  at the left lower corner of the main interface to add video files into the program.

After adding the video files, you can click the Play icon on the thumbnail or right click the video to play the video file. Also you can click  , press the "Backspace" key on your keyboard or right click the video to delete the wrongly added video.

 

Step 2 Select a file size you want to compress to

1. Quick Compress: You can directly click  to select a proper percentage you want to compress for all the imported video files.

2. Advanced Compress: You can click  to get into the advanced setting window to select a file size and parameter for each video file.

3. Preview compressed video: After selecting the file size, you can click  to check the compressed video.

 

Step 3 Select a save location and start compressing.

Select a proper location through the "Save to" option, click  to start compressing all the video files.

Tips: You can directly click  after the video to directly access to the compressed video.

 

Part 7 Video Editor

Cisdem Video Converter also offers a full-featured video editor tool suitable for your different purposes. You can directly navigate to the Edit tab and add the video files into the program or under the Convert/Rip tab, click  at the right upper corner of the imported video to get into the Edit window.

The edit tools includes Trim, Crop, Rotate, Watermark, Effects, Subtitle, Chapter and Volume, below are the detailed descrption for all the tools.

a. Trim

1. You can click  to play the selected file. Move  and  of the playback progress bar to choose a specific part of the video.

2. You can also manually enter the Start Time and End Time to confirm the clip to be trimmed.                                      

3. To reset the start and end time back to the original, just click 

 

b. Crop 

1. Navigate to Crop tab, you can manually adjust the cropping area by dragging the central and surrounding handles.

2. You can also adjust the size and position of cropping area by changing the figures in those four boxes. 

3. You can select an output aspect ratio for cropping with four options: Keep Original Ratio, 16:9, 4:3 and Any.

4. To reset the video back to the original, just click 

 

c. Rotate

1. Navigate to Rotate tab, each of the four buttons specifically represents one specific way to rotate or flip the video, click the button as your requirement.

2. To reset the video back to the original, just click  

3. If you want to apply the rotate to all the imported video files, you can just click  to apply the rotate effect to all the imported video files.

 

d. Watermark

1. Navigate to Watermark tab, you are allowed to add any text watermark or image watermark to the video.

2. Text watermark: select the "Text type", type the content in the box, pick its font and color by clicking  and  , and set its position and degree of transparency. 

3. Image watermark: select the "Image type", click  to choose the image to be used as a watermark, and set its position and degree of transparency.

4. If you want to use the watermark on all loaded videos, you can click  after finishing the watermark.

 

e. Effects

1. Navigate to Effects tab, set the degrees of Brightness, Contrast, Saturation, Tint, Temperature by resetting their respective control sliders.

2. In this section, you also can find the deinterlacement feature, which can turn interlaced videos into a non-interlaced form, enhancing spectators viewing experience rather appreciably. And it is also quite easy to use. Just need to check the box of "Enable Deinterlacing".

3. To cancel all the effects and reset the video back to the original, just click 

4. If you want to use the same effects on all loaded videos, you can click  after finishing the settings.

 

f. Subtitle

Navigate to Subtitle tab, and then you are able to select embedded subtitles the video includes or import an external subtitle files from your local drive.

Tips: Cisdem Video Converter supports .srt, .ass and .ssa subtitle file.

 

g. Chapter

Navigate to Chapter tab, click  , fill in the end time, press "Enter" on your keyboard to confirm your filling, then Chapter 1 has been created. You can also add chapter2 or more chapters in the same manner.

Tips: Cisdem Video Converter can not only create chapters,  but also recognize the chapters that you created in another video editor program. You will just need to get into the Chapter section, and then Cisdem will auto recognize the chapters and display them in the chapter box.

 

h. Volume

1. In some cases, the voice of the original video is too loud or too low, if you want to adjust it, you can navigate to Volume tab, slide the volume bar as you like.

2. In addition, if you want to add “Fade In” effect at the beginning of the video or add “Fade Out” effect at the end of your video, tick the option “Fade In” or “Fade Out” and then select the duration.

 

Part 8 Update Application

We always suggest users can keep using the latest version of the program.

When you launch Cisdem Video Converter, Cisdem will auto check for updates.

Also, you can click  > Check for Updates to manually update it.