Cisdem Video Converter for Windows User Guide

Cisdem Video Converter is a complete video toolbox. It can convert videos, rip DVDs, 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.

 

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 Convet tab, and then you can import videos by dragging or dropping or clicking > Add Files at the rigth upper corner of the main interface.

You can also remove the added videos by dragging the target video out of the main interface or selecting the target videos and pressing "Delete" 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 the desired format. If you want to convert multiple videos to the same format, you can directly click "Convert all tasks to" to select your desired format.

You can also do advanced settings of the output file by clicking  after the output format.

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 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 > Add DVD Folder to add the DVD into the program.

 

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: 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.

 

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 Editor

Besides converting videos, with Cisdem Video Converter, you can also edit the videos when you need. Click  at the right upper corner of the video, it will bring you to the edit window, you can trim, crop, rotate, watermark, effects, volume on the video.

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  

 

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. 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:

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

2. The Subtitle feature is not available while converting DVDs. 

 

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. 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 6 Video Downloader

Cisdem supports downloading videos and musics from 1000+ video-sharing sites, including YouTube, Facebook, VEVO, Vimeo, Dailymoon, etc.

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

Step 2 Paste the link/URL into the address box, press Enter on your keyboard or click  after the address box, Cisdem Video Converter will start obtain the video information and display in 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 File > Input URLs, 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.

 

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 to through "Save to" to save the downloaded videos and click  to start the downloading. You can also directly click  after the video 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 7 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.