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Cucusoft DVD to Zune Converter Tutorial

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Cucusoft DVD to Zune Converter Tutorial

Open Cucusoft DVD to Zune Converter
Put your DVD in your DVD drive
Open the DVD in Cucusoft by either
1. Use Menu --> Files --> Open DVD
2. Clicking one of the “Open DVD” buttons
Select your DVD drive in the pop-up browser window and click “OK”
The DVD will play past introductions until the DVD Menu is displayed. Sometimes the “Ready to record video” window pops-up during movie previews at the beginning of the DVD. If this happens, just click the “No” button and play through the previews until the DVD menu is displayed.
Adjusting conversion settings and saving settings as a profile
1. Click Menu --> Settings --> Output Video Settings
  
  You should see a pop-up window titled “Audio/Video Output Settings”, like this
2. Click the “New” button and type in a name for your new profile, then click “OK”
3. Video Bitrate: The optimum Video “Bitrate” to balance quality and battery life is 500, so for your first conversion, set the Video Bitrate to 500
4. Frame rate: The frame rate for NTSC (USA) is 30.
  If you have DVDs from other regions, the frame rate for your specific DVD should be displayed in the “DVD info” panel to the right of the movie preview panel.
  Set the Frame rate to match your DVD
  
  HINT: you could create a profile for each region code you work with
5. Audio Bitrate: Click on the audio bitrate value and then select “128k (CD Quality)” from the drop down menu
6. Volume: if your DVD has a quite or overly loud soundtrack, you can adjust the output volume by clicking on the volume percentage and selecting an alternative volume from the drop down menu.
  Usually leave this setting as “100%”
7. If you want to adjust the aspect ratio, click on the aspect ratio value and select a ratio from the drop down list
  Usually leave this setting as “(Auto)”
8. Close the output setting window
Optional: Sub-titles. Sub-titles are usually not selected – they come out quite small on the Zune screen. Not all DVDs have sub-titles available.
If you want sub-titles, you can turn them on by either
1. Menu --> Setting --> Select from available languages
2. Using your mouse to navigate the DVD menu the same way you would on a regular DVD player
Audio Language. Some DVDs have soundtracks available with different lanuages
You can change the default audio language by either
1. Menu --> Setting --> Audio track --> Select from available languages
2. Using your mouse to navigate the DVD menu the same way you would on a regular DVD player
Select your Output Folder. You can select the output folder by
1. Typing the full path to the folder
2. Clicking the “Output folder” button, then select the folder using the popup browser window
3. Menu --> File --> Select Output, then select the folder using the popup browser window
HINT: if you output to your “My Videos” folder, the Zune software will automatically load the movie
Start the feature playing by clicking “PLAY” on the DVD menu, or the marker beside it. The movie will start to play and the “ready to record video” window should pop-up after a few seconds. If it doesn’t and you want to start converting, just click the “Convert” button

HINT: convert from when the movie title is displayed so you see the title screen in the Zune software