If you’re like many new Zune owners, you are excited about
the idea of carrying your movie collection along with you wherever
you go. The idea of being able to watch a movie while you’re
sitting in the waiting room, riding on a bus or just hanging
around the house is pretty sweet.
The problem is that it’s not so easy to transfer your
existing movie collection over to your Zune when you first get it.
Microsoft didn’t include any software with the Zune to rip your
movies onto your Zune. If you want to watch something on your Zune
when you first get it, you better either have a mpeg-4 file on
your computer (some video cameras and camera phones will save
videos in this format) or you will need to download a video from
the Zune Marketplace (good luck!) or some other Zune Video
website. Not exactly what you had in mind when you bought your new
Video Zune, huh?
Don’t worry; there are many solutions out there to assist you
with transferring your existing movie collection to your Zune
Video player.
In this article, we’re going to discuss different software
products out there available to help you convert your existing
movies to play on your Zune. Companies such as Cucusoft,
Wondershare and Avex DVD produce a few of the more popular Zune
Video converter software titles.
To accomplish your task of converting your videos and DVD’s
to play on your Zune, you’ll need to first download software
from one of the companies we mentioned in the previous paragraph.
For our example here, we’re going to go with Cucusoft’s
Zune Video Converter Suite. Here are the steps we took to
convert a movie to Zune format in about three minutes:
1. We opened up Cucusoft Zune Video Converter Suite on our
computer and chose the video file we wanted to convert from our
computer. 2. We clicked the “convert” button. 3. We saved the
new file, which is in the Zune Video format called mpeg-4. 4. We
uploaded our new video file to our Zune player.
We’re Finished! It was really that simple. Of course, this
process differs slightly depending on the software title you
choose to download. Some take a bit longer than others. Most,
however, only take a few minutes to choose the video file you
intend to convert and then run the program. Once you’re
finished, you’ll be able to take your DVD and movie collection
along with you practically anywhere you want to go!