AVI is an acronym for Audio Video Interleave. It is technically known as a container format and was introduced in 1992.This format was part of a larger package which was called "Video for Windows". As the name goes, the files of avi format can have both video as well as audio data within the space of a single file.
If you have some DVDs and you want to backup them to a high quality and save them on your computer, I think AVI is the best format. This because of its advantages:
1. Choice of codecs means you can achieve a high rate compression if you experiment.
2. Plays in mainstream media players such as Windows Media Player.
3. Can be used as a starting point to create playable DVDs.
After we know about AVI and its advantage, the problem we confront with is how we can rip our DVDs to AVI format. Having a conversion tool but can’t use it easily troubles many users a lot. The following part will show you how to use a DVD to AVI Converter to help you convert your DVDs to AVI format easily by using a DVD to AVI tool as an example. Now let’s get started step by step.
Step 1: Download and install DVD to AVI Converter.
You can download it here: http://www.imoviesoft.com/packages/imoviesoft-dvd-to-avi-converter.exe
Step2：Import your DVD Movies.
Click “Add” button to load your DVD movies which you would like to convert to AVI format. You can also drag the DVD movies which you want to convert into the application window.
Step 3: Set output Profile and Output Folder for your DVD movies.
This DVD to AVI Converter can not only help you convert DVD to AVI format, but also can help you convert DVDs to audio formats, such as DVD to WMA, DVD to MP3, DVD to AC3.
Step 4: Click “Start” Button to Start Conversion.
Additional Functions
Before the conversion, you can also give your videos the following further edit by clicking the “Edit” button in the main window.
1. Split your video
The "Trim" function is provided as a video splitter for you to get any time-length video episode. You can set the "Start Time" and "End Time" to set the time of the clip or you can directly drag the slide bar to the accurate position.
2. Video Joiner
By clicking “Merge into one file”, you can merge several videos in the task list into one output file.
3.crop off the black edges and adjust the size of video play region
By using the "Crop" function you can crop the black edge of your video and you can also drag the line around the video image to adjust the video play region to fit for your players.
4. Set effect of Video
You can use “Effect” function to adjust the video such as brightness, contrast and saturation
You can visit http://www.imoviesoft.com/products/dvd-to-avi-converter.html to learn more details about it.
