The Creative ZEN is a range of digital audio players and portable media players made by Creative Technology. One of its products is Creative Zen Vision:M. Creative Zen Vision:M is adapted from the earlier released Creative Zen Vision. Creative Zen Vision:M is available in 30GB and 60GB and both types are avaiable in five colors: black, white, green, blue and pink. Creative Zen Vision:M has an incredible screen and a simple interface, has an FM tuner and recorder, it supports a wide range of online music stores and subscription services, as well as video formats. Creative Zen Vision:M supports viewing JPEG, BMP, GIF and TIFF photos. Creative Zen Vision:M can play audio files like MP3, WMA, DRM protected WMA, WAV, ADPCM and Audible. Creative Zen Vision:M also support video playback, the supportable formats are WMV9, MPEG-1, DivX 4, MPEG-4, MPEG-2, XviD5, MPEG, DivX 5.
For more details of specifications of Creative Zen Vision:M, please visit creative Zen's official website.
Now let's have a look at how to convert video files for Creative Zen Vision:M. Though the bundled video converter can aslo convert video files, but it's now powerful enough. The process can be painfully slow for videos that require conversion. If you want to find an easy and efficient way, Any Video Converter Professional will be the best choice for you. Any Video Converter Professional is an All-in-One video converting tool with easy-to-use graphical interface, fast converting speed and excellent video quality. It's exactly what you need. Any Video Converter Professional can convert all kinds of video files to MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, WMV or AVI format which is compatible with Creative Zen Vision:M. It works as a creative zen video converter perfectly.
First step, download Any Video Converter Professional from Any Video Converter website and install it. Trial version can convert 3 minutes of each file and there is no other limitation.
Launch Any Video Converter Professional. Click Add Video button to add the video files you want to convert for Creative Zen Vision:M. Any Video Converter Pro also supports converting online videos like YouTube, Google Video, MetaCafe and Japanese Nico Video to other video formats directly. What you need to do is just to paste the URL of your favourite online video to the program. Meanwhile, Any Video Converter Professional also downloads the video to local hard disk for your further usage.
Second step, find and unfold Creative Zen group and set Creative Zen Vision M Movie (*.avi) as output format. The pre-defined output is best output for Creative Zen Vision:M. And MPEG-1 movie and MPEG-2 movie output formats are also available in Any Video Converter Professional, you can find them in the Common Used Video formats. No matter what video format you have, you can easily have fun with your Creative Zen Vision:M!
Third step, click Encode button to start converting. After encoding is finished, click Output Folder buttons in the left bottom and you can find the output files.
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You may also need to rip DVD for Creative Zen Vision:M. With Any DVD Converter Pro, you can easily rip DVD to WMV ,AVI or MPG video formats compatible with your Creative Zen Vision:M. Any DVD Converter Pro works perfectly as it's Any Video Converter Pro plus a DVD ripper. Download Any DVD Converter Pro to have a try!
Before ripping DVD, unfold DVD Options in the right settings panel, set Audio Language to the one you would like the movie's sound to play in. You can also set subtitile language and angle. If you don't like the DVD to be separated as titles, click Edit >> Options >> DVD and check. For some copy-protected DVDs, you can try DVDSmith Movie Backup which is a free program that can help you copy entire DVD to hard disk, or Any DVD Cloner, which helps you to make perfect copies of your DVD collection.
After the video files or DVD are converted to Creative Zen Vision:M compatible video files, you need to transfer them to the player. If you have a Sync Adapter for Creative Zen Vision:M, transferring files including video clips is very simple.
You can also use Creative Media Explorer for Zen Vision:M, which allows you to manage your player easily in the familiar "Windows Explorer" environment, to transfer the video files. You can install it from the install CD or download it from Creative Zen's official website.
You can also use Creative Sync manager, which is part of Creative MediaSource and Creative Media Explorer to transfer and manage video clips, audio tracks, or pictures. Follow the instructions below to transfer. Connect your Creative Zen Vision:M to your PC first. Open Creative MediaSource. If it is not already in Organizer (full) view, click on the Player/Organizer View button to change it to Organizer view, Highlight and click on Creative ZEN Vision:M listing in the Sources window. Click on Sync Manager at the menu bar to start it. On the next screen, select the synchronization source, direction and target. Follow the directions on the screen to complete the synchronization process. When the transfer is complete, wait for approximately 10 seconds before disconnecting your player from your PC.
After the video files are successfully transferred to Creative Zen Vision:M, you can enjoy the videos as you like.
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