How to Convert DVD to Zune HD

It seems odd to think of playing DVD movies on your Zune HD, but that's exactly what a DVD to Zune HD converter is designed for. Usually it can help you rip and convert DVD movies to Zune HD supported format such as MP4. However, when you want to enjoy the DVD movies in full screen on your Zune HD, the DVD movies usually come with the black bars. Can the DVD to Zune converter remove the black bars on the top and bottom of the movies?

DVD Ripper in the market is just the ideal program that helps you resolve these problems. It not only can convert DVD to Zune HD video or audio format, but also boast more functions than that, such as crop the black bars from DVD movies, merge multiple clips into large one, apply special effects, add watermarks, etc.

Before we start, let's figure out video/audio formats Zune HD supports first:

Zune HD video formats:

WMV
MPEG-4 (MP4/M4V) (.mp4) Part 2 video
H.264 video
DVR-MS

Zune HD audio formats:

WMA Lossless
Advanced Audio Coding (AAC) (.mp4, .m4a, .m4b, .mov), M4A and M4B files without FairPlay DRM
MP3 (.mp3)

How to convert DVD movies to Zune without black bars?

1 Import DVD movies to the DVD to Zune ripper

Insert DVD disc into DVD-ROM drive, click "Add…" button to import DVD movie. This DVD to Zune Converter allows you to import multiple DVD files such as DVD folder, ISO file or IFO files.

2 Remove the black bars

Click "Edit" button to edit your DVD movies. Just click "Crop" button, you can set the "Zoom" as Full screen to remove the black bars, or manually scale the frame size or simply type the number in to crop the frame size.

3 Set output options – MP4 video format

Select proper output format for your Zune HD from the drop-down list of "Profile" and choose a proper output path as your destination folder for the converted movies.

You can also configure the parameters like resolution, bit rate and frame rate and so on and save them as custom profile for future use.

4 Start to convert DVD movies without black bars

Click "Start" to start the conversion from DVD to Zune HD. Before conversion, this DVD Converter allows you to preview the movie from the pop-up window. You can set the after-done action like "shut down compute"r or "open output folder".

It's done. Just click "Find Target" to quick find your converted DVD movies. And you are ready to enjoy the DVD movies on Zune HD without black bars in full screen.