How to Get Free Studio Alternatives for Mac OS X

DVDVideoSoft Free Studio is an all-in-one multimedia software toolkit that lets you download videos and convert video/audio files to any format for popular mobile devices, edit video/ audio files and so on. Although there are rumors that a free studio for Mac edition will be developed in this year, it seems that nothing has done by its developers until now. So we have been unable to verify these rumors. Then how to download, edit and convert videos on Mac? Just turn to a great similar program instead.

And this tutorial will introduce you the great free studio software for mac alternative – Tipard Mac Video Converter Ultimate, and show you how to use it to download online video files, edit video/audio files, convert DVD/video/audio to popular formats (3D video formats included) and capture image from video.

How to Use Free Studio 5 for Mac Alternative

After downloading the installer of Free Studio for Mac alternative, install and launch this program, and then you will see the interface. Click Download button in the toolbar and paste the video link into the open window. Click the Analyze button and then select resolution/format. Click OK.

How to Use Free Studio for Mac Alternative to Convert Video/Audio to Popular Formats

After downloading video files (Also you can click the Add File button and select video/audio files you want to convert), select the output format in the Profile drop-down menu and then click Convert to start the conversion.

How to Use Edit Video/Audio Files

You can use Clip funtion to trim video clips - remove pieces at the beginning or end of the clip to make it shorter. Also you can use the Edit function to adjust the 3D effect, set the video brightness/hue/saturation/contrast, change the output volume, remove letterbox/windowbox/pillarbox, and add text/image watermark to video.

Pillarboxing: Black bars at left and right of screen
Letterboxing: Black bars at bottom and top of screen
Windowboxing: Black bars on top, bottom, left, and right of image

How to Capture a Still Image from a Video File

This Free Studio Software for Mac alternative offers "Take Screenshot" function. You can easily capture an image from a video file by clicking the Snapshot button when previewing the video file.

Pillarboxing: Black bars at left and right of screen
Letterboxing: Black bars at bottom and top of screen
Windowboxing: Black bars on top, bottom, left, and right of image