This document will show you how to trim, crop, convert video to PSP video formats at length, you can refer to it step by step and take the conversion an easy trip.
It includes two parts:

• How to convert video to PSP?
•  How to trim, crop, join and edit video for PSP?
  
  

The video formats Aimersoft PSP Video Converter supports are as follows:
AVI, MPEG, WMV, MOV, MP4, RM, RMVB, DivX, ASF, FLV, 3GP

The audio formats supported by Aimersoft PSP Video Converter are:
MP3, WMA

Part 1: How to convert video to PSP?
Step1. Please download Aimersoft PSP Video Converter; you can free download it from here.
http://www.aimersoft.com/psp-video-converter.html

Step2. Install and run Aimersoft PSP Video Converter, click the “Add” button to import your videos. Aimersoft PSP Video Converter supports batch conversion, so you can import multiple files at a time. If you experience any problems adding videos by directly clicking the “Add” button, you can click “File -> Add DirectShow files…” to add the video files you want to convert from your computer.

Step3. Then Click the “Format” drop-down list to select the format you prefer for each added file. If you don’t know what formats your device supports, you can just select the format according to the device name.

If you want to customize the output quality, click the “Settings” button to open the Settings panel, where you customize resolution, frame rate, video bit rate, audio bit rate, sample, etc. You also can create a settings profile and save it, and then you won’t have to do the same settings every time. Since Aimersoft PSP Video Converter supports batch conversion, you can use different profiles for each added video files to save your time. If you don’t want to do these settings, the default settings will just work perfectly.

After all things done, click “Start” to start conversion.

Part 2: How to trim, crop, join and edit video for PSP?
Step1.If you want to cut the edges off your video, you can click the “Crop” button to open the crop panel. There is a frame in dashed line around the movie video; you can drag it to cut off the sides you don’t want. You can also type in values in the four Crop value boxes to crop your video more accurately.

Step2.PSP Video Converter allows you to trim your each video file so you can capture your favorite clips from your video files. After you click “trim” button, you can Preview your the selected video file in the Preview window and estimate what part of the movie you want to convert. Then enter the start time and the end time to the time box in the left side or drag the start/end time bar below the Preview window to set the clips you want to convert, then click “OK’ to start the conversion.

Step3. If you want to join several video files into one file, on the main interface, tick the check box “Merge into one file”, and you will only get one output file instead of multiple files.

This PSP video converter provides rich video editing functions, you can click the “Effect” button and customize the brightness, saturation, contrast; volume, etc on the Effect panel. You can even apply special effects such as “Emboss”, “Negative”, “Old film” and “Gray” by selecting a special effect from its drop-down list. If you want to remove the original audio, you can convert your video with 0% volume.

Tips
Here are some tips which may help you to solve problems resulted from the conversion process and make your conversion more perfect.

1. An Easy way to transfer the converted video to PSP
If you want to convert video to PSP, this software has a free PSP video Manager, Just connect your PSP to computer, click “Tools” -> “PSP video Manager”, then you will see a pop-up window, locate the folder where the converted files are save to show the files in the left pane (the right pane is the file list on your PSP), select the files you want to sync, and click the “right arrow” button to transfer them to your PSP. You also can copy files from PSP to computer to backup your PSP files in case your computer crashes.

2. How to convert free limewire music and videos to PSP?
Aimersoft PSP Video Converter fully supports video or music downloaded from Limewire. For the detailed information, you can refer to this guide:
http://www.aimersoft.com/tutorial/limewire-to-ipod.html

After you download video from limewire, just load it into Aimersoft PSP Video Converter and convert it to MP4.

If you use iTunes to convert limewire video, the output video may have no sound, because iTunes cannot convert muxed video (muxed videos are video files whose audio and video are on the same track, and QuickTime or iTunes cannot properly process this kind of videos). You can learn more info about muxed video by visiting: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=302588
If you have problems converting muxed videos, you can try Aimersoft PSP Video Converter, and it very well supports muxed videos.

3. How to download free YouTube video to PSP?
Video files downloaded from YouTube are stream videos (flv). You have to convert them to MP4 video to transfer them to your PSP. If you don’t know how to download YouTube videos to your computer, you can refer to this guide:
http://www.aimersoft.com/tutorial/free-download-youtube-video.html
After you download YouTube videos to your computer, convert them with Aimersoft PSP Video Converter and use iTunes to transfer the converted videos to PSP. You can also choose to transfer the PSP files using the built-in transfer tools of Aimersoft PSP Video Converter.