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Designed and manufactured by Creative Technology, the new player of Creative family Creative Zen sounds fantastic and features a brilliant color screen capable of displaying photos and video. So enjoy music and movies with it proves to be wonderful. Then in this guide, I will give you useful information of how to make the best videos and songs in your Creative Zen to let you enjoy this wonderful experience anytime and anywhere.
To make your video and songs perfect, first you need to know what kinds of videos can get the best effect in your player. So I will give you some information about Creative Zen video firstly. Then I will tell you how to do it.
Part 1: what formats does Creative Zen support, how to make the best settings?
Part 2: how to make best video and songs from DVD?
Part 3: how to get perfect video and songs from all kinds of videos?

Part 1: what formats does Creative Zen support, how to make the best settings for your Creative Zen?
The video formats for Creative Zen: MJPEG, WMV, and AVI (MPEG-4 SP, DivX, Xvid), while MPEG-1, and MPEG-2 are supported, but must be transcoded with the included software.
The audio formats for Creative Zen: MP3, AAC, WMA, WAV, and Audible 2, 3, and 4 formats.
The best settings: video resolution: 320×240, video Bitrate: 500 kbps. Audio Bitrate: between 96 to 128 kbps.

Part 2: how to make best video and songs from DVD?
To get videos and songs form DVD, I recommend you powerful software –Nidesoft DVD to Crteative Zen Converter. I recommend this converter as this converter can not only convert DVD to Creative Zen player in high quality at fast speed, but also it has full functions that enable your set your videos to be perfect and best.
Then I will tell you how to use it step by step.
Download the converter, installs it.
Step 1: Insert the DVD disc into the DVD Drive. Click the Open DVD button, browse your computer, find the DVD folder of the movie, open it and select titles and chapters you want to convert. Also you may preview it in the right window.

Step 2: Click the “profile” button and select the format for your Creative Zen. You just need to select “Creative Zen Player Video (*.avi)”
Step 3: set your videos to be best.
Click the “settings” button, you may set your video resolution and bitrate with the parameter I mentioned above.
You may also edit your videos with the crop, effect and trim functions.
Step 4: click the convert button, the conversion will be completed in a short time.
Tips: Rip official DVD movie is illegal, so make sure you are authorized before you rip them.

Part 3: how to get perfect video and songs from all kinds of videos?
To get perfect videos and songs into your Creative Zen player, I will recommend you another wonderful converter–Nidesoft video converter.This converter can convert all kinds of video into Creative Zen, it also enables you make settings while conversion.
Download the converter, installs it.
Then do it in this way:
Step 1: Click “add” button to import your videos from your computer. Select the video files you want to convert. Also you may preview your video in the right window.

Step 2: click the “format” drop-down list and select the “Creative Zen Player Video (*.avi)” format for your player. But if you want to get audio files from the video you may select the “MP3 – MPEG Layer-3 Audio (*.mp3)” format for your Creative Zen music.
Step 3: under the preview window, you may set your videos by few clicks. Here you may set your video size, crop mode, video quality and audio quality to make your best video for Creative Zen.
Step 3: click the “convert” button and start the conversion. The conversion will be completed in few minutes.

Ok, now just enjoy movies and music with your Creative Zen player. Need more information? Just post here, let’s fix it out together. ^_^