If you’re like many new Zune owners, you are excited about the idea of carrying your movie collection along with you wherever you go. The idea of being able to watch a movie while you’re sitting in the waiting room, riding on a bus or just hanging around the house is pretty sweet.

The problem is that it’s not so easy to transfer your existing movie collection over to your Zune when you first get it. Microsoft didn’t include any software with the Zune to rip your movies onto your Zune. If you want to watch something on your Zune when you first get it, you better either have a mpeg-4 file on your computer (some video cameras and camera phones will save videos in this format) or you will need to download a video from the Zune Marketplace (good luck!) or some other Zune Video website. Not exactly what you had in mind when you bought your new Video Zune, huh?

Don’t worry; there are many solutions out there to assist you with transferring your existing movie collection to your Zune Video player.

In this article, we’re going to discuss different software products out there available to help you convert your existing movies to play on your Zune. Companies such as Cucusoft, Wondershare and Avex DVD produce a few of the more popular Zune Video converter software titles.

To accomplish your task of converting your videos and DVD’s to play on your Zune, you’ll need to first download software from one of the companies we mentioned in the previous paragraph. For our example here, we’re going to go with Cucusoft’s Zune Video Converter Suite. Here are the steps we took to convert a movie to Zune format in about three minutes:

1. We opened up Cucusoft Zune Video Converter Suite on our computer and chose the video file we wanted to convert from our computer. 2. We clicked the “convert” button. 3. We saved the new file, which is in the Zune Video format called mpeg-4. 4. We uploaded our new video file to our Zune player.

We’re Finished! It was really that simple. Of course, this process differs slightly depending on the software title you choose to download. Some take a bit longer than others. Most, however, only take a few minutes to choose the video file you intend to convert and then run the program. Once you’re finished, you’ll be able to take your DVD and movie collection along with you practically anywhere you want to go!