The Good
* Straightforward and easy to use.
* Supports many input and output video formats.
* Does video -> video and video -> audio conversions.
o Does both SD and HD video conversions.
* Has support for electronic gadgets, such as the iPhone, the PSP, and the XBox 360.
* Allows users to do some basic video editing, such as crop, trim, add watermark (text or image), change brightness, change contrast, add an effect, and deinterlace.
o Available effects are gray, invert, gamma, sepia, embossment, flip vertically, flip horizontally, 3D grid, posterization, solarization, threshold, "video", and halftone.
* Allows users to merge videos together.
* Supports batch processing.
* Allows users to automatically shutdown the computer after conversion.

The Bad
* Cannot make full use of multi-cores.
* No NVIDIA CUDA support.
* No option to keep output video resolution the same as input.
* "Video Quality" option has no correlation to the output video resolution.
* Cannot add subtitles to videos.
* Does not support drag + drop.
* No option to add an entry in the Windows Explorer right-click context menu.
* Extremely RAM intensive.
* Has output profiles for a only a few mobile phones/smartphones.
* Many shareware "video" converters can also do audio -> audio conversions - this one cannot.

Alternatives
[Freebie] iSkysoft iMedia converter
[Freeware] FormatFactory
[Freeware] iWisoft Video Converter

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Ashraf  –  15 years ago  –  ¿Te ha parecido útil este comentario? si | no (+112)

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The program installed and registered without a problem on my laptop Win7 (x64) Home Ed. Computer. The first time I tried it, I attempted to crop the video and alter the brightness & contrast. to convert an avi. The program locked up. When I retried the same video (with the same changes), the program converted it -- with a noticeable decrease in video quality.

The crop feature is a disappointment. I was unable to pinpoint the beginning or ending with any accuracy. The *time boxes* show the start & end times, but no time box coordinates with where the actual play indicator is. Clicking on the beginning or ending crop bar causes the play indicator to immediately shift to the bar being moved, losing the place where the current play is and thus the accuracy of the crop. Attempting to begin playing at the starting crop was again in question as there is no time box for the play indicator. The crop I hoped for was several seconds off both the beginning and end.

The brightness and contrast produced noticeable changes, but the overall output quality was also noticeably less than the original. This was just the first use; I may try again later, but the initial impression isn't good.

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John38111  –  15 years ago  –  ¿Te ha parecido útil este comentario? si | no (+49)

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Boo hiss. I was hoping to like this tool, and the comments so far were encouraging, but I've installed it (which was indeed simple, thanks), and in trying to convert some FLV files to other formats, I find that each time it shows the "length" of the input files to be only about 10-15 minutes, when in fact they are all more like an 60-90 minutes. And of course the converted file is the same shortened length.

Is there something about FLVs that are a known issue? I searched the aneesoft site and found nothing to suggest that. I can open these same FLVs in any of a few players and can confirm they are indeed at least an hour long. I also (on the same computer) already run other converter tools (some obtained here from GOTD) and they do also all properly recognize the real length of the FLVs.

Someone may wonder if this problem is a time limitation in VC, but it is not. I opened some MP3 and MP4 files (converted from the same FLVs in question using other tools), and VC shows their length correctly, at over an hour.

I hope the vendor may have some thoughts, in case other GOTD users may also be interested in conversion of FLV files. It's hard to motivate us to pay for upgrades if the base version given away fails at the basics. Thanks.

Charlie  –  15 years ago  –  ¿Te ha parecido útil este comentario? si | no (+13)

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