Movavi Video Converter

Movavi Video Converter is a simple yet powerful video converter. Convert video, rip unprotected DVD, save for iPod, iPhone, Apple TV, PSP, PDA, Zune or a cell-phone, join multiple video files into one, extract stills and sound from your video files.

Pros: With Movavi Video Converter, you can easily convert between almost all popular video formats, save your video for all popular mobile devices; join multiple video files, rip your DVDs, edit video - crop, rotate, add watermark, adjust quality. You can save best still images from your video and extract soundtracks from videos and DVDs.

A very wide range of video formats are supported. Inputs are accepted in any of the formats AVI (DivX, XviD, etc.), DV AVI, MP4 (Sony PSP, Apple TV, iPod, iPhone, etc), WMV (including Zune), ASF, 3GP, 3GP2, 3GPP, 3GPP2, QuickTime (MOV, QT), DVD, VOB, IFO, VIDEO_TS, AUDIO_TS, MPG, MPEG 1,2,4, VRO, MOD, DAT, MJPEG, VCD, SVCD, H.263 and DVR-MS. Outputs produced also can be in any of the formats MP4 (Sony PSP, Apple TV, iPod, iPhone, etc), WMV (including Zune), 3GP, 3GP2, 3GPP, 3GPP2, QuickTime (MOV, QT), MPG, MPEG 1,2,4, H.263, H.264 and Real Media (RM, RMVB). Audio from videos can be extracted into MP3, WAV or WMA and stills captured can be in JPEG, PNG, BMP or GIF formats.

With such wide set of supports there are a range of possible uses for this application. Save a video clip or DVD content for viewing in iPod, iPhone, PSP, Zune, PDA/Pocket PC (including Blackberry or any cell-phones. Rip your DVD collections, save unprotected DVDs to any video format. Choose your preferred language and subtitles, extract soundtracks or upload to your mobile device. Convert any video file segment. Select the desired file segment by moving the markers on any open video or DVD file to convert that segment to any format. Crop, rotate, add watermark and adjust the quality of your video with the editing tools. Create a gallery of pictures from any video automatically by number of frames or time.

Couple of interesting things are, using the presets for creating videos for easy e-mailing, streaming or for use on a blog site. The other interesting thing about this application is that it can take advantage of multiple processors, so if one of those multi core processor in your system it can make the conversion really fast.

Cons: No negative aspects noticed.

Overall a definite 5 star application.

A speed demon among media converters, Movavi Video Converter is an indispensable addition to your software library. Convert video, audio, and image files to more than 200 media formats, or for 200+ mobile devices, at an unbeatable speed. Trim or join your files and modify them with basic editing tools in mere seconds. And now let's have a closer look at Movavi Video Converter! The first intriguing feature of this software is the revolutionary SuperSpeed technology that enables you to convert video files as quickly as if you'd simply copied them from one folder to another. Another time-saving option is the smart output presets. Add your files to the program, select the output format or mobile preset, and the program will automatically adjust the video settings to preserve optimum quality for the output video. Manual adjustment is also available, and with the simple intuitive settings panel, it will take only a little time to select the right codec, change the bitrate, or set other parameters for your video. To ensure that you've tuned the settings correctly, you can preview the resulting video before converting it. Video conversion is not the only function in this software: you can also enhance the quality of your video with brightness, contrast, hue, and saturation adjustment tools. Or you can rotate your video, or change the resolution or aspect ratio without stretching or distorting the image. You can also turn your lower-resolution videos into HD files using Upscale SD/DVD to HD presets, add captions and logos, and create a short GIF animation out of any part of your movie. All of this is easy if you have Movavi Video Converter installed on your computer! Trim your files with the handy markers, join an unlimited number of clips into one big movie. Add subtitles, make videos with multi-channel sound, and much, much more... And you can be sure that the clear intuitive interface in the program will never make you feel daunted by such a breadth of functionality!