It is in addressing these needs that Wondershare, a multimedia-computing powerhouse came up with Video Converter Platinum, a multi-purpose, multi-platform video format converter, which also has audio conversion capabilities. It is primarily a video format converter, that lets you convert your video files to various other formats, while maintaining their quality and integrity, to meet system requirements and playback on common players such as iPod, iPhone, Apple TV, Zune, PSP, Pocket PC, Creative Zen, Archos, among many others. Download the demo version and see if it works with your video player.

It supports all major video formats, including MP4, MOV, 3GP, AVI, WMV, RM, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, FLV and ASF. It comes with a flexible audio converter, which supports M4A, WMA, WAV, MP3, AAC and AC3 formats. Moreover, to jump the itunes hurdle in computer-to-ipod transfers, Video Converter Platinum comes with a built in ipod copy manager. For PSP users, Video Converter Platinum comes with PSP Video Manager, to facilitate transfer of video files between their computers and PSPs. Video Platinum Converter also has video cropping, trimming and merging capabilities, with rich video and audio options. It also offers solution to the age-old problem of capturing and saving specific pictures from video files.

Video Converter Platinum has modest System requirements, the minimum being Windows 2000/XP/2003 and at least Windows media player 9.

It is currently retailing at $35, and like all great technologies, it comes with a free trial. This is a timely software solution that I would recommend to everyone in multimedia computing. With the great array of integrated features it offers, I foresee it becoming an industry standard in the very near feature. I will rate this at 9.5 on the scale of 1 to 10.

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This software works at magical speeds to rip DVDs and VCDs into almost any popular format known. Unlike most encoders, it shows the real progress in its indicators. Therefore, the expected time, which you see for the ripping and encoding, is generally the required time.

Video and Audio Converter  has support for conversion into a variety of file formats like AVI, RM, MP4, MOV, WMV, and even the good old MPEG files. The software also supports Flash SWF (Shockwave files) and also FLV or Flash Video files. This makes the software as complete as possible as far as conversion of video between different file formats is concerned.

A whole range of audio formats such as MP3, AAC, WMA, RA, M4A, WAV and others are also supported. Thus, audio conversion is also simple and quick.

The software allows you to convert your media for a variety of different portable players such as the iPod, PSP, iPhone, iPod Touch, Creative Zen, iRiver and Archos. It also allows you to perform batch conversions so that many files can be encoded simultaneously. Parameters such as Frame Rate, Video Resolutions and many more can be also amended.

You must think that with all these features, Video and Audio Converter  must be quite expensive. However, quite contrary to it, this is inexpensive software for purchase and is priced at only $26, making it one of the cheapest audio and video converters around. With such a low price and so many features, this bundle packed in one will definitely get a 9.5/10 rating. 

Although it has stiff competition from other top-of-the-line products from leading brands, the Movavi VideoSuite’s various utilities and extremely simplistic usability allows it to maintain its presence. To add to that, it is available at just $59.99 on its website. The software is currently in its version 5. The name itself says a lot about what Movavi is. It allows you to convert .mov files to .avi files. Movavi offers all customers a free trial download too to make sure they like it before making the investment.

Nevertheless, the first step is capturing the video. With Movavi VideoSuite you can take files of formats .mov, .avi, mpeg (including mpeg 4), .wmf, .asf, any CD or DVD format and also mobile video formats, convert them into any other of these formats, and in addition make them compatible with Pocket PC, all mobile phones, iPods, PSPs and Zune Players.

When you check this list, you can understand that Movavi VideoSuite has it all covered when it comes to capturing and converting videos. The conversion rates are quite fast, with maximum speeds of 1.1625 MB/s for a conversion of .avi to PSP. With .mov to PSP, the obtainable speed is 0.073 MB/s. All other destination speeds (apart from PSP) are higher than this. The stellar point of this software though is its user-friendliness.

The interface is simple enough for a child to understand with large buttons that directly indicate what task they perform. All the features are present from the start screen itself, so you do not have to navigate much. The Movavi VideoSuite 5 is a complete video capturing and editing package that is certainly going to be very popular due to its essential features set and its economical prices. On our ratings meter, it gets 8 out of 10 stars.

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