Need a good video converter

HANIA14

Joined: 2007-04-01
Posts: 2
Posted: Sun, 2007-04-01 09:17

Hello,

I need a good software product that can convert video, between the most popular formats. I searched on Google and found an overwelming offer, some free and some paid; but I am interested in your personal suggestions, something that you use and are satisfied with!

 
floridave
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Joined: 2003-12-22
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Posted: Sun, 2007-04-01 17:41

Since the new Flash player in G2.2 I converted my movies to flash video with:
http://www.rivavx.de/index.php?encoder&L=3
(free)

Dave
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ichthyous

Joined: 2006-06-16
Posts: 324
Posted: Sun, 2007-04-01 20:09

Flash video is one option which is becoming more and more popular. Most serious video encoding/production studios use hardware encoders. As desktop computers have become so much more poerful now you can use programs like Canopus Procoder, Media Cleaner Pro, etc. Final cut pro has an excellent encoding app built in. Windows Media Encoder is free and encodes from certain video sources into WMV files.

Andrew

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HANIA14

Joined: 2007-04-01
Posts: 2
Posted: Mon, 2007-04-02 16:04

It sounds like an excelent product, and I found Amic Video Converter http://www.amicutilities.com/video-converter/ which has excelent compression and a very easy to use interface. I will still check a few other before I decide which one I will use on the long term! Thank you!

 
suprsidr
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Posted: Mon, 2007-04-02 20:30

Just wanted to throw MediaCoder into the mix.
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Feldon

Joined: 2007-01-15
Posts: 16
Posted: Thu, 2007-04-05 20:54

There's also the freeware Super. http://www.erightsoft.net/SUPER.html

It has a crappy website, but it converts pretty much anything including flash.

 
ichthyous

Joined: 2006-06-16
Posts: 324
Posted: Thu, 2007-06-28 20:57

If you are looking for freeware you might want to try Macromedia's Flash support pages...they often have links to other useful sites
---Andrew
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