Video is part of our daily life, and it is enriching our daily life. Video files on your hard drive or portable players can be a annoyance when then cannot playback because the video format is not supplied by your player. You need to convert the video you have filed on your PC or portable player to the format that is supported.
As long as you are interested in audio-visual experience, video converter is no longer a big word for you. The thing that can be defined as big is how to choose one that fits you most.
First, you need to have a clear idea what kind of video you are having and what kind of video you want to convert it to, meaning you need to know the source video format and target video format. Keeping this mind, you will know whether you need an all in one video converter with multiple input file types and multiple output video formats, or you just need a simple MOV to AVI Converter, WMV to WMV Converter, iPod Video converter and things like that. If you are a video professional, you’d better choose a video converter with multiple input and output file types. If you have iPod or Apple TV, you might as well choose a video to iPod converter, or iPod video converter, it is cheaper, and it is special just for your requirement.
Second, you need to check the quality of exported video. You don’t want to input video of high quality, only to find that video is totally distorted after conversion, would you? I don’t expect so either. At the same time, I suggest you to check the profile options they have, generally speaking, the more the better. If it is possible, choose video converter that allows you to do customization, or at least enables to set the merit of the profile parameter. In this way, you are able to control the size, the specific quality, and codecs. This is important, it is recommended to choose the right codec, or you just cannot playback the exported video.
Third, check the conversion speed. I bet you don’t want to spend hour over hours just for a movie conversion. And choose video converter with the feature of batch mode. Batch mode allows you convert several videos at once. There are some video converters that realizes converting different videos to different formats, this is amazing and save quite a lot efforts.
Fourth check the usability of the video converter. And choose the video converter that allows you finish the converting within no more than five steps of action; the customization is not included, since this is not a necessary process. Remember that a video converter with user-friendly interface and detailed instructions on how to use it is what I prefer to try.
Fifth The last but not the least, choose one that has trial version as well as quality after service. Actually, no company wants after service, they want their products to be perfect and everyone enjoys it to the fullest. This is just a little bit of daydreaming. Even the video converting software is flawless, there are some problems caused by reasons other than the software itself, for example, people may have problems of cannot playback the video just because they don’t have the correct codec package. If the developers provide good after service, you can get your problems resolved in the earliest time. No need to waste time and go crazy and to wait when you are dying to watch your desired video.

2009 - 03-05