Converting Videos to Various Video File Formats

If you want to share a video with the online community or adapt it for viewing on an electronic gadget, you will need to convert it to the best format for this by using a video converter.

Among the many different formats, video is more common:

• Blu-ray - a new standard for optical discs, replaced the format of DVD.
• Digital Video Disk (DVD) is a standard format for optical discs, which is widely used for viewing video on a TV.
• Flash Live Video (FLV) is a very common video format on the Internet , usually used to play Adobe Flash Player.
• Moving Picture Expert Group (MPEG) is a very common format used on the Internet. The format has different versions: MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-3 and MPEG-4 (the latter).
• Moving Picture Expert Group 4 (MP4) - the same as MPEG-4.
• QuickTime is the standard format used by Apple.
• Windows Media Video (WMV) is the standard format used by the Microsoft Windows operating system.

You can share videos with your friends by placing them on online video storage sites like youtube.com. This world's largest video service recommends downloading videos in the following formats: QuickTime MOV, Windows AVI or MPG. In particular, they recommend the MPEG4 (DivX, Xvid) format with a resolution of 640x480. For up-to-date information on optimizing your video, please review the requirements on the YouTube website. Programs with which you can convert video, there are a great many, we will consider some of them.

Handbrake Video Converter Software

To create an MP4 video from a video in WAV format, for example, you can use such a free converter as Handbrake. From the official description of this software on their website follows: "Handbrake is a multi-threaded open-source video transcoder under the GPL license, multi-platform and available for Mac OS X, Linux and Windows." In my opinion, this is an excellent free video converter, which is easy to install and use.

Full Video Converter

In addition to converting video formats, Full Video Converter allows you to create, edit, cut and merge video, convert audio, has CD ripper options.

It can also convert any video to all portable media players, such as iPad, iPod, iPhone, PSP, Xbox, Zune, PS3, Andriod, AppleTV, PVP, PDA, Droid, Nexus One, Palm Pre, PS3, PSP, Archos , Creative Zen, etc. Thus, you can enjoy the video from anywhere.

It is worth mentioning that the program is paid, and a license for a year of use per computer costs about $ 35. Before you buy the program, you can evaluate its functionality by downloading its trial version.

Freemake Video Converter

Free video converter Freemake Video Converter supports more than 200 formats and allows you to convert video to popular video formats (WMV, MP4, 3GP, AVI, MPG, FLV, MKV, MOV, SWF), including for various mobile devices. With it, you can make a full-fledged slide show of images and audio files. The program shows a good speed of video conversion, thanks to the support of technology CUDA. The program has the ability to convert video to Blu-ray format, followed by writing to disk, the ability to edit video.

Umile Encoder

Free Umile Encoder video converter that supports a large number of customizable profiles for a variety of mobile devices such as Apple TV, iPod Touch, iPhone, iPad, iPod Nano, iPod Classic, PSP, Zune, BlackBerry, XBOX 360, Android smartphones, PS3, And also for the online video service Facebook and Youtube. The application supports the most popular formats: H.246, MPEG, RealVideo, WMV, MP4V, FLV, AAC, MP4, MP3, AC3, MP2 and others. You can select the desired bit rate in the settings, adjust the frame sizes, add subtitles, etc.

1 Video Converter

1 Video Converter is another convenient application for fast file conversion between video formats MPEG1, MPEG2, AVI, SVCD, WMV, DVD, ASF. Allows you to cut and merge video fragments into one file with preview, setting the beginning and end of the fragment. Also there is the possibility of batch conversion, extraction of audio from video to WMA, WAV and MP3 formats. The program has the DVD grabber option (DAT and VOB), it can extract audio from DVD (DAT and VOB) to WMA, WAV, MP3, there is a setting of codecs and conversion parameters. In general, the program has a convenient and simple interface, high speed and quality of video conversion.