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HD Video Converter
A frustrating experience came my way a few months ago, when I was presented with footage from a Canon 5DII and a Canon 3Ti. This was a wedding shoot, and would be combined with footage from my Sony NX5U. The footage from the Canon looked amazing, but there was a problem. My editing software (Vegas Pro 9) would import the footage, but it would then promptly hang or crash. I tried several transcoding and conversion applications, including Cineform. The results ranged from audio that was out of sync, altered gamma, enormous files, and so on.
Then I ran across WinX HD Video Converter. The software accepted the footage from the Canons, and offered a wide range of output formats. The interface is intuitive, and there are a number of preset output options, each with it’s own preset bitrate and resolution settings and so on. You can of course opt to override the settings as desired. Several HD specific presets offer AVI, MP4, MOV and even a Youtube friendly HD preset. Conversions may be done in batch by adding multiple files.
Conversion speed with HD Video Converter was surprisingly quick, depending on the output format. Even at some of the highest quality presets with the “high quality engine” option ticked on, the conversion rate approached realtime on the Intel quadcore test machine. At lower resolutions, such as with the preset for “cell phone” it was actually faster than realtime. Botom line here was it turned a disaster into a successful editing session, and saved the project.
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