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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I shoot on a Canon t3i. Like you said, the footage is amazing, I have Sony Vegas 11, but my computer just lacks to horse power to crunch the huge files the canon outputs. Most of the videos don’t require high-quality resolution.
I have a very nice computer with lots of horsepower so the computer was not really the issue for me. I recently bought a great camera – a Panasonic GH1 that shoots in HD. In my last job I had to shoot video related to a murder trial I was working on. I had a tight deadline since court was scheduled in about 5 days. Well, it turns out that Panasonic has a propitiatory file format and Windows Media player will not play it. I’m sorry I don’t recall the format at the moment but the majority of the file conversion programs will NOT process it. I really had a simple task – to take the video out of my camera and to put it on a disk that a courtroom computer could play. I literary spent 4 days and nights trying to convert the format into a playable form. Needless to say I was pulling my hair out. The last program I used was DVD Flick which was actually freeware. It took 6 hours to render – I went to bed in the meantime thinking that there was no way this program would do the job. To my surprise , when I woke up it was playing on my computer. On top of that, other programs said I needed to use 4-5 disks to render the final product. This program put all this information on one disk and the quality was quite good – simply unbelievable, and it would also play on my DVD player – ha, not bad but it did take 6 hours and I could not find any other program that would do a disk copy. So in order for me to make a second copy I had to go through the same process and spend another 6 hours converting the video again. So that’s my story. I would love to give Win X HD Video Recorder a try.
Hey, I would like a copy of this software, as I have a lot of converter software (sorenson, episode,..) I don’t really need the software but I could help one of my friends. I always suggest they would download some free converters but often they don’t do the trick like it should be done. And good video converter software can be quite costly.,
So if you have another copy available, I would like to have it to give it away as a present.