| User review:
|
I started using TFM a few months ago at version 1.4 and I had been using DIKO Gold. I can't believe I paid for DIKO Gold when TFM does exactly the same thing and even does a better job at most (minus menu creation, which is too basic in TFM). I've yet to have a bad conversion when the source was good since using TFM.
The only gripes I have about this latest version is that it appears to take a little longer when encoding (using CCE 2.70). I have typically always used 3 total passes, yet since 1.5.0.10 it seems to take as long as 4 passes took in the previous versions. The quality looks the same, however, so maybe there have been some quality adjustments made to cause the offset. I also couldn't get it to work properly with Canopus Procoder using the previous beta version. Every second of the video had a slight pause. I've yet to try it with this new version, but hopefully I won't be able to reproduce that error. The DVD menu creation for TFM is also pretty weak. Still isn't enough to cause me to use something else though.
TFM is simple to use - just a few clicks and you're basically done. It converts nearly everything I've thrown at it and it's free (unless you pay for CCE or Canopus)! HCEnc has also been added to provide another free encoder.
I gave it an overall 9 mainly because of the menu creation weakness. Everything else is great! |
