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This will convert many things very fast and at good quality, sometimes best quality out of a bunch of other converters I've tried.
Now for the bad... And yes there is a lot of bad, I'm trying to be as honest as I can be - I'm no brainwashed fanboy of anything.
The UI is one of the worst I've ever encountered, it's definitely not for the novice... Dropdown lists with the + and - over on the side = not very friendly. The menus aren't too bad for generic templates but there's not much customizing you can do with them. The preview window is a joke and the timecode displayed is wrong almost all the time which leads me to my next discovery. Creating chapter points is probably the most difficult part, and I'll explain...
Any movie lover isn't going ot accept the "insert chapter at every X amount of time" because then you get chapter points in the middle of great scenes. Ok, so that means you just have to adjust them to be in the spots you want, right? Match up the mark to the frame in the video preview, right??? WRONG. Sure, it lets you do that, but what's the end result? Chapter points in the wrong places. It seems that Convertxtodvd has a problem translating the timecode of the movie - you can slide to a certain spot in the movie and note the movie time at that spot, but in reality it's wrong if you check it with a media player (I use VLC and WMP11). So, it's virtually impossible to set chapters at the exact places you want, they seem to always start 5-10 seconds ahead of where they should be. There's not even an option to IMPORT a chapter list. You can manually edit chapter points by entering the time, but again... the program is retarded at timecodes.
Ok, wow this is just unreal... While writing this comment I opened up the program and loaded a movie project that's already been converted just to recheck things. I remember the exact movie frames for the chapter points that I had set and now when I look at each one they have been moved back 10 seconds. This program just has no clue how to keep track of the timecode of movies, I've done 4 movies so far. (Try is yourself, set some chapter points, save your project, close it, reopen it and look at where the chapter points are!)
If you're looking to just encode movies at great quality really fast and have absolutely no interest in the fine details like correct chapter points or a fancy menu, then this is definitely for you. Oh yeah, and if you've got the time to fool with the insane UI. |
