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Ashampoo Movie Shrink & Burn 2.21

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Price: Free to try (30-day trial); $49.99 to buy (Buy it now)
Operating system: Windows XP, Windows 2000
Date added: August 07, 2007
Total Downloads: 582,605
Downloads last week: 1,762
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From Ashampoo :

You have a movie on your hard drive and want to send a copy to a friend or relative, but it won't fit on a CD. Ashampoo Movie Shrink & Burn 2 is an easy solution to this problem. It's ideal for movies you want to watch with your DVD player or your PDA/handheld PC. You can convert and compress your existing movie files into a selection of formats that can be played on PDAs and handhelds. Formats for home DVD players also are available. Burn your movie files to CD (VideoCDs, Super VideoCDs, DivX/XviD CDs, normal CDs). Let the program automatically split your movies onto multiple CDs if they're too big. The program supports XviD/DivX AVIs, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, QuickTime, WMV, VideoCDs, Super VideoCDs, and DivX/XviD CDs. It can convert or shrink unencrypted VOB files into smaller, high-quality formats.

Version 2.21 changes: improved Update Engine; Minor Bugfixes; 15 languages: German, English (US), English (UK), Arabic, Czech, Spanish, French, Hungarian, Italian, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Slovenian, Swedish.

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3 out of 18 people found this review helpful

Version: Ashampoo Movie Shrink & Burn 2.21

"Never was very effective."

by Chainmail2006 on August 22, 2007

Pros: Like all "Ashampoo" software, it has a nice GUI but I did not find it that easy to use, nor very effective at what it was designed for. IThe first thing it does is recommend you install "DIVX". It fails miserably at shrinking video movie files enough to fit on a standard DVD. The coding and decoding of downloaded movies isn't very good and just when you think it did the trick, you may find errors with the text on your DVD. At $49.99 it's over priced and there are much more effective applications available. "Ashampoo" blew this one, big time. This is one application thats been left in the dust and it's not compatible with "Vista".

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2 out of 6 people found this review helpful

Version: Ashampoo Movie Shrink & Burn 2.21

"video playback text is backward and upside down! ???"

by Cindyb733 on August 12, 2007

Pros: the software worked great, until I played back the compressed files. The video was clear and the directions are very straighforward. In other words, you can't screw it up... but, unless I have mirror handy and have people stand on their head and watch, its pretty unfunctional. I downloaded it on the trial because it promised fully functioning software. Very irritating after waiting for the files to compress. I don't like my time wasted. If they fix the bug, it might be worth it.

Cons: I wonder if the company did this on purpose for the free trial so that you'd have to buy the software? Umm...didn't work,(but if it had done what it promised I probably would have purchased it. At this point, all it got them was a bad review for a new product. Has anyone else had this problem?

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Version: Ashampoo Movie Shrink & Burn 2.21

"Doesn't work well at all."

by aiyahhh on September 25, 2007

Cons: Over-rated. No response from tech support. No indication of any errors on a burned movie, but when I tried to play it, it wasn't recognized by the player or the PC. Very frustrating

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