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This combination video-conversion and creation tool boasts good speed and a nice set of features. CinemaForge's polished interface is both handsome and rather simple to understand.
As a video converter, the application supports all expected formats, including SWF, WMV, AVI, and MOV. You also can choose to accompany any video with audio files of your choice rather than the original sound. When you click the digital-camera icon next to the File Input box, you'll be able to browse your computer for still images to compile a video file. If you choose to perform this action, you can apply a few transition effects, determine the image interval, and add your own music files.
Although CinemaForge was quick to generate a slide-show video, the audio came out sounding much muddier than the original file did, even when we upped the bit rate. Elsewhere, the program lets you tweak certain aspects of your new video, including frame rate and quality. You also can choose to crop videos, apply a deinterlacing filter, and upload videos to the Web (if you have a CinemaForge account).
We should note the program can't be uninstalled by traditional means; instead, you have to click the question-mark icon on the main interface. In spite of the aforementioned quirks, CinemaForge is overall a solid piece of software.
Publisher's Description
From StageGold:
CinemaForge is a video- and audio-conversion and hosting utility. The application supports Flash (SWF), Flash (FLV), Motion Pictures Group (MPEG), Audio Video Interleaved (AVI), Window Media Video (WMV), Real Video (RM), QuickTime (MOV), Advanced Streaming Format (ASF), and JPEG (thumbnails). You quickly can save and load presets. It has a nice ffmpeg GUI written in MediaForge. The application has support for deinterlace, duration, cropping, automatic thumbnails, and MediaForge Plaza publishing. You can build movies from still images, and it includes advanced alpha-channel transitions between slides.
Version 2.0.5 fixes a problem with Audio/Video synchronization. Enables Video Uploading.
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All versions:
3.3 starsout of 230 votes
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Current version:
3.5 starsout of 20 votes
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"cant download it dosent download properly"
Version: CinemaForge 2.0.5
Pros
i coundnt like anything because ic ant DOWNLOAD IT!!!!!!
Cons
i dont because i caNT DOWNLOAD IT !!!!!!!!!!
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"excellent"
Version: CinemaForge 2.0.5
Pros
watch the videos because remember is live
Cons
only personal use
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"really good and free, if you want to download from youtube and to convert!!!!!!!"
Version: CinemaForge 2.0.5
Pros
everything, it's easy and free and very fast
you can convert to much stuff (avi,...) and really good if you want to convert flv
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"Converted files do not load with Premiere"
Version: CinemaForge 2.0.5
Pros
Easy to set up, fast conversion. The output MPEG and WMV files play well.
Cons
FLV to AVI: I got the sound only, no image.
FLV to MPEG: plays fine on WinMP but Premiere (Elements 3.0) gets the image only, no soundtrack.
FLV to WMV: Plays fine on WinMP but Premiere hangs when trying to open it. As in Ctrl-Alt-Del hang.
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"Better options elsewhere"
Version: CinemaForge 2.0.5
Cons
There are two issues I take with this product:
- Even when the settings have been meticulously set, the end video does not always turn out well. Even when I set the "frame size" to "same", it takes my 320x240 input video and turns it into a 320x320 video. No good!
- By far the largest issue is the non-standard GUI. Operating Systems have GUI standards for a reason! (E.G. how do I know that that checkbox is actually checked? Maybe that's what it looks like when it's unchecked..) First, an installation program with no "cancel" button is a very bad sign. Secondly, many of the buttons do not look like buttons, or are hidden (it took me forever to find where I can change the output format!). To top it all off, having an animation of a stick-figure pouting as a progress bar is not my idea of professionalism. I was looking for an inexpensive alternative to Sorenson Squeeze... preferably something that could convert FLV, WMV, and Realplayer files to MPEG4, but I didn't find a good replacement here.
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"123"
Version: CinemaForge 2.0.5
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"good"
Version: CinemaForge 2.0.5
Pros
it has ok fasting speed covert my flv file to avi
Cons
wmv or rm won't work right and when converting avis i hear this noise
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"well..."
Version: CinemaForge 2.0.5
Pros
It turned out to be one of the fastest and easiest installs I've ever used.
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"good but not the best"
Version: CinemaForge 2.0.5
Pros
good but not the best
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"This product is the best I have found"
Version: CinemaForge 2.0.5
Pros
This product is the best I have found quick to convert from basically any video format to any video format
Cons
If you haven't done video converting before it take a little bit to get into the higyher functions
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