CNET Editors' review
An integrated media viewer differentiates Videomaster from some of its video-conversion rivals. The installation takes some time. After loading an AVI, MPEG, or Flash video file, you select the format into which you want to convert it, whether it's AVI, Flash, or an animated GIF. Before starting the conversion, you can view the file through the program. Minimal editing functions let you grab and convert a scene from a longer clip. You select the location for the converted output, and pick from among 10 audio and video encoders. If you abort the conversion, the program makes an output file anyway. The conversion doesn't take much time, although the output file quality can be somewhat diminished. The program doesn't perform batch conversion, so professionals likely will need to look elsewhere. However, amateurs with a taste for Web video may find that Videomaster fits their needs.
Publisher's Description
From Lencom Software:
Videomaster is a joiner, splitter, and converter for movie files or fragments of any type including AVI, MPEG, and SWF formats. The converter transforms video or SWF files into any other format, including Macromedia Flash SWF and GIF. Video-editing functionality has been implemented as usual copy/paste operations, well known to every Windows user. In s matter of minutes, you can open several MPEG or AVI files, mark fragments you need, paste them into the new movie file, and save the file as SWF with Stop and Play buttons and a preloader.
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All versions:
1.9 starsout of 11 votes
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Current version:
2.3 starsout of 10 votes
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"mr exuberant: modify the extension to .msi only"
Version: Videomaster 1.3
Pros
That should do the trick.
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"great for making gif images bad for turning flv into AVI"
Version: Videomaster 1.3
Pros
great program for making gif images
Cons
bad putting videos into AVI picture didnt move there was sound if you want flv videos into AVI get total video converter. there is a watermark as always
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"CC file?"
Version: Videomaster 1.3
Cons
My computer couldn't open the setup.msi.cc file because I don't have anything that opens whatever a cc file is.
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"JUNK"
Version: Videomaster 1.3
Pros
easy to use
Cons
if you are planning to convert flash movies dont bother because the audio channel wont come out in the end
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"Junk"
Version: Videomaster 1.3
Summary
This program may work, but you had better be an expert in CODECs. When you try to save a file, you will get a list of every video CODEC on your box - in my case, about 30. And the audio is the same - every audio CODEC will also show. But no matter what combination I try, I get "can't start compression", and it won't save.
For $40, this program should be far more intuitive and fail-safe. For those of you with simple systems with few CODECs, maybe it will work better.. but those of you with complex audio-video setups should look to something that doesn't require a PhD in CODEC knowledge! My computer always knows which CODEC to invoke for any given file type, whether it's DVD encoding or whatever.. why can't this program do the same? -
"Good"
Version: Videomaster 1.3
Summary
this product worked well converting flash (.swf) files to avi
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"decent product"
Version: Videomaster 1.3
Summary
small, fast , simple to use. I'd add some feature to make marking more exact... also saving to avi can be comlicated because of selecting encoders.
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