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If you watch a lot of video on your computer, a decent video converter is an absolute necessity. But if you also watch a lot of video on your smartphone or tablet, or like to make DVDs, or find yourself constantly saving bits of video for later, a decent video converter isn't good enough. You need a good one. Like Xilisoft's Video Converter Ultimate. It's on the high side of premium video converters for home use, but you get what you pay for, which in this case means automatic profiles enhanced for just about any device or format, automatic graphics card detection and acceleration, video editing, and more. The full-featured Xilisoft Video Converter Ultimate is free to try, but conversions are limited to three minutes, which is plenty of time to see how the software works.
Xilisoft Video Converter Ultimate opened with a message identifying our AMD graphics card and automatically enabling compatible graphics acceleration - a good start, by any measure. We could easily disable the acceleration with a click or two, of course, but we recommend owners of AMD/ATI or Nvidia CUDA graphics cards let the converter's built-in GPU detection take advantage of all available processing power, since it can improve video quality. Xilisoft's user interface bears a family resemblance to other video converters, but it's much better designed and rendered, with crisp, attractive icons and excellent functionality. The program opened with a Getting Started Guide: Step 1, choose a profile from a drop-down list with just about every option you could ask for, starting with the default choice, iPod. Many of the formats showed the AMD APP logo, signifying compatibility with enhanced graphics. Needless to say, we started with some of those. We keep a folder of sample videos for converting, which lets us compare both conversion time and quality. Xilisoft Video Converter Ultimate's trial limitation kept us from judging its conversion speed - let's just call it "fast." Our converted videos played normally and with excellent quality.
Xilisoft is probably justified in calling its video converter the Ultimate. It's as least as good as the others we've tried, and better than most.
Editors' note: This is a review of the trial version of Xilisoft Video Converter Ultimate 7.7.0.20130109.
Xilisoft Video Converter Ultimate - Convert video between popular formats - Download Video Previews:Publisher's Description
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Xilisoft Video Converter Ultimate is the easiest, fastest, most reliable, and loaded with more features. It can convert videos of all popular formats including AVI, MPEG, WMV, DivX, MP4, H.264/AVC, AVCHD, MKV, RM, MOV, XviD, 3GP, and audio formats such as MP3, WMA, WAV, RA, M4A, AAC, AC3, OGG. Now with Xilisoft Video Converter Ultimate, you can convert video, audio, and animated images to play them on your PSP, PS3, iPod, iPhone, Apple TV, Xbox, Google phones, iPad and other digital multimedia devices. You can also simply customize your own video by editing videos, clip/merge/split, watermarks/subtitles/soundtracks. Now it's easy to use Xilisoft Video Converter Ultimate to convert 3D video, 2D to 3D, 3D to 3D and 3D to 2D. Xilisoft also provide the solution to rotate video shot by any type of camcorders and your iPhone 5.
Xilisoft Video Converter Ultimate has introduced the NIVIDIA CUDA & AMD APP technology and multi-core application, so as to enhance the conversion speed by 5 times.
What's new in this version: Version 7.7.1.20130115:
- Supported to the latest Graphics Card on GPU acceleration.
- Optimized the default profile for all kinds of devices.
- Fixed some launch failure issue on Windows 8.
- Fixed some H.264 encoding bugs with NVIDIA Graphics Card.
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Version: Xilisoft Video Converter Ultimate 7.7.1.20130115
Pros
Doesn't apply
Cons
Unfortunately I had the opportunity to trial their Video Converter Ultimate. It appeared to be similar as other applications on CNet in performance and features; just the navigation works differently.
Due to being a novice in this type of software, I thought it would rip files off a DVD, since the file extensions seemed available. I wasn't aware that you apparently need DVD Ripping software, usually separately.
My issue, when I tried to get a refund, as they are apparently an off-shore company, I was given to a clearing house. I have tried unsuccessfully to get my money back after a purchase less than 24hrs. prior. They want to keep trading me into another application, nothing else. Pretty much a scam and fraud.Summary
I can't vouch for the software performance. However, I wouldn't do business with this company in their unethical procedures.
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Version: Xilisoft Video Converter Ultimate 7.7.1.20130115
Pros
Great software. It supports a lot of video formats. Very easy-to-use. I used many other converters, but it looks like this one it the best. And I found 20% discount here:
www.softwarediscounts.info/xilisoft_video_converter_ultimate.htmCons
Nothing bad to say.
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"Ultimate Converter"
Version: Xilisoft Video Converter Ultimate 7.7.1.20130115
Pros
I like all the video and audio options you can convert to or from. Extract audio from video edit video I download video from youtube with Youtube Downloader HD. I will take a music video and extract the audio in WAV format put it on CD or MP3 for my MP3 player the audio sounds great the video quality is very good no matter the format.
Cons
A major Con is the stingy trial I think more people would purchase Xilisoft Video Converter Ultimate if you had at the least full use for 15 days. Really test it out get used to it the price is questionable. I tried Wondershare Video Converter Ultimate it didn't impress me.
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I purchased Xilisoft Video Converter Ultimate I'm pleased with it seems like I use it every chance I get. I don't give any software a good review unless it can do 100% what it claims if it can't I'm harsh on my review.
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