Freemake video converter is a smooth process when downloading and installing. This software only takes a lightweight space (30MB) on your hard drive. The interface of this program is quite straightforward, lining media buttons of video, audio ,DVD and photo on the top. Each button has a plus symbol which indicates how users can add various file formats. It will guide you what to do next as soon as you have imported media files and show a set of soft keys along the buttons of window.

This free video converter can encode a large array of video formats, including FLV, AVI, M4V, MP4 and more, it also converts from virtually any music to MP3. As a bonus, it also lets you drag & drop photos for integrating into converted files. Moreover, it can backup DVDs from a wide range of video formats. If you’re the entry-level user, it includes some helpful tips for converting your files directly to desired formats compatible with devices. In this way, you could either enjoy videos on DVD or portable players like iPhone, iPad, PSP and etc. Users will surprisingly find that this program also features video downloader which enables you to grab videos from YouTube, Veoh and put them into conversions.

In testing period, we noticed that this software handles file types nearly flawlessly to Mp4 for iPod. And it took only 17 to 20 mins to covert. Though there’re some issues related to DVD ripping, for the program may crash sometime, it still works fine for most file types. We just hope the later version will have some improvements for more accurate conversions.

Despite the basic conversion, Pazera MP4 to AVI converter is also quite suitable for non-tech users. It has made the whole operation quite simple than you don’t have to learn from manual. If you know something about the output profiles, you will find audio codec, sampling frequency and bitrate available for adjustment. Advanced users can also go deeper by changing the detailed values, but the default settings will be fairly good for many of us. Due to the fact that the program is quite simple to go through, you will find no instructions on the developer’s site. It’s also a pity that people who want to learn more about this compact but useful tool cannot get enough information. Another annoying setting is that Pazera may prompt you to install a few more things except the program itself, but you can ignore them when installing.

This software is easy to go with, for you just need to specify the URL of the online video and press “Ok”. Once you have downloaded the videos, you can choose to convert them for portable players or Win platform. It fully fulfills your need on YouTube to iPod, YouTube to AVI, YouTube for iPhone and more waiting for you to explore.

• Easy to work through
• Abundant themes and transition effects
• Publish to multiple channels

As a subordinate product of Video Converter, the Wondershare Video to Flash Encoder is pretty nice and simple – you can either begin the conversion from video with hundreds of formats to flash, or edit your material directly. Generally this product is basic and specialized in flash creation, so if you have wider range of requirements, please then look for more comprehensive converters. However, for flash videos, it lets you fully control over creation ,editing and conversion.

• Preview videos for creation, editing and conversion
• Add watermark, apply effects and trim the videos
• Automatic Update

• Use IE as default browser
• Could be roundabout when adding in multiple video files

• Simple to manage and control Flash video files
• Loads of add-ons and options

• Can only save flash clip in BMP or JPG image formats
• Cannot convert Flash to MOV

Generally, this tool works as downloading flash videos on Chrome browser by clicking “Save”. And you may save the downloaded videos in FLV or Mp4 formats. However, it decides which format to save instead of letting you do so. For instance, on DailyMotion, the videos were automatically saved as FLV. But if you choose some sites other than YouTube, DailyMotion, Google and a few more famous sites, you will go to flashvideodownloader.org with the download links. No matter what kinds of sites we have tried so far, this downloader works just fine for them. Also, you will find a helpful online guide. So after all, this tool is a satisfied extension and good addition to Google Chrome for people who want to make up their flash video collection.

Within this tool, you can take the favorite DVDs to plane, mobile, train or watch the movies on your computer, iPhone, Kindle Fire, PDP, Pocket PC, Mp4 player on vacation, in office or at school. Though it does not support converting video for Mac, it’s still a fully-featured suite solution to music and video needs on Win platform. It does not require you to have any knowledge of media or digital formats, but simply works things out as you want. 123 DVD Converter has recently released the 5.0.5 edition and has included supports to new media formats as well as bug fixes.

The FLV to Mp3 Converter is a free Windows software which features a fresh interface for directly importing and exporting. Though it only support flash to mp3, it’s totally free and lets you enjoy the music right away. It’s obviously that the developers had chosen two of the most popular media formats to build up the converter and helped users to access the music the like.

• Fairly simple user interface
• Convert mobile videos to playable formats for DVD

• Cannot convert to many popular formats
• May take some time for conversion

As soon as you have joined in a network with your friends or people with permission, you can access the shared files from web browser and directly get them under your account. You can also let your friends share files using your Internet public folder, while there’s no need for them to register. The only problem of this cool solution is that your system may become slower because the files sync takes up your CPU. Also, there’s no status bar (progress bar) shows how much your sync has gone. After all, though drop box Mac is one of the most powerful file sharing and syncing solution through Internet, it may slow down your Mac system in reality.

• 2GB free Internet storage space along with registration
• Quite helpful for sending large files
• Nice concept of sharing and easy-to-use

• May slow down transfer speed
• No status bar tells you how it work

• Easy to work with
• Create PDF files
• Fill in PDF forms directly

• May add on loads of tools and plug-ins
• No security settings