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Softpedia Editor's Review for River Past Video Perspective
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Video converter with aspect ratio adjustment from AVI, WMV, MPEG, MOV to AVI / WMV
Written by Elena Opris on March 13th, 2012
River Past Video Perspective is a program that you can use to encode video files between various formats, including AVI, MKV, MPEG, MOV and ASF.
The interface of the application is plain and simple. You can import media by using the file browser only, since the "drag and drop" method is not supported (and neither is batch processing).
So, you can set the output frame format and scaling, as well as flip and rotate the image.
But you can also preview the video and take a snapshot, view file properties, load skipped codecs and use the undo and redo functions.
In addition, you can set the aspect ratio, specify the output destination and format, configure audio and video settings (e.g. resolution, compressor, sample frequency rate, channel, bit rate, quality), and proceed with the conversion process.
The software requires a moderate-to-high amount of system resources and includes a step-by-step tutorial with snapshots. On the other hand, we have encountered a lot of issues during our tests. Besides the fact that River Past Video Perspective does not support batch processing, it takes a very long time to complete a task.
For example, it performed an AVI-to-WMV conversion in 6 minutes and 55 seconds, while taking into the account the fact that the AVI file had a length of 5 minutes and 35 seconds.
In addition, it didn't manage to maintain the image quality of the aforementioned AVI-to-WMV conversion, froze when trying to open a SWF file and crashed when opening an MPEG one.
The bottom line is that River Past Video Perspective appears to have a lot of stability issues (at least on Windows 7), so we recommend you look for a more powerful software at this moment.
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River Past Video Perspective description
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Here are some key features of "River Past Video Perspective":
River Past Video Perspective supports a wide range of input video file formats:
· 3GPP/3GPP2 Mobile Phone Video(*.3gp, *.3g2)
· Audio Video Interleave (*.avi)
· VCD Media File (*.dat)
· DivX Video (*.divx)
· Digital Video (*.dv)
· Autodesk Flic Animation (*.flc, *.fli)
· Animated GIF (*.gif)
· Intel Video Technology (*.ivt)
· Matroska(*.mkv)
· Apple QuickTime (*.mov, *.qt)
· MPEG-4 (*.mp4)
· MPEG-1 Video (*.mpeg, *.mpg, *.mp1)
· OGG Media(*.ogm)
· RealMedia (*.rm, *.ram)
· Windows Media Video (*.wmv)
· Xvid Video (*.xvid)
River Past Video Perspective supports the following output formats:
· 3GP/3GP2 (3GP Booster Pack required)
· AVI
· Animated GIF (Animated GIF Booster Pack required)
· DivX
· DV
· FLC Animiation (Animated GIF Booster Pack required)
· Image Sequence (Image Sequence Booster Pack required)
· OGM (OGG Media)
· MOV (MOV Booster Pack required)
· MP4 (MPEG-4 Booster Pack required)
· MKV (Matroska)
· RM (RealMedia Booster Pack required)
· WMV (Windows Media Audio)
· XviD
· You have the full control over the codec of the AVI file. You can choose the video compressor, and its compression quality.
Aspect Ratio:
· River Past Video Perspective is the only software in this price range to support aspect ratio adjustment, when converting to AVI files.
· You have the options of "Scale to Fit", "Pan and Scan", and "Letter Box". When using "Pan and Scan", the sides of the video are chopped to fit the destination aspect ratio. When using "Letterbox", black strips are added.
Requirements:
· DirectX 9.0 and above
· Pentium III/Celeron CPU of 500 MHz or above.
· A sound card is required.
· Windows Media Format 9 runtime to run.
Limitations:
· A watermark will be added to the converted video
· Nag screen What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
· Now can convert from Matroska MKV and OGG Media OGM. Also added MKV and OGM as output formats.
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