ConvertX

Clips and songs can be found under a large variety of different file formats, depending on the encoders used to create the file. However, some editors, or even online services might limit you from uploading the one you have, in which case applications like ConvertX help you keep quality intact, but change the format to the one you need.

A good thing about it is that you don’t even have to go through a setup process to make it work, which means you can carry it around on a thumb drive to perform conversion from other computers as well. The target PC doesn’t need to make any modification to registries, thus keeping stability intact.

The main window is split into several section, with a clean layout that gives anyone the chance to at least try out the set of features. Although you can’t drop files over the main window to load them, the browse dialog isn’t that difficult to use. You’re able to process both video and audio files, with supported formats like AVI, WMV, FLV, MPG, MPEG, MOV, WAV, and MP3.

Output, on the other hand, benefits from a few more. These are picked from a dedicated drop-down menu, and most of them are predefined profiles specially made for several gaming consoles, mobile phones, and such.

However, you can take matters into your own hands and choose to customize output quality. Doing so makes a side panel available, with options to configure audio and video codecs, bitrate, framerate, resolution, extension, samples, channels, whether to keep quality, and deinterlace.

The output is the same folder as the source, with an additional subfolder created. You need to manually write down the path if you want to change it. Conversion doesn’t usually take a lot of time, but this mostly depends on configured quality options. Once done, the destination can be brought up at the press of a button.

Bottom line is that modern multimedia players usually attempt to read all kinds of different formats. On the other hand, ConvertX comes as a neat way of quickly turning a file to the format you need, with various preset options, as well as the possibility to go under the hood and fine tune all video and audio settings.