viDrop

viDrop is a software tool which can be used in order to help individuals transform their video files to other formats, suitable for specified devices or environments.

The installation process is surprise-free and fast, and after you are done with it, you are greeted by a plain and simple UI, which only contains a few drop-down menus, boxes and buttons. It is accessible to both novice and power users, as the interface can be switched between an advanced and simple mode, with just a click of the button.

This program enables you to upload movies with the help of a file browser. You should know the “drag and drop” function is not incorporated, which can be considered as a small setback. Nevertheless, batch processing is available in the advanced mode.

It is possible to preview videos and transform them using options specific to particular devices, such as HTC Desire, Motorola DROID, iPod, iPhone, Nintendo Wii and Sony PlayStation, as well as for YouTube.

You can also append subtitles from your hard drive to the movie, as well as tweak advanced settings, such as changing the video and audio codec and bit rate, width, height and channels. What’s more you can rotate or flip the image, sharpen it or add a specified type of deinterlace. The subtitle’s aspect can be customized from all stand points, and it is possible to use only a selected time interval.

The conversion process might not be so friendly to your computer’s performance, as it requires quite a fair amount of system resources.

ViDrop proves to be a useful piece of software through a good response time, an intuitive environment, enough options to keep you busy for quite a while and good quality results. Our tests did not reveal any errors or crashes. Nonetheless, it could benefit from an update.