VideoVista Standard Edition

VideoVista is a software tool that can encode video files to the VVF format, so you can play them online without the need of a dedicated server.

It supports the AVI, MPG, MOV, MP4 and MP3 formats for the input, among others, as well as includes a video player that uses the Java applet.

The interface of the program is made from a standard window with an intuitive layout, where you can load a video file into the working environment by using only the file browser, since "drag and drop" are not supported. Unfortunately, you cannot work with multiple items at the same time.

Aside from previewing the clip in a built-in media player, you can select the streams after viewing the width, height, frame rate, along with the audio and video bit rate.

It is also possible to trim the video by marking the start and end position, crop it, make VideoVista preserve the aspect ratio, enable deinterlacing mode, generate an HTML page, as well as include a graphics toolbar. Settings can be saved for future tasks. If you want to just play videos, then you can access a separate executable file called VideoVista Player.

The straightforward application requires just a small amount of CPU and system memory, has a good response time and finishes a conversion job rapidly. We have not come across any technical difficulties during our tests since the program did not freeze, crash or pop up error dialogs. To sum it up, VideoVista is a pretty good solution for creating web-ready VVF files from common video types.