Switching DXVA on and off seemed to have little effect on conversion speed, so we can only wonder what the Nvidia card could have done. Most rippers, like Wondershare Uniconverter (opens in new tab), use GPU-acceleration to speed up rips, but this misses out.Įlsewhere, Freemake Video Converter’s handling of video files is commendably swift, with the basic built-in editor able to quickly trim clips, and rotate them too. The application was also unable to detect the Nvidia graphics card in our test machine, defaulting instead to DirectX video acceleration. We wonder if it’s being deliberately held back, such is the way the progress bar shoots along for its first half, before slowing to a crawl and taking 20 minutes to rip a DVD.
Without unlocking the ‘4x more speed’ pack, Freemake Video Converter is a dreadfully slow thing.
(Image credit: Freemake) Freemake Video Converter review: Speed Compare this with apps that offer similar features for $60, like WinX DVD Ripper Platinum (opens in new tab), or even for free, and Freemake Video Converter starts to look like less of a good deal. Buying five of these unlock packs for unlimited usage, which you’d hope would open up every locked feature in the entire program, costs a huge $170. There are so many levels of unlocks available, with one-week, one-month, six-month and unlimited tiers, plus special offers and huge original prices, that it’s easy to get confused about how much you’re being asked to pay for which features, and for how long you’ll have them for. The ‘Remove Branding’ link pops up a window offering features such as faster conversion speeds and DVD menu authoring in return for upgrading your copy. The free version of the software embeds its logo into the resulting video file, and therefore is really only any use to test the program out and see if you like the way it works. If you find yourself making significant changes to a preset then you can save your own custom one, choosing between MPEG4 or h264 video encoding, setting custom framerate and bitrate, and then doing the same for sound, with three codecs on offer. You have a choice of one-pass encoding, which is faster, or the better quality two-pass method, and can choose where the resulting file will be saved, but that’s about it. By putting its source choices along the top of its interface, and a selection of common presets along the bottom, Freemake Video Converter makes it as easy as possible to get started in DVD ripping and video converting.īeyond the presets, there isn’t a great deal of tweaking to be done.
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