Video Tools

AllVideoDownloader
License: Shareware Last Reviewed: 2013-01-09
Version: 5.0 – Released: 2013-01-09 Windows: XP, Vista, 7
File Size: 12.4 MB
“AllVideoDownloader is a free software to download clips from all videos websites. With AllVideoDownloader, you can download videos from Youtube, Dailymotion, Vimeo, Google video, Yahoo video, Tubewatcher, Koreus, Myspace… and more than 280 streaming video sites. Output format: .avi, .wmv, .mpeg1, .mpeg2, .mp4, .mov, .flv, iPod, iPod Touch, iPad, iPhone, Psp, Ps3, DVD… ”
Anchor Link Any Video Converter Free
License: Freeware Last Reviewed: 2013-04-25
Version: 5.0.5 – Released: 2013-04-24 Windows: XP, 2003, Vista, 7, 8
File Size: 35.5 MB Both 32- and 64-bit compatible
“Any Video Converter is an All-in-One video converting tool with easy-to-use graphical interface, fast converting speed and excellent video quality. It allows you to effortlessly convert video files between every format! It can convert almost all video formats including DivX, XviD, MOV, rm, rmvb, MPEG, VOB, DVD, WMV, AVI to MPEG-4 movie format for PSP or other portable video device, MP4 player or smart phone. Any Video Converter makes it easy for anyone to enjoy any format video with your PSP, mobile phone or MP4 player.”
Anchor Link Ashampoo ClipFinder
License: Freeware Last Reviewed: 2013-01-03
Version: 2.30 – Released: 2013-01-03 Windows: XP, Vista, 7
File Size: 12 MB Requires: Free Registration
“Find and immediately download videos from YouTube, VideU, MyVideo and ClipFish at the click of a mouse. The Ashampoo ClipFinder knows the most important portals and can, analogue to a search machine, simultaneously pass on a quickly made search inquiry to all video portals. A few seconds later, the Ashampoo ClipFinder collects all hits in its program window in order to make the user curious with preview pictures. The Ashampoo ClipFinder proves to be very future-proof with all of its activities. Through an update function, it is possible at any time to expand the program by further video portals.
“The Ashampoo ClipFinder is available to all video fans as a free full version. Through a one-time online registration, the program can immediately be released as an unlimited full version.”
Anchor Link Avidemuxupdate
License: Freeware Last Reviewed: 2013-05-11
Version: 2.6.4 – Released: 2013-05-10 Windows: XP, 2003, Vista, 7, 8
File Size: 12.2 MB Both 32- and 64-bit versions
“Video editor designed for simple cutting, filtering and encoding tasks.
“Avidemux supports a great number of file types, including AVI, MPEG, MP4/MOV, OGM, ASF/WMV, MKV and FLV. It also provides a great number of video filters, e.g. resize, deinterlace, IVTC, sharpen and denoise. Furthermore Avidemux ships with various encoders built-in, such as: x264, Xvid, LAME, TwoLAME and Aften.”
Anchor Link Easy Video Joiner
License: Free registration Last Reviewed: 2012-12-23
Version: 5.21 – Released: 2003-06-30 Windows: 9x, Me, NT, 2000, XP
File Size: 3.2 MB
“Easy Video Joiner can help you join multiple AVI, MPEG (MPG), RM (Real Media) or WMV/ASF (Window Media) files into one large movie file. You can add an unlimited number of video files as you like to the list and easily rearrange their order if needed. It does not recode the video, just joins the files without recoding. With just a few mouse clicks, you can enjoy your movie clips without interruption.
Key Features:
1. Can join AVI files(*.avi, *.wav), MPEG-4 and DivX are supported;
2. Can join MPEG files(*.mpeg, *.mpg, *.m2p, *.m1v, *.m2v, *.mp3, *.mpga), MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 are supported;
3. Can join Real Media files(*.rm, *.ram);
4. Can join Windows Media files(*.wmv, *.asf, *.wma);
5. Not only join video files, but also join most audio files with popular format(*.mp3, *.mpga, *.rm, *.wma, *.wav);
6. Very easy to use and very fast to work.”
Anchor Link Free Video Tools
License: Freeware Last Reviewed: 2013-01-29
Both 32- and 64-bit compatible Windows: 2000, XP, 2003, Vista, 7
“DVDVideoSoft is an independent developer of multimedia software programs for video, audio, photo and image processing. The company offers 40+ safe, reliable and functional applications to download videos from YouTube and convert to mp3, upload to YouTube and Facebook, edit and convert audio and video files between different formats, burn CD, DVD discs, create DVDs, convert DVDs to video files, convert and resize images, record screen activities and make screenshots, convert video to playback on different devices, make 3D pictures and videos. All free software:
Free Audio CD Burner 2.0.22
Free Audio CD to MP3 Converter 1.3.12
Free Audio Converter 5.0.22
Free Audio Dub 1.7.9
Free Audio to Flash Converter 5.0.22
Free Disc Burner 3.0.18
Free DVD Video Burner 3.2.6
Free DVD Video Converter 2.0.13
Free Image Convert and Resize 2.1.22
Free Video Dub 2.0.18
Free Video Flip and Rotate 2.1.6
Free Video to DVD Converter 5.0.22
Free Video to Flash Converter 5.0.22 Free Video to iPad Converter 5.0.24
Free Video to iPhone Converter 5.0.22
Free Video to iPod Converter 5.0.22
Free Video to JPG Converter 5.0.22
Free Video to MP3 Converter 5.0.22
Free YouTube Download 3.2.0
Free YouTube to DVD Converter 3.1.0
Free YouTube to MP3 Converter 3.12.0
Free YouTube to iPhone Converter 2.12.0
Free YouTube to iPod 3.11.0
Free Uploader for Facebook 1.2.0
Free YouTube Uploader 3.3.40
Free 3GP Video Converter 5.0.22
Free Studio 6.0.0.128
[ Above is only a partial list (including Version numbers) of the applications offered; Ed. ]
Anchor Link Freemake Video Converterupdate
License: Freeware Last Reviewed: 2013-05-13
Version: 4.0.1.2 – Released: 2013-05-13 Windows: XP, Vista, 7, 8
File Size: 26.5 MB
“Convert video free to AVI, MP4, WMV, MKV, 3GP, DVD, MP3, iPad, iPhone, PSP, Android phones. Video to MP3 with one click! Rip & burn DVD. Convert YouTube to MP4, AVI, etc. with Freemake! Guaranteed result.”
[ This program is advertising supported and may offer to install third party programs that are not required for the program to run. These may include a toolbar, changing your homepage, default search engine or other third party programs. Please watch the installation carefully to opt out. Ed. ]
Anchor Link K-Lite Video Conversion Pack
License: Freeware Last Reviewed: 2012-03-13
Version: 1.9.0 – Released: 2011-06-16 Windows: 2000, XP, 2003, Vista, 7
File Size: 20.4 MB
“This pack contains the following applications:
√ Avidemux (version 2.5.4 (r5660))
√ ImgBurn (version 2.5.5.0)
√ DVDStyler (version 1.8.3.0)
“Avidemux is a very powerful tool for editing video files. It supports almost every type of video file as input. It can do lots of things:, cut, remux, convert, etc. It contains its own decoders and encoders for all common audio and video formats, so it does not need any codecs.
“ImgBurn is a tool for burning DVD image files (ISO, IMG, etc).
“DVDStyler is a basic DVD authoring tool. With this you can create your own DVD, complete with a custom menu.”
Anchor Link Miro
License: Freeware Last Reviewed: 2012-03-13
Version: 4.0.6 – Released: 2012-02-16 Windows: XP, Vista, 7
File Size: 259 KB
“Miro (formerly Democracy Player) is an Internet video player that allows you to choose from a variety of channels, subscribe to video feeds and view them with the integrated player. The channel guide includes more than 600 channels, mostly podcasts and user submitted video clips, and you can also add your own podcast by entering the URL. The program also includes video search for Google, YouTube and Yahoo Video allowing you to find additional content based on your keywords. Miro integrates BitTorrent and can work as a standalone BitTorrent client. Other features include a personal media library, video playlists, fullscreen mode, automatic channel downloads.”
Anchor Link save2pc Lite
License: Free and Shareware Last Reviewed: 2013-02-14
Version: 4.2.7.387 – Released: 2013-02-14 Windows: XP, 2003, Vista, 7
File Size: 2.95 MB
“save2pc is a tool that downloads videos from video sharing websites and saves it to your PC or Laptop. No need to use scripts for web browsers. Just run save2pc and start downloading! Four editions are available:
“The Light edition is the smallest edition and enables your PC to download videos from YouTube and save it as Avi (for Windows) or Mpeg (for DVD players) or Flv (not converted) file to your local computer. This edition is absolutely free! The user interface is very simple, so you don’t need any technical knowledge to use it.
“The Standard edition offers a richer feature set, including an advanced user-friendly graphical user interface and support for more than 10+ video sharing sites. Amongst other features are multiple downloads during one program session, preview capability and direct support for Windows Media Video (WMV) file format.
“The professional edition includes all features of the Standard edition, plus the support for more than 10 additional top video sharing sites. With this edition, you can convert downloaded video to watch it on a PC, Laptop, iPod, Sony PSP, Zune, PDA, iPhone, cell phone, Palm, Pocket PC. It also comes with an Adult Pack.
“The Ultimate edition is the best edition available. It allows the user to download HD and HQ videos and supports for more than 30+ most popular video sharing sites. Another great feature is an adaptive download accelerator, that will increase the speed of your downloads by 200%. It also comes with an Extra Adult Pack.”
Anchor Link Video Capture Factory
License: Shareware Last Reviewed: 2012-03-02
Version: 7.2.0.620 – Released: 2011-01-13 Windows: All
File Size: 5.5 MB Requires: .NET Framework 3
Both 32- and 64-bit compatible
“Video Capture Factory enables you to capture real-time video and snapshots from your webcam, DV Camcorder, TV card or other input devices, as well as local video files. The captured video can be saved an AVI/MPEG or ASF format using the video codecs installed on your system. You can capture video or snapshots on demand or automatically every X seconds, and also use the integrated motion detection features to start capture automatically whenever motion is detected in the video feed. The captures can be saved to disk, uploaded to and FTP server or sent by email. Other features include optional video overlays, video effects, support for device playback control, video compression and more.”
Anchor Link Video Enhancer
License: Shareware Last Reviewed: 2012-09-11
Version: 1.9.8.2 – Released: 2012-09-11 Windows: All
File Size: 2.9 MB
“Video Enhancer enables you to increase the resolution of your video files, often without noticeable quality loss. It uses a Super Resolution technique that uses information from previous frames (instead of the same frame) to create a high quality enlargement with minimal quality loss. Video Enhancer produces excellent results with 2x enlargements and good result even with 4x resolution increase. The program supports most VirtualDub filters which allows you to add additional enhancements like denoising, deblocking, sharpening, color corrections and more. VideoEnhancer can take advantage of dual/quad core or hyperthreading CPUs for increased performance, especially when processing video filters.”
Anchor Link Video to Video Converter
License: Freeware Last Reviewed: 2013-02-26
Version: 2.9.1.13 – Released: 2013-02-26 Windows: XP, Vista, 7
File Size: 21.4 MB Both 32- and 64-bit compatible
Portable version available on-site
“Video to Video is a handy utility that will help you quickly encode video files, rip DVDs, join movie and sound and many more. The program supports a wide variety of video formats and comes with a live preview feature to help you take a look at the loaded clips before encoding them. With Video to Video you can also load DVD discs and save the main movie to a format you like.
“Here are some key features:
♦ Supports hundreds of input formats and output presets
♦ Compatible with all common video filetypes, including AVI, MPEG, MOV, MKV, FLV, 3GP, SWF, etc.
♦ Supports several audio formats for output, including MP3, AC3, MP2, AAC, WAV, OGG Vorbis, FLAC, etc.
♦ Has DVD ripping functions
♦ Can burn video DVDs
♦ Supports subtitles, watermarks and video filters”
Anchor Link Video2Webcamupdate
License: Shareware Last Reviewed: 2013-05-13
Version: 3.4.0.6 – Released: 2013-05-13 Windows: 2000, XP, Vista
File Size: 2.91 MB Both 32- and 64-bit compatible
“Video2Webcam enables you to broadcast video clips via popular webcam applications and messengers (even if you do not have a web cam). The program installs as a virtual video driver that can be integrated with any web cam application (Live Messenger, Skype, ICQ, Yahoo, YouTube etc.) by selecting the Video2Webcam entry as the active input source. You can add multiple video clips to a playlist and optionally loop through them. The program supports all popular video formats with the help of K-Liyte Mega Codec (included) as well as CD/DVD video.”
Anchor Link video4pc
License: Freeware Last Reviewed: 2013-01-03
Version: 3.3 – Released: 2013-01-02 Windows: XP, Vista, 7, 8
File Size: 3.92 MB
“video4pc is a free handy application that enables you to download your favorite videos from the popular video sharing websites and convert them to any video formats. Features:
• Automatically parse the address of video page from the clipboard;
• Convert downloaded files into any video format of your choice: .avi, .wmv, .mpeg, .3gp, .mp3, etc.;
• Download High Quality (HQ) and High Definition (HD) videos (if the servers supports this feature);
• Detect a direct link to download video files from dozens of sites all over the Web: YouTube, Facebook, Metacafe, Dailymotion, MySpace, Vimeo, TeacherTube, etc. Simultaneous downloading of multiple files.”
Anchor Link VideoCacheView
License: Freeware Last Reviewed: 2012-12-17
Version: 2.45 – Released: 2012-12-15 Windows: All
File Size: 88 KB Portable
Both 32- and 64-bit versions
“After watching a video in a Web site, you may want to save the video file into your local disk for playing it offline in the future. If the video file is stored in your browser’s cache, this utility can help you to extract the video file from the cache and save it for watching it in the future.
“It automatically scans the entire cache of Internet Explorer and Mozilla-based Web browsers (Including Firefox) and finds all video files that are currently stored in it. It allows you to easily copy the cached video files into another folder for playing/watching them in the future. If you have a movie player that is configured to play flv files, it also allows you to play the video directly from your browser’s cache.
“Version 2.20
• Added support for the splitted video files of YouTube Web site. After the scanning and loading process of the video files list is finished, VideoCacheView automatically detects the .flv video files split by YouTube Web site, and displays every chunk of splitted files as a single record.
• The new ‘Splitted Files Count’ column displays the number of splitted files that the displayed record represents.
• When you use the ‘Copy Selected Files To…’ option, VideoCacheView automatically mergesall splitted files into one .flv that can be played in .flv player. The files are merged in the order
• When you choose to delete a record containing splitted video files, all splitted files are deleted at once.”
Anchor Link VideoHelp
Information Only Last Reviewed: 2012-08-04
Updated daily
“This site will help you to make your own DVD, Blu-ray, DivX, XviD, HD, etc. that can be played on your standalone DVD Player, Blu-ray Player or Media Center from video sources like DVD, Video, TV, DV, Cam or downloaded movie clips like AVI, DivX, XviD, WMV, Flash, etc.”
Anchor Link VideoInspector
License: Freeware Last Reviewed: 2013-01-02
Version: 2.5.0.128 – Released: 2012-12-30 Windows: XP, Vista, 7, 8
File Size: 1.49 MB
“VideoInspector is a tool designed to provide you with as much information as possible about your video files. With VideoInspector you’ll know why a video file has no sound or refuses to play correctly. VideoInspector will help you install the required CoDecs (coder/decoder software) for an optimal performance. VideoInspector can also inspect your system to find which codecs are available, and it can also process multiple video files and export its result in HTML or plain text files.”
[ CAUTION: Watch the installer carefully as it adds Relevant Knowledge and other addons that you can opt out of. Ed. ]
Anchor Link Videozilla
License: Shareware – $29.95 Last Reviewed: 2012-06-27
Version: 3.5.0 – Released: 2012-06-28 Windows: 2000, XP, Vista, 7
File Size: 27 MB Both 32-bit and 64-bit supported
“Videozilla is a right-click video conversion tool for AVI, MPEG, RM, MOV, ASF, and WMV conversions. It provides customizable settings for video width, height and quality, as well as codecs choices. Just right-click any video file(s) in Windows Explorer and click convert on the context menu to convert the selected video files. The program can also extract audio from vieo files and save it as MP3, and includes a right-click video player. VIDEOzilla supports AVI (DivX, XviD, MS MPEG-4, Uncompressed, Cinepak and other), MPEG (MPEG (MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 Video, VCD and SVCD, PAL, and NTSC), WMV, RM, DVD , ASF and QuickTime MOV format.”
Anchor Link VirtualDub
License: GNU GPL Last Reviewed: 2012-03-13
Version: 1.9.11 – Released: 2010-12-24 Windows: All
File Size: 1.6 MB Portable
Both 32- and 64-bit versions
“VirtualDub is a video capture/processing utility for 32-bit and 64-bit Windows platforms. It lacks the editing power of a general-purpose editor such as Adobe Premiere, but is streamlined for fast linear operations over video. It has batch-processing capabilities for processing large numbers of files and can be extended with third-party video filters. VirtualDub is mainly geared toward processing AVI files, although it can read (not write) MPEG-1 and also handle sets of BMP images.”
Anchor Link Web Video Capture
License: Freeware Last Reviewed: 2012-03-13
Version: 1.41 – Released: 2011-10-04 Windows: 2000, XP, 2003, Vista
File Size: 32 KB Portable
“While watching a video in a Web site, you may sometimes want to save the video into your local drive, and then play it offline later. This utility allows you to capture .flv (Flash Video) files and RTSP/MMS video streams while the Web browser download and play them inside a Web page. After the entire video file is downloaded and played by the Web browser, the video file is saved in the folder that you selected, and you can play it offline later with any Video player.
“WebVideoCap can capture the video files of most popular video-sharing sites, including YouTube, Google Video, Yahoo Video, iFilm, Metacafe, Putfile, and more… ”
Anchor Link WinX Video Converter
License: Freeware Last Reviewed: 2012-03-13
Version: 4.5.11 – Released: 2011-06-01 Windows: All
File Size: 8 MB
“WinX Video Converter is a professional multi-function video converter with friendly and simple interface. And this great video converting software is 100% free for all users from this moment. WinX Video Converter could help users easily and fast convert assorted video formats into popular video formats as AVI, WMV, FLV, MOV, MP4, MPEG, and also could convert between all of these popular video formats each other. Although, this program is totally free, it offers powerful functions, fast video converting speed and very stable converting process. Furthermore, this free video converter is very easy to use, only a few steps could finish the whole converting process.”
Anchor Link Youtube Downloader HD
License: Freeware Last Reviewed: 2013-03-03
Version: 2.9.6 – Released: 2012-11-23 Windows: 2000, XP, 2003, Vista, 7
File Size: 4.53 MB Portable version available on-site
“Youtube Downloader HD is a free tool to download videos from YouTube and save it to your local computer. The videos can be converted to avi video format or to mp4 (compatible with iPod, iPhone).
“Now you can download High Quality videos, High Definition and Full HD videos from YouTube.”
Anchor Link YouTube Free Downloader
License: Freeware Last Reviewed: 2013-03-03
Version: 1.5.0.0 – Released: 2013-03-01 Windows: 2000, XP, 2003, Vista, 7
File Size: 790 KB
“YouTube Free Downloader is a simple application to quickly capture and download MP4 video files from YouTube. Just launch the program, open the YouTube video in your browser and copy its link. The program will automatically take the link from the clipboard. It allows you to download multiple YouTube videos all at once for free and save the downloaded MP4 videos to your hard drive. With this YouTube Free Downloader, you can download your favorite YouTube videos (include HD quality) on Windows with only a few clicks. This free MP4 YouTube downloader also supports to download multiple YouTube videos all at once for free.”