Total Video Converter Pro: DVD 4+

It’s … okay, but lacking some obvious features

When adding a video to the queue to be transcoded, this program offers me the chance to fine-tune settings. Great! It also offers me a chance to apply those same settings to all the video clips in my queue. Also great! It gives me a chance to save those setting. Even more great … except I’ve poked around with the UI for ages, and never found a way to apply saved settings to a new batch. They’re saved … somewhere … and I can’t figure out how to re-apply them. I’d love to save them as my default settings, as the defaults that are set up are truly wonky. (24 fps default … just, really? Why? Who designed this, and what needs did they have?) The end result leaves me prone to frustration. The UI’s snappy enough. For the most part, the program does what it needs to do. But the ability to save my own presets, and actually apply those as my default each time I use the program, would save me a lot of frustration and cursing. The wide variety of transcode outputs makes this program more versatile than Handbrake, which is why I was happy to spend money on it. But it really could take a page from that (free) proram in terms of quality-of-life user experience features.

Developer Response ,

Thank you so much for your feedback. The saved settings can be found in the "Favorite" category at the bottom of the interface as an output choice. If you are still unable to find it, please restart Total Video Converter. Or you may contact ip-support@effectmatrix.com for more information. We're glad to hear from you.

What a Pro Needs

Okay, look. When you start doing this job professionally, what rises to the top of the importance heap is workflow. TVCP is an essential part of my workflow that does what it's designed to do: convert video formats from one to another. The array of formats and codecs is impressive and supplies all that I need in day-to-day assembly of work on Premiere Pro, my chosen platform. Trying to work with mixed formats and fps speeds can lead to unreliable products and sudden blackouts of your editing software. I'm glad to have a simple utility that performs reliably time after time.

Wonderful has never crashed on me

Ever since the first year when I bought the product for little to nothing, it has not failed to but give me good on it’s return. It’s the easiest with many formats for which to choose. I like the fact that I just keep getting updates without having to pay extra. I’m not techy, but little ole me can do it with ease. I would recommend this product to whomever needs something like this. It will make your life easy and worth every penny.

Developer Response ,

Thank you so much for your kind support.