Tipard Video Converter is an OK app with some relatively minor glitches. At a basic level it’s a simplified GUI for ffmpeg that’s easier than using the command prompt, same as most all of the video converters that have been offered. The price you pay for simplicity is a lack of control – there are quite a few options you can use with ffmpeg, plus even more with the individual H.264/AVC &/or H.265 encoders, both of which are also run from the command prompt. Tipard Video Converter does offer some value added features, like the ability to crop, trim, & enhance the video by adjusting brightness for example, but if those aren’t important for you – you not likely to improve a pro edited video – something like the free Simple x264/x265 Launcher might be a better bet. Several years ago playing video on different devices like a cell phone could be a challenge, and back then device-specific profiles like those in the Tipard Video Converter could be very useful, but nowadays the large number of presets too often just adds confusion. The app does offer GPU hardware acceleration for some of its presets, but there are Gotchas… 1st, many of the operations that can be performed by the GPU will result in lower quality compared to strictly software encoding. 2nd, when you have processes or threads that use both the CPU and GPU, it’s very difficult to coordinate between the two, so one isn’t waiting on the other [enabling AMD accel made conversion slower for me]. 3rd, the encoders used don’t benefit a lot from GPU assist – Intel, Nvidia, & AMD have their own encoders, and Tipard Video Converter just can’t compare to the speed you get from specialized software using those encoders, e.g. A’s Video Converter. bluesky-soft[.]com/en/AsVideoConv.html
Installing Tipard Video Converter adds the program’s folder, a folder under Program Data, A folder under Users\ [UserName]\ AppData\ Local\, and a folder under Document. In the registry you get an uninstall key, a HKCU key for Tipard Studio, and the CLSID {4843A9B1-335C-4a13-8CFC-9B986AEBE1E2} added under both HKCU & HKCR.
Converting &/or editing video.
Whatever you do to a video [besides watching it] is going to cost you quality – if you can leave it alone, Do So. Cutting, joining, or trimming video clips is always [much] better done in a video editor. The simple trim tools offered in several video converters can work, but the results are never going to be ideal. While not always absolutely necessary, converting audio to .wav or .W64 before editing, then encoding to whatever format gives better results. Note that audio & video streams are very often independent, and that the timing data or info included in many video files can be iffy – it’s easy to create sync problems.
If/when you want to make video files smaller, you can sometimes use a more efficient encoder, you can always reduce the amount of data stored by reducing the number of frames &/or their dimensions, and you can reduce the bit rate, which refers to the amount of data that’s streamed when playing the video. When you reduce the encoder bit rate setting you add more video compression to make the file smaller, while also reducing quality, because you’re discarding more of the original data. The way video compression [encoding] works, the lower the bit rate, the more artifacts you’ll see, e.g. it can make groups of pixels that are Almost the same color the same color. Because of that you can often get better results reducing the amount of data stored, reducing the fps [frames per second], the length of video [e.g. cutting off credits], and/or reducing the frame size. Then you can reduce the bit rate, backing off the amount of reduction as artifacts become more noticeable. Using a Variable Bit Rate [VBR] Helps – the encoder uses more compression when things are quiet and uses less compression when there’s lots of movement. Long story short, reducing the frame size &/or fps but keeping a more reasonable VBR bit rate might give you the same size file, but one that often looks better, because most hardware is so good at upscaling those smaller video frames to fill the screen.