Are you tired of these video converters that are very nice in terms of their interface but have compatibility problems and are somewhat weak in power? Well, then, in TMPGEnc, you will have found the assistant you are looking for. We are talking about a program that has been constantly updated recently and has become one of the best alternatives in this segment.

TMPGEnc is nothing more than a video converter, which also has support for audio files and excels in its field by the huge number of formats with which it allows us to work. Of course, although we will talk about its design later, you have to keep in mind that a little, as we pointed out before, its interface is not the most colorful.

Operation

But let's move on to the best of TMPGEnc, its ability to adapt to a huge variety of input formats, among which we can mention the following: Quick Time, Dolby Digital, DivX, MPEG-4 (H.264), HD, AVCDHD, Flash video, MPEG-2 or MP3. And what about output formats? There are also many: MPEG, MPEG-2, MPEG-4 (H.264), DivX, MPEG, MP3, Blu-Ray, or HD.

As you can see, with TMPGEnc, you can perform all the video format conversions you want. This tool will also allow you to extract the soundtracks from those audios obtaining them in MP3 to manage later as you prefer. In the same way, we didn't want to mention that this software includes all the necessary codecs, so you won't have to worry about the following installations or anything.

The usual procedure for using TMPGEnc is one of the easiest in the world since you must first select the videos you want to convert and then set if you want to have only a portion of it. Then you must apply the effects you consider appropriate and choose an output format, among other personal parameters. You start the conversion, which will take time depending on the weight of the resulting file, and that's it.

Although TMPGEnc can be used for many purposes, as many formats it supports, the truth is that it is a service that has been specially designed so that even the less advanced users can carry out their DVDs or Blu-Ray. Even if you have a webcam installed on your PC and want to capture the video it shows, you will be able to synchronize it with this application, thus avoiding installing another program.

If you want to generate these discs, you possess three formats that could be considered the highest quality, in the cases of DivX, BDMV, and DVD. Then, to the videos you work with, you can add subtitles if you think it is appropriate. All kinds of menus and transitions, so you can generate your DVDs with chapters for professional presentations if you want.

And as if all that wasn't enough, during the editing of your TMPGEnc videos, you can also add other files that you have stored on your PC, so it will be elementary for you to make amateur productions without a paid tool.

Now, we come to the user interface of TMPGEnc, about which we have already anticipated that we do not expect too much from the visual. The truth is that this is somewhat poor software to the eye, but it redeems itself by offering us a huge amount of interesting features, more than most of the current simple video converters. Although it is in English, it is not complicated to move through its menus for those users who are not English speakers.

The best

The best thing about TMPGEnc, without any doubt, is the power that this program has, considering that we will be able to perform actions for which we would normally need two or three applications from a single software. To be more specific, we can say that its support for most of the current video formats, even the highest quality ones, such as DVD editing, is what we liked the most.

The worst

As well as the virtues of TMPGEnc are clear from the start, we can say the same about its flaws. This is an ugly video converter; why deny it? One that could surely improve its design from every point of view. On the other hand, we would have also liked it to be translated into other languages because it has many features that offer that, unless we handle English natively, we will probably not understand some of them.

Rating

TMPGEnc is a highly recommended program for those people who are not satisfied with the application they use right now to generate their DVDs or Blu-Ray, due to its great compatibility with high-quality formats, its multiple customization options of the different menus, and course, having all the necessary codecs from the source.