FormatFactory – A multifunctional Media Converter

These days the internet has transformed itself into a large source of media content (apart from other things), be it video, audio or images. However with so many media formats, it often becomes necessary to be able to convert from one type to the other.

FormatFactory is one such tool that can assist you in most of your media conversion needs.

FormatFactory is a multifunctional media converter that supports:

    Video Conversion:
    From all formats to MP4/3GP/MPG/AVI/WMV/FLV/SWF.

    Audio Conversion:
    From all formats to MP3/WMA/MMF/AMR/OGG/M4A/WAV.

    Image Conversion:
    From all to JPG/BMP/PNG/TIF/ICO/PCX/TGA.

Using FormatFactory you can not only convert between all the various formats but you can also perform certain other functions like reducing multimedia file sizes. This can be done by shortening the video/audio (by changing the duration) or by changing the quality with which you want to encode/convert.

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You can also attempt to repair damaged audio and video files that just won’t play in your players.

FormatFactory has a special section for converting media files specially for your portable players. FormatFactory allows you to convert your media files to formats supported by your iPod, iPhone, Zune, PSP, BlackBerry and 3GP for supported devices

media converter software

Last but not least you can use it to rip CD/DVDs to video files or convert them to ISO images.

convert DVD to ISO file

Usage:

 

  • 1. Download and complete the simple installation.
  • 2. Choose the category and file format you want to convert to from the side bar.
  • 3. Add in the desired files. Optionally you can change the output settings (click on output settings).

  • 4. Once you have them all queued up hit the start button.

  • You can also play with the options to tweak the overall settings and output folder for all your conversions.

Let us know what you think of FormatFactory in the comments. Do you have another preferred program for your media file conversion needs?

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Varun Kashyap

I am Varun Kashyap from India. I am passionate about Computers, Programming, Internet and the Technologies that drive them. I love programming and often I am working on projects in Java, PHP, AJAX etc.

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  • heart

    I have heard only good things from FF.

    but as long as Any Video Converter is sufficient for everything I need, I see no reason to turn to FF (unless the conversion speed is higher).
    http://www.any-video-converter.com/products/for_video_free/

  • http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/author/kenburkes/ Ken Burkes

    I really enjoy using YouConvertIt since I like web applications a lot but FomartFactory also seems to be a great tool to use on my desktop. Thanks a bunch for the suggestion. Can’t wait to try it out!

  • http://www.KasiViswanath.com Kasi Viswanath

    Is this superior to SUPER which too converts from anything to anything. SUPER has been for a long time in the scene though. http://www.erightsoft.com/SUPER.html

  • http://eng.fidgee.com Olivier

    It looks like a good tools in the media jungle.

    Post linked on http://eng.fidgee.com – Feeds from the Geek Side

  • http://masontechbeat.blogspot.com Jimmy Rogers

    I may have to give this a try…it’s nice to just see everything bundled together.

  • http://www.testingcorner.net suresh

    I am down loading and can give you feed back soon.
    Any way thank you for the link.

  • gabe565

    I’ve always used http://media-convert.com, but this application looks nice! And the best thing: it’s free!

  • http://www.shaikhtaufiq.com Taufiq

    a very useful tool…highly recommended.

  • http://www.pixeline.be/blog/ pixeline

    yeah, been using FF for a while. Like it, but it misses some options like finetuning the quality and also the generated filename pattern. i still prefer SUPER for tricky conversion jobs, which is also much faster in processing. But FF is still young in development, so i keep it in my toolbox for the time being…

  • Chris

    Excellent, I was wondering if there was ever an article on FF, I love this app.

    It’s awesome, I think I’ve been using it since 2008

    I usually just install it into my flash drive for portability, which is very convenient.

  • gobo

    FormatFactory converts video, audio, and pictures where any video converter just does videos. Also formatfactory can combine and trim videos.

    super used to be good back in the day, but it has been surpassed by ff and avc on windows. I see super’s website still requires you to have a phd in order to find the download link.

  • RonCam

    Format Factory says it will repair damaged audio-video files, but there is no selection for this. Haven´t been able to find anywhere on the Internet where anyone has said exactly ¨how to¨ for this feature. Any advice here?