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I’ve spent a little time with Blaze Media Pro over the past week exploring what this media editing suite can do.  It’s a pretty comprehensive suite of tools for Windows users, covering everything from ripping and burning both audio and video to editing tools that allow you to splice, cut and paste.  It can convert from just about every popular format to just about every other popular format. I tested out a few of the functions (believe me, there are a lot of things this software can do) that were important to me.

I’ve used it as an audio converter, to move a bunch of ogg files to MP3 for use on my iPod.  The process was very smooth and fairly simple.  Just select the tracks you want to convert, choose what you want to convert them too and click the convert button.

Blaze handles video conversion as well, and was very helpful at converting my home videos into a format viewable on my iPod.  I also took some older movies I had in WMV format and converted them to AVI for easy use on my Linux box.

Lastly, I wanted to archive a few DVDs that I had laying about, as well as convert them into a format I could use on my iPod.  The DVD Ripper utility is very intuitive – allowing you to rip select portions of a DVD (either titles, or by time, say the first 45 minutes of a select title).

Other functionality includes audio editing, burning your CDs, DVDs, VCDs and SVCDs, and support for full screen playback of your media. If Blaze MP is one thing, it’s a comprehensive bunch of software that will handle all of your media.  I like having to only use one piece of software to do just about everything, including light video editing.

Here’s a complete list of what it handles:

Formats supported for audio conversion include CD, MP3, WAV, WMA, OGG, MPEG-4, AIFF, M4A, AAC, AC3, FLAC, and ALAC, and two-way conversions among MPEG-1, MPEG-2, AVI, WMV, ASF, Flash (SWF and FLV), iPod, PSP, 3GP, and MOV are available for video. MPEG options are available for VCD, SVCD, and DVD compliant output. DVD ripping, and audio compression functionality are also present. When converting from audio CD, track information can be dynamically downloaded from the CDDB and used to automatically name saved files.

Video editing is available for AVI (uncompressed), AVI (compressed using any available codec), MPEG-1, MPEG-2, WMV, and ASF. Comprehensive video editing operations are provided (delete frame, delete selection, crop, resize, rotate, mirror, flip, trim, text overlay, adjust audio volume, etc.). In addition, an extensive list of over 30 effects and color adjustment operations allow for powerful video enhancement and alternation. WAV, WMA, and MP3 audio files can be inserted into the video or extracted from the video; and BMP, GIF, JPG, PCX, PNG, RAS, PPM, TGA, and TIF are the supported image formats that can be inserted or extracted.

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