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Free AVI Video Converter for Windows

  • Free

  • In English
  • V 5.16.0
  • 3.8

    (13)
  • Security Status

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Free Multimedia Converter that Should Just Keep Converting

DVDVideoMedia’s Free AVI Video Converter is a free and powerful all-in-one video converter program that allows you to modify and convert audio and video into AVI. This multimedia software also functions as an in-house video editor, so you don’t need to boot up another program.

Packed Into One

The AVI format stands for Audio Video Interleave, a multimedia container format introduced by Microsoft back in 1992 as part of its Video for Windows software. AVI files can contain both audio and video data in a single file container allowing synchronous audio-with-video playback. As such, AVI has become one of the most popular video formats around that it is unsurprising to see it as one of the output choices in most video converters. 

However, AVI is typically less compressed than other, more popular formats like MOV and MPEG. This means that an AVI file will be larger than the same file in one of those more compressed formats. Thus, it can be tricky to convert other formats to AVI itself. More so, AVI files—which end with a .avi extension— normally relies on various video and audio codecs for it to play properly. Hence, it requires special multimedia players. If you don't want to use a separate video player, you would need to convert your AVI file to another playable format. 

Sometimes, you can convert a file by just opening it in a video player and then saving it to another format. However, this isn't the case with most AVI players. That is why it is very fortunate that a lot of video converters cater to the AVI format. 

Can Turn Into Many

True to its name, Free AVI Video Converter is free to download and use. It supports many different formats, including DivX, MPEG2/MPEG-4 TS HD, HD WMV, FLV, AVCHD, and H.264/MPEG-4 AVC, which means you can convert the mentioned formats to AVI and vice versa. Furthermore, you can convert your HD-formatted videos to SD. You can even work on the video encoding and decoding to make high-definition videos. By converting, you can play your files using various multimedia devices, so you don’t have to download any more players for specific formats. These can range from smartphones to tablets to even gaming consoles. 

Free AVI Video Converter also doubles as a video editor program, allowing you to split, clip, merge, and crop scenes from videos. You can even extract pictures and audio using its editing tools and make your video right there on the converter’s interface. This program also allows conversion of AVI to MP3 for extracted sound, and there are a ton of format output choices for audio, as well.

Convert Only

Surprisingly, Free AVI Video Converter offers many features that allow various actions for your videos. As a converter, it is highly decent. However, the same cannot be said to its other features. When you want to edit your converted video, you're better off with other editing apps. Free AVI Video Converter doesn’t do well outside of conversion despite the inclusion of other features, so you should just stick to converting when using this program.

PROS

  • Simple interface
  • User-friendly
  • Doubles as a video editor
  • Can tweak video parameters for conversion

CONS

  • Functions are too basic
  • Editing tools aren’t great
  • Crashes sometimes
  • Preview function is wonky

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Free AVI Video Converter for PC

  • Free

  • In English
  • V 5.16.0
  • 3.8

    (13)
  • Security Status


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