CinemaForge 2.0.5

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Editor's Rating:
4.0 stars
Average User Rating:
3.5 stars (out of 192 votes) Rate it!
Downloads:
1,127,888
Requirements:
Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP/2003 Server
Limitations:
Video hosting disabled
Date Added:
January 29, 2006
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Publisher's description of CinemaForge 2.0.5

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CinemaForge is a video- and audio-conversion and hosting utility. The application supports Flash (SWF), Flash (FLV), Motion Pictures Group (MPEG), Audio Video Interleaved (AVI), Window Media Video (WMV), Real Video (RM), QuickTime (MOV), Advanced Streaming Format (ASF), and JPEG (thumbnails). You quickly can save and load presets. It has a nice ffmpeg GUI written in MediaForge. The application has support for deinterlace, duration, cropping, automatic thumbnails, and MediaForge Plaza publishing. You can build movies from still images, and it includes advanced alpha-channel transitions between slides.

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Editor's review of CinemaForge 2.0.5

4.0 stars

This combination video-conversion and creation tool boasts good speed and a nice set of features. CinemaForge's polished interface is both handsome and rather simple to understand. As a video converter, the application supports all expected formats, including SWF, WMV, AVI, and MOV. You also can choose to accompany any video with audio files of your choice rather than the original sound. When you click the digital-camera icon next to the File Input box, you'll be able to browse your computer for still images to compile a video file. If you choose to perform this action, you can apply a few transition effects, determine the image interval, and add your own music files. Although CinemaForge was quick to generate a slide-show video, the audio came out sounding much muddier than the original file did, even when we upped the bit rate. Elsewhere, the program lets you tweak certain aspects of your new video, including frame rate and quality. You also can choose to crop videos, apply a deinterlacing filter, and upload videos to the Web (if you have a CinemaForge account). We should note the program can't be uninstalled by traditional means; instead, you have to click the question-mark icon on the main interface. In spite of the aforementioned quirks, CinemaForge is overall a solid piece of software.

User reviews of CinemaForge 2.0.5

Average user rating: 3.5 stars out of 192 votes
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4 stars

5 out of 7 people found this review helpful

Version: CinemaForge 2.0.5

"well..."

by William Lineberger on November 10, 2006

Pros: It turned out to be one of the fastest and easiest installs I've ever used.

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4 stars

3 out of 5 people found this review helpful

Version: CinemaForge 2.0.5

"good, could be better"

by GOGAS_7 on July 28, 2006

Pros: good converter, many different files to choose from including mpeg, wmv, rm, mov and avi.

Cons: takes a while to convert, especially for bigger videos. recommended for the smaller videos with a shorter length i.e short clips. like others had said, no uninstall tool (and add/remove programs doesnt find it either). difficult to figure out if you are a beginner.

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3 stars

0 out of 1 people found this review helpful

Version: CinemaForge 2.0.5

"A little bit slow but okay converter."

by Jason38 on July 6, 2006

Pros: -Converts a whole range of media files

Cons: -slow opening
-okay converting speed but not super fast
-when converting from .flv to .wmv and then play it on Windows Media Player or RealPlayer, it doesn't seek properly.
-Don't really like layout and buttons are hard to understand if you are a beginner.

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4 stars

0 out of 7 people found this review helpful

Version: CinemaForge 2.0.5

"good but not the best"

by Platy Hill Huckabee on November 9, 2006

Pros: good but not the best

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1 stars

2 out of 2 people found this review helpful

Version: CinemaForge 2.0.5

"Better options elsewhere"

by Eptin on December 19, 2006

Cons: There are two issues I take with this product:

- Even when the settings have been meticulously set, the end video does not always turn out well. Even when I set the "frame size" to "same", it takes my 320x240 input video and turns it into a 320x320 video. No good!

- By far the largest issue is the non-standard GUI. Operating Systems have GUI standards for a reason! (E.G. how do I know that that checkbox is actually checked? Maybe that's what it looks like when it's unchecked..) First, an installation program with no "cancel" button is a very bad sign. Secondly, many of the buttons do not look like buttons, or are hidden (it took me forever to find where I can change the output format!). To top it all off, having an animation of a stick-figure pouting as a progress bar is not my idea of professionalism. I was looking for an inexpensive alternative to Sorenson Squeeze... preferably something that could convert FLV, WMV, and Realplayer files to MPEG4, but I didn't find a good replacement here.

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