ABC 3GP/MP4 Converter Editor's Review

Watch your movies and clips on mobile devices with this handy converter.

Coming in a well-designed Windows-style user interface ABC Media Studio’s 3GP/MP4 Converter is software for converting videos so they can be viewed on mobile devices, DVD players, iPods and so on. It enables you to convert many codecs (XviD / DivX, H263 and H264) and file formats (MOV, RM, RMVB, MKV, MPEG, VOB, DVD, WMV, AVI, AVS, and ASF) to 3GPP, 3GPP2 and MP4 formats.

This application is free for non-commercial use. It can be downloaded and installed with without easily. Once launched the main display lists your selected videos, showing size, duration, frames per second, format and audio information. In the right-hand panel it shows the output options, so you can control the location to output to, filename, resolution, frame and audio settings.
The conversion process can take place with an open window and an animated progress bar or you can run it in the background.
The Trim Video option shows an editor window to set start and end times for the portion you would like to convert. Making shorter or compressed versions of your favourite movies makes them easy to share

Pro’s: Speed; Preview: Covers lossy or lossless conversions; trim tool.

Con’s: Check that it will handle the formats and codecs you need.

Conclusion: This product did everything we expected it to: it converted or compressed videos quickly and it has a batch setting. There are dozens of products that provide similar functionality. Of them, this is a decent, swift and highly usable piece of software and we have no hesitation in recommending it.