ContextConvert Pro

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Publisher:	Mystik Media
Version:	1.0
License:	Shareware
Trial Limitations:	15 Days
Price:	$40.00
Operating Systems:	Windows 95/98/ME,Windows NT/2000,Windows XP
File Size:	1.00 MB
Total Views:	4957
Total Downloads:	45
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Release Date:	5/19/2004
Last Update Date:	10/15/2018

ContextConvert Pro Short Description:
Powerful conversion among nearly all multimedia formats from right-click menus.

ContextConvert Pro Long Description:
Convenient, powerful, and highly configurable Windows application for converting among nearly all conceivable multimedia formats.

Tightly integrated with the Windows interface, ContextConvert Pro provides immediate conversion capability from any Windows context (right-click) menu. Simply right-click on any audio, image, or video file, and you can immediately convert it to any other supported format.

You can predefine the folder that will contain your converted files, allowing you to complete your file conversions with a single click. Comprehensive settings and properties are available for complete output control, including audio frequency, bitrate, and channels; AVI codecs; MPEG types (MPEG-1 standard, MPEG-1 with VCD extensions, MPEG-2 standard, MPEG-2 with Super VCD extensions, and MPEG-2 with DVD extensions), WMV profile, image quality, and image color depth.

Multi-page image conversion support is extensive. You can convert from one multi-page format to another, extract multi-page images and create a set of individual files, grab the first page only of a multi-page file, or build a new multi-page file from selected images.

Two-way conversions are supported among Audio CD Tracks (CDA), MP3, WMA, OGG, and WAV. Conversion from VOX, RAW, MPC, G.726, G.723, G.721, AIFF, and AU to any of the above mentioned formats is also supported.

For video, conversions between AVI, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, WMV, and ASF are provided.

Images can be converted in the following formats: ACS, AFP, ANI, AWD, BMP, CAL, CGM, CIN, CLP, CMP, CMX, CRW, CUR, CUT, DCR, DCS, DGN, DIB, DjVu, DRW, DWF, DWG, DXF, ECW, EMF, EPS, EXIF, FAX, FITS, FPX, GBR, GEM, GIF, ICA, ICO, IFF, IMG, ITG, J2K, JBIG, JIF, JPG, JTF, KDC, LMA, LBM, MAC, MDA, MSP, PBM, PCD, PCL, PCT, PCX, PDF, PGM, PNG, PNM, PPM, PSD, PSP, PLT, PTK, RAS, SCT, SFF, SGI, SHP, SID, SMP, SUN, SVG, TIFF, TGA, XBM, XPM, WMZ, and more!

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ContextConvert Pro Reviews by Users

Average Rating: ContextConvert Pro is rated 5 stars.

(5 Stars)

Total Reviews: 2

(5 Stars)

Simple, powerful and user-friendly tool

Reviewed by freedownloadscenter. com on 3/12/2011

ContextConvert Pro is another simple, powerful and user-friendly tool offered by Mystik Media, which makes batch conversions of various multimedia files into any format as easy as a mouse click. Be it an audio, video or image file; a user can convert the same into a different format by right-clicking the mouse on the selected files and then specifying the required format. Simply clicking the icon on the windows taskbar helps configure as per requirement by predefining output folder, facilitating multi-page conversions, specifying attributes and also providing information on file attributes.
Audio - Two-way conversions among Audio CD Tracks (CDA), MP3, WMA, OGG, and WAV.
Video - Conversions between AVI, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, WMV, and ASF are provided.
Images - Supports almost all formats.

For those working with multimedia applications, you will appreciate the worth of this time and effort saving tool.

(5 Stars)

Convenient, powerful, and highly configurable Windows application

Reviewed by Harald Freise on 3/12/2011

They say that ContextConvert Pro is a "convenient, powerful, and highly configurable Windows application for converting among nearly all-conceivable multimedia formats." Well... it is... sort of.

The application installs easily and once launched, an icon is located in your system tray. To call up ContextConvert Pro it's as easy as selecting the file(s) to be converted, right clicking the mouse, then choosing "Convert... " from the windows context sensitive menu. The process starts and runs a progress bar to keep you updated about the state of the conversion.

According to ContextConvert Pro it takes input from image files formatted from ACS, AFP, ANI, AWD, BMP, CAL, CGM, CLP, CMP, CMX, CUR, CUT, DGN, DIB, DRW, DWF, DWG, DXF, EMF, EPS, EXIF, FAX, FPX, GBR, GEM, GIF, ICA, ICO, IFF, IMG, ITG, J2K, JBIG, JIF, JPG, JTF, LMA, LBM, MAC, MDA, MSP, PBM, PCD, PCL, PCT, PCX, PGM, PNG, PNM, PPM, PSD, PLT, PLT2, PTK, RAS, SCT, SGI, SHP, SMP, SUN, SVG, TIFF, TGA, XBM, XPM, XWD, WBMP, WFX, WMF, and WPG to any one of the following output formats: AWD, BMP, CLP, CUR, CUT, EPS, EXF, FPX, GIF, ICO, IFF, J2K, JBG, JPG, PCT, PCX, PNG, PSD, RAS, SCT, SGI, TGA, TIF, multi page TIFF, WMF, WPG, and XPM. Sheesh, some of these image formats I didn't know even existed.

The image conversion I used most often was to convert the JPG files stored by my camera to the TIFF format so that I can manipulate the images without losing any image quality. I would then return them to JPGs prior to placing them on a CDROM disk and have them printed at a local film processing shop. Normally I use Photoshop to do this process. On several files that the file sizes were significantly different after converting them to the TIFF image format. Photoshop generally rendered smaller converted images. Enlarging the files in Photoshop I could not see any discernable difference in the quality of the images generated by ContextConvert Pro although there was a very, very slight colour shift away from the original image.
Sheesh, some of these image formats I didn't know even existed.
On several files that the file sizes were significantly different after converting them to the TIFF image format, Photoshop generally rendered smaller converted images. Enlarging the files in Photoshop I could not see any discernable difference in the quality of the images generated by ContextConvert Pro although there was a very, very slight colour shift away from the original image.

The conversion process is not that speedy. Figure on about 30-40 seconds for each 1MB image using a P4 2.4GB processor with 1GB of memory. When converting multiple images at once, ContextConvert Pro used 99% of the available CPU time and 23,468K of available memory.

Acting as an audio file format converter, it will handle two-way conversions between the currently popular Audio CD Tracks (CDA), MP3, WMA, OGG, and WAV file formats. I could hear no difference in any of these sound files when converted from one file format to another. Then again, I haven't got the freshest set of ears either.

What really caught my eye was the professed ability to convert .AVI video files to MPEG video format. Better than that; it has the ability to convert AVI/MPEG file to the VCD/DVD and DVD MPEG2 formats that are used by most players today that are hooked up to your regular large size home TV screen.

The video conversion process that ContextConvert Pro goes through is actually quite interesting. It separates, or rips; the original file is separated into two files. One is the audio track and the other the images file. They are then recombined into the Video output format of choice. Initially I tried converting a 456MB AVI file into VCD format.

The resulting file was a whopping 872MB. Way too big for any CDROM no matter how much you try over-burn the CD-R. Good thing that most of the processes in ContextConvert Pro are configurable. Using the menus I was able to cut the resultant file down to a more manageable size that fit on a single CD-R, which could be played on my Apex multi-format DVD player while hooked to the TV. Much better than viewing your video file on your tiny computer screen.

One of the things that irritate me is that ContextConvert Pro's web site says it converts ALL popular video formats. Well, it doesn't. Sadly, it doesn't convert one of the most popular desktop video formats. It doesn't recognize or convert the Apple QuickTime video MOV file format to anything.

One quibble is that once installed and registered you can't easily install and transfer your licence to another machine. Actually, I never got the "transfer licence" feature to work at all. It appears that if you wish to use this application on your laptop and desktop, one has to purchase two licences regardless if you don't use them consecutively.

If there is one major criticism that I could find about ContextConvert Pro is that there is little or no useful documentation available and what is available is less than it could be. Not that this is a complex program but the default settings are sometimes more than one needs and the most complete set of options are quite easy to use after a little experimentation.

If you are just looking for an image conversion program there are other more robust available such as IrfanView. If you are looking for an audio or video conversion program then, they too, are available elsewhere. Only ContextConvert Pro combines all three formats applications into one easy to use application, Overall I think that, given the price and capability of ContextConvert Pro, it is a winner.

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