FormatFactory 5.0.1

There are video converters, audio converters, document conversion tools, and then there’s FormatFactory, a comprehensive multimedia and document converter with support for all the most widely used file formats. This all-in-one conversion utility can also rip audio and video from all types of discs, burn ISO files to disc, and even rename files in bulk. It works with task lists that you can save for later reuse.

This versatile multi-format conversion tool has three main assets – its extensive support for a wide variety of file formats, its “task list”-based conversion functionality, and the fact that it is a completely free tool. On the cons side, the only drawback I could find refers to the extreme simplicity of most of its conversions tasks when it comes to configuring the various processes and applying certain advanced settings that are common practice in many similar tools.

The program’s interface is divided into various tabs, each devoted to a media or file type. There are tabs for Video, Audio, Picture, and Document conversion, each of them with some interesting extra tools. Thus, you’ll find a video joiner, an audio mixing tool, or an audio joiner. You can crop video and audio files, and resize, flip, tag, and rotate your image files. When it comes to documents, most processes refer to PDF files, which can be converted to the most common text-based formats, plus the option to extract their images. The remaining tabs are for video and audio extraction and conversion into various file types, and for bulk file renaming. more