Movie Shrink & Burn 3.0 - Anyone Familiar With It?

[AllenM]

This is a product from Ashampoo of Germany. It converts video to a variety of formats, compresses video so that it will fit on a single 4.7 MB DVD, and burns it to standard DVD or Blu-ray disc. It sells for $50.00 on their web site but for a limited time I can buy it for $12.99 since I have another of their products unrelated to video. I downloaded the 30 day trial version today which is fully functional. Just wondering if anyone knows anything about the company or the quality of their video products.

The reason it caught my eye is the fact that in addition to converting and burning video it also compresses it, all in one program. I usually use DVD Shrink for compressing but it would be nice to have everything in one program, provided the quality is there.

[guns1inger]

I doubt the quality is any better than DVD Rebuilder, and probably not much better than Shrink with Deep Analysis and AEC turned on. For $50 is doesn't seem worth the effort when you still have to rip commercial discs with another program.

[AllenM]

Hi guns1inger,

Thanks for your assessment of Move Shrink & Burn. I would not have had to pay $50.00 for it since they had made me a special offer of $12.99. But after my experience with the software last evening, I don't think it's worth even that much. I tried to convert an .avi file and it came back with a message indicating that it needed an additional codec or some other file that wasn't on my system. So I just closed it and used the program that I usually use to convert video. It converted the file with no problem. I tried another conversion program from Ashampoo a few weeks ago and again had problems. The file that it converted was not viewable. Again I used another program and obtained the desired results. So I would say that their software is definitely not a quality product and I won't be trying out anymore of them.

I'm always willing to give a new product or a new vendor a chance but so far each Ashampoo video product that I have tried has proven unsatisfactory and of rather poor quality.