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WinX HD Video Converter Review

WinX HD Video Converter is a free GPU-accelerated HD/4K Video Converter and online video downloader with support for virtually any format and video hosting website.

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Whether you need to convert or merge existing video files or just want to rip your favorite YouTube videos for watching them offline – WinX Video Converter can master all those tasks with just a few clicks.

We have put the freeware WinX Video Converter to the test to find out if can hold up to its promise of being that fast and versatile as they say. WinX Video Converter is available for free Windows and macOS.

Input source selection

Getting started with WinX Video Converter is straightforward. You either select a local video file from your PC, online videos, or pictures as an input source in case you want to create a slide-show video from a set of images.

WinX Video Converter - Select Source

When using the video downloader, you will have to paste the respective video URL from YouTube or any other supported site.

WinX Video Converter - paste URL

Besides YouTube, WinX Video Converter supports more than 1000 other video sites, including Vevo, Vimeo, Dailymotion, , Break, and Metacafe.

WinX Video Converter - supported video sites

For some sites such as YouTube, you will be able to select one of the various online versions of your video for downloading. If you want WinX Video Converter to also convert the video into another format, you have to click “Auto convert” in this selection dialogue.

WinX Video Converter - Video Download - select source format and quality

Output Profiles and Settings

Then you can choose one out of countless presets for different devices and formats and decide if you prefer extra fast or high-quality conversion.

WinX Video Converter - Video Download - select output profile

WinX Video Converter supports batch processing. You can download and/or convert many videos at once and even merge them into one single file. After adding videos, you can change the conversion settings for each one by clicking on the cogwheel symbol.

WinX Video Converter - Video Download - conversion settings

There you can change video quality settings such as codec, frame rate, bit rate, resolution, audio setting, or if needed the previously selected output profile.

WinX Video Converter - Output Profile

If needed you can use the built-in editor to trim, crop or expand the source videos and even add subtitle files for embedding them in the output video.

WinX Video Converter - Editor

If you chose pictures as source files you can add background music and select interval or overall time for your video slideshow.

WinX Video Converter - Editor - slideshow video settings

Downloading/Converting

Clicking the big RUN button on the lower right starts the download/conversion-procedure. You might want to activate the “Hardware Acceleration” options as this will make WinX Video Converter substantially faster. If you want to “Merge” your videos into just one file, you will have to mark the respective checkbox.

WinX Video Converter - start download and conversion

A status dialogue will show you the current progress and give you a remaining time estimate. If your PC has a high-end GPU, conversion can be up to 47 times faster. If you are converting many longer videos at once and without GPU , you might want the option “Shut down computer when conversion completed” comes in handy.

WinX Video Converter - download and conversion status

Verdict

WinX Video Converter is a straightforward freeware video downloader/converter with nice extra features such as GPU support, slideshow creation, and merging. If you often download online videos its broad support of basically all video sites is very helpful. Many competitors offer much less and focus just on YouTube and at best offer Vimeo and a few other bigger video sites extra.

Last Updated on July 27, 2021 10:10 am CEST

Markus Kasanmascheff
Markus Kasanmascheff
Markus has been covering the tech industry for more than 15 years. He is holding a Master´s degree in International Economics and is the founder and managing editor of Winbuzzer.com.

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