We are swamped with piles of video cassette tapes containing videos of our trips and special occasions. I once asked my husband when he will start editing them and the only answer I get was “when I have the time”. Sometimes when he start to upload them to his computer and try to edit them, he complained that he can’t find a software he can be comfortable with. When I unpacked all our moving boxes, I saw the tapes again and asked him to really start editing them. Together we search for a good video editor and we stumbled upon Blaze Media Pro.

It’s an all in one multimedia application that works as a video converter, audio converter, video and audio editor, dvd ripper, and burner. It’s cool because for amateurs like my husband, this software is user friendly and easy to use. Other advanced features include video capture, video creation, combining, and extraction, video editing, copying of music CDs, audio and video merge (joining), MusicID audio recognition, lyrics search, audio tag editing, FreeDB support, and more. The audio content of video files can be extracted and saved to sound files, and frames can also be extracted to images files in batch mode. Video files can also be created from still frame images and/or other videos. Formats supported for audio conversion include CD, MP3, WAV, WMA, OGG, MPEG-4, AIFF, M4A, AAC, AC3, FLAC, and ALAC, and two-way conversions among MPEG-1, MPEG-2, AVI, WMV, ASF, Flash (SWF and FLV), iPod, PSP, 3GP, and MOV are available for video. MPEG options are available for VCD, SVCD, and DVD compliant output.

With all these features, I have to say that the software is cheaply priced at 50$. Although there is a lot of free similar software online, finding one that works like the Blaze Media Pro can be very difficult. For the skeptics, there is a 15 days trail version of the software you can download to help you decide whether to buy it or not.