Free Studio 2013

If you like to listen to music on your mobile phone or to watch movies (or clips) on your iPhone, iPod, PSP or any other mobile device, you'll probably have to convert a media file to another format, at least once in a while. To do so, you need a media converter for video files, a converter for audio files and at least a third program in case you want to burn or rip a CD or DVD. In any of the three scenarios, DVDVideoSoft Free Studio can help you out.

Free Studio is a free package of tools that combines various converters and other tools (such as audio editor or CD/DVD ripper and burner) for media files such as video, audio and even pictures. This means that in this program you can find not only tools to convert whatever media file you might need to convert, but also tools to download and convert YouTube videos, to burn and rip CDs and DVDs, to extract music from audio CDs and even to manipulate images. Careful, though with the copyrighted content.

All the tools are divided into eighth different categories: YouTube; Mp3 & Audio; CD, DVD, BD (BluRay); DVD & Video; Photo & Images; Mobiles; Apple Devices; and finally, 3D. Altogether, the package contains 41 free tools and each and every program is useful in its own way. I'm going to list just a few programs which I consider useful to me: Free DVD Video Burner, Free Audio Dub, Free Image Convert and Resize and Video to Android Converter.

Let's say you want to save a YouTube song on your iPhone. We're going to use first an application called 'Free YouTube Download' (can be found into the YouTube category) to download the video from the website. Then, we're going to use an app called 'YouTube To Mp3' (can be found into the Mp3 & Audio category) to convert the video file which we downloaded into an audio file supported by the phone.

Pluses: Free; very easy and straightforward interface;

Drawbacks / flaws:

In conclusion: In my opinion, Free Studio is a very handy application that bundles multiple converters and other tools into one great program.

version reviewed: 5.0.3