InterVideo iVideoToGo Platinum

You don’t buy a program like iVideoToGo because it can transfer video to an iPod or PSP. A growing number of programs offer this ability. You buy such a program for how quickly it does this, as well as its price, how it handles, and what else it offers. At $29.95, iVTG is no lemon.

Like Partition Manager’s installation, iVTG’s raised one gripe, namely an invitation to anonymously transfer data to InterVideo’s Information Service Program that was defaulted to yes, as well as a Google Desktop installation. I appreciate the offers, just not the assumption my answer is “yes.” Otherwise, testing went smoothly on a 3.2GHz Intel P4 WinXP system with 1GB of RAM and 150GB drive and an Athlon 64 3700+ WinXP system with 2GB of RAM and 80GB drive.

If you’ve used InterVideo’s PowerDVD or other software, you have an idea of how iVTG handles. iVTG claims to put video on your portable device in three easy steps, which it does. Convert DVD, Convert File, and Copy To Go buttons get you started. Say you want to convert a DVD to MPEG-4 video to put on an iPod. Just select the source drive (copy-protected DVDs won’t work), destination folder, and format (MPEG-4 or H.264 variations). It’s that easy.

I converted a 4.07GB 1:07 (hour:minutes) DVD to a 309MB 320 x 240 MPEG-4 iPod video in under 40 minutes on the AMD machine. The same DVD converted to a 196MB 320 x 240 MPEG-4 PSP video in less than 30 minutes. When iVTG finished, it offered to transfer the video right away to the player. If you don’t, iVTG conveniently makes the video available from Copy To Go, where you can configure transfers for later (handy for overnight copying).

iVTG handles ASF, AVI, DivX AVI/Media, DVR-MS, MPG, WMV, and other files. You can adjust file sizes up to 512 x 384 (quality expectedly suffered in
my tests, though), preview video, create chapters, download Web videos from within iVTG, and trim clips. Importing and batch converting individual files was a breeze, but you’ll want to edit your video elsewhere, as iVTG’s strength is performing easy and quick transfers.

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