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Blaze Media Player Pro

Websites: Homepage
Category: Audio/Video
Manufacturer: Mystik Media
Platform:
Geek Ranking:
4
User Overall Ranking:

The Good:
Amazing amount of features and utilities for audio and video all in one package

The Bad:
Video conversion file types somewhat lacking

Installation: 8 / 10
Ease of Use: 8 / 10
Features: 9 / 10
Performance: 8 / 10
Product Support: 8 / 10

Overview

Blaze Media Player Pro is a suite that contains tons of features to handle all of your multi-media needs.  It contains an Audio and Video Converter, Media Editor, Disc Burner, DVD and CD Ripper, Batch Video Processing and much more.  If you want to use it to convert video it will It can convert AVI to MPEG, convert MPEG to AVI, convert MP3 to WAV, convert WAV to MP3, convert WMA to MP3, convert WMA to WAV, convert WMA to MP3, convert WAV to WMA, convert MP3 to WMA, and will act as a MP3, WMA, MPEG, and AVI … and that is just what the video converter can do.

Review

Installation – 8

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Features – 9

The amount of features to edit your music and videos is truly remarkable.  Everything is housed in a small, lightweight and easy to use interface.

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Convert audio files from several of the most common formats to MP3, WAV, OGG and more.

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Convert various video formats to put on an iPod or other portable media devices.

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Audio Recorder that allows you to record external audio and choose from various output formats.

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Full featured Audio Editor.

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Easily edit your home videos with the Video Editor with a bunch of various affects.

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Ease of Use – 8

A nicely laid out intuitive interface lets you easily navigate Blaze and keyboard shortcuts are also possible.

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When you start a task a menu for just that task appears so there is not any navigating through sub files to get things done.

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Performance – 8

Everything performed very well on our dual core Windows 7 PC.  The amount of resources it takes up will vary depending on what task you’re doing for example video conversion tasks versus audio…but overall everything ran pretty smoothly.

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Conclusion

Blaze is a Swiss army knife for multimedia for conversions, burning, editing, and more.  You would need to have many different applications to do what Blaze does all in one small convenient and easy to use app.  If you want a complete suite that will handle all of your multimedia needs then Blaze Media Pro is a good choice.  They offer a free 15 day trial and is $50 dollars after that for a full license.  It will work on all versions of Windows 98 through Vista and we were able to successfully run it on Windows 7.

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Rating

  • Installation: 8
  • Ease of Use: 8
  • Features: 9
  • Performance: 8
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This product was reviewed on 08/19/09.

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