Used by editors such as Chris Gill and multi Oscar-winning Thelma Schoonmaker, Lightworks offers intuitive controls, advanced real time effects, 2K native support with DPX or RED, and multi-camera editing features that remain unmatched.

With wide support for codecs, including EditShare’s Universal Media Files, Lightworks achieves a level of unmatched interoperability by offering seamless media sharing with other popular editing software such as Avid and Final Cut Pro.

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It is a portable tool (no installation needed) with very simple interface, offers the best possible speed without compromising on quality.

To re-encode a video, it doesn’t requires complicated settings, just select a video, and select an output device from the list and then click start button to convert files.

Following are some of the output device types it supports: Apple TV, BlackBerry iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch, Nexus One, Nokia E71, Nokia N900, Playstation 3, PSP, X-Box 360, Youtube HD, ZuneHD.

You can download EncodeHD at the source.

That’s four times bigger than the current maximum resolution of consumer television and Blu-Ray movies, something really huge!

However, to play a YouTube video at 4K resolution, we require a very fast computer with ultra-fast high-speed broadband connections. Just try this 4k videos [Via]

iSkysoft FLV Converter might be a right choice. With this tool, most video formats (including HD videos) can be converted to FLV video or FLV video can be converted to popular video formats.

It has powerful editing features. You can crop, clip, adjust video effect, and add watermark and plug-in subtitle to your video.

It helps you get tailor-made video/audio for uploading onto YouTube or transferring to your portable devices.

iSkysoft FLV Converter normally costs $25, but under a promotion now you can download it free (Free for three months, expired on September 1st, 2010).

iSkysoft FLV Converter supports Windows XP/Vista/7. More information and download at source.

Here is a simple and lightweight solution to download videos from YouTube which works well on all major browsers including Google Chrome, Safari, Firefox, Internet Explorer and Opera.

The script adds an option to download YouTube videos as MP4 (HD) and FLV files. However, some browsers like Firefox and IE requires third party extension to work the script.

The script should work in:
- Firefox – install Greasemonkey first
- Google Chrome – no plug-in required
- Opera – no plug-in required
- Safari – install GreaseKit first)
- Internet Explorer – RequiredIE7Pro.

You can download the video in MP4 360p, 720p (HD), 1080p (HD) and FLV (FLV 360p, 480p) formats. Interested users can install the script on your browser from here.

As most HD videos available online are in MKV format, you required a special player or an add-on for playing MKV videos.

Here is an add-in from Divx for Windows 7 that enables Windows 7 users to play video which are in MKV format (DivX Plus HD (H.264/MKV).

Moreover the software has also a shell extension that provides MKV videos thumbnail images and detailed file information in Windows explorer for an enhanced experience.

According to Divx, The advantage of enabling MKV file support for Windows7 is, it include the ability to use hardware acceleration for H.264 video decoding via the system H.264 decoder (where supported) as well as adding support for serving both DivX and DivX Plus HD video through Windows Media Center Extenders, like the Xbox 360, Playstation 3, etc.

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