Axara Video Converter is a multipurpose package for dvd ripping, audio and video converting and editing and disc burning.

It can rip and convert many videos into different formats for almost any media, including portable devices like Apple iPod, Sony PSP, Creative Zen, Microsoft Zune and mobile phones, DVD and other standalone players.

One very useful option is the included Video Downloader, which can easily download and convert videos from popular sites as YouTube, Yahoo Video and Google Video.

Pros:

• Many audio and video editing and converting tools included in one convenient package, great for almost any conversion job.
• Lots of nicely categorized profiles, for almost any device.

• Included Internet video downloader can save files from major video sites, including YouTube (high quality version, if available), Google Video, AOL Video, Metacafe and others.
• The converter tool can merge all the files from the conversion list into a single output video.
• The editor tool can save snapshot from movie, can export the audio track, can add markers in order to cut smaller portions from the original video.

• Advanced settings for all profiles, audio and video codec are available.

Cons:

• All videos from the conversion list are converted to the same format. If you need some videos converted to one format and some to other format, you need to make several separate conversions, one for each format.
• There are no filters like brightness/contrast or special effects to apply to the videos.
• The converter tool can't add hardcoded subtitles, only regular subtitles to DVD Video.