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We do almost everything with our smartphones and tablets now including swap multimedia fileswith friends. However, as most of us would subsequently be annoyed to find out, different devices require different formats of the same file to be able to play it properly.

Whether it is a video, music or audio clip, or even just image files, to find compatibility you will need a one-size-fits-all super conversion tool.

Adapter is that converter tool to help you convert videos, audio clips and images to popular and less than popular formats. You will never look at a converter tool the same way again.   

Using Adapter

Get adapter here, it is supported on both Windows and Mac platforms, and it is free. For videos, audio and image conversion, you can do batch conversions instead of converting files one by one.

Check out what conversions Adapter can do for you:

• Video to Video
• Video to Audio
• Video to Image
• Audio to Audio
• Image to Image

Video To Video

When converting videos, Adapter lets you pick the platform you want to convert your videos into. By choosing which platform it will convert the video for, the settings will be optimized to suit the chosen platform.

With this feature, even if you don’t know which formats are the right ones, everything is done for you. You can choose to optimize videos for devices by:

• Apple
• Android
• Sony
• Microsoft
• Nintendo
• Blackberry
• Nokia

Time Cropping

Adapter also has a few handy tools like for example, Time Cropping.

Once you have a video that you want to convert, you can choose to crop the sections of the videos you want and ready them for conversion. This way, you need not waste time converting parts of the video that you don’t want included.

Set the starting point of the video and the ending time and the cropping will occur at the start of the video conversion.

Working Within ITunes

For Apple device owners, Adapter allows you to directly convert and save the video to iTunes, so you can sync the video straight into your devices after the conversion.

Formats

According to settings, the converted video will be converted to the format which is compatible with the platform that you set for. But if you want to convert the files individually to other formats, you can.

Adapter can convert videos from and to:

• MPG
• FLV
• SWF
• AVI
• MP4
• MKV
• GIF

Or you can create custom settings.

Video To Audio

If you need to convert a video to audio, Adapter does that too. The created audio files are saved in MP3, OGG, M4A and M4R format. If those don’t work, you can convert it further in the audio section.

Video To Image

Adapter also has this feature where you can export video frames and save it as an image file. If there is any scene from the video that you want screenshot, just click ‘Export Frame’. The image will be saved in JPEG format.

Audio To Audio

As for audio conversion, you can convert the audio to:

• MP3
• M4A
• AC3
• ACC
• WAV
• OGG
• MKA
• M4R

Similar to the feature for ‘video’, for audio you can cut the video and convert it at the same time. And, the converted audio file can be directly saved into iTunes.

And like other converters, you can adjust the settings for sample rate, bit rate, audio channelsand encoder.

Image To Image

Other than converting videos and audio, Adapter converts images too. It can convert images to:

• BMP
• PNG
• GIF
• TIFF
• JPG

There are only minimal and basic settings for images: you can resize the image and adjust the image quality. Most of the time, that’s enough.

Extra: Download Video

Other than converting, Adapter can download videos from sites like YouTube straight from the application. After loading the video, if you press the ‘video’ tab, the downloaded video will be there. With that, you can get it converted straight instead locating the file and putting it into Adapter.

Limitations

As you can see Adapter is a great converter tool that has almost every conversion required figured out, in one application. But as with all tools, there are some minor limitations.

At the time of this writing, conversions aren’t supported for iPhone 5 yet, only up to iPhone 4S. We believe this is easily rectifiable. Another problem has to do with the video download feature – it isn’t actually working. We got the ad downloaded instead of the video plus the built-in browser doesn’t load very smoothly. But we still love Adapter because it is a conversion machine! Would you try it?

With cloud storage, we rarely need to bring or store our files in a thumbdrive or in our devices anymore. Sometimes, however, you need to convert some of the files, but as they are in the Cloud, converting them means needing to download the file into the computer before using a desktop conversion software on it.

Wouldn’t it be easier if there’s a way to convert your files straight from your cloud storage andautomatically save it in your storage after conversion? If you are a user of Google Drive, you might want to check out DriveConverter. 

DriveConverter is a web app which allows you to convert files that you save in Google Drive. The type of files it can convert are documents, images and audio.

Convert Google Drive Files

To start, go to DriveConverter and click on "Convert Files Now" button. It will connect to your Google Drive account and request permission to access your Google Drive account.

After that, you may select and convert Google Drive files right on DriveConverter webpage.

You can also browse to your Google Drive account and select a file that you wish to convert. Right click on the file then click Open With > DriveConverter.

It will ask you for permission to access your Google Drive

After granting permission it will redirect you to the converting page. You will then be asked to choose what format you want to convert the document into. Let’s choose PDF.

Click on Convert and it will start to convert your file. When the converting is done, it will showSave Complete which means you can find your file in your Google Drive. You can also choose to download it into your computer via the Download button.

Convert Newly Uploaded Files

Click on "Convert New Files" and on the left sidebar, click on "Upload". Then, click on Choose files to upload and a directory will open up. Look for your file. Alternatively you can drag and drop the file you want to convert into the space.

After selecting the file, it will bring you to the converting page. Do ensure you tick on "Save to drive when finished?" if you want to save the converted file straight into your Google Drive. Then, click onConvert. That’s it!

Supported File Types

DriveConverter is compatible with documents, audio files and images. For documents, it can convert:

• From DOCX, DOC, RTF, TXT
• To PDF, XML, RTF, HTML, DOC, DOCX, TXT

For spreadsheets, it can convert:

• From XLX, XLSX
• To XLSX, CSV, PDF, TXT, HTML

For images, DriveConverter can convert:

• From PNG, JPG, GIF, BMP, TIFF
• To PNG, JPG, BMP, GIF, TIFF

And as for audio files it can be convert:

• From MP3, MP4, M4A, FLAC, WAV, OGG
• To MP3, M4A, MP4, WAV, FLAC, OGG

Note that you can only convert one file at a time as there is no option for batch converting just yet.