![]() ![]() How about power users? The main feature of Image Converter is the MP4 creation system, and that's what PSP owners are most interested in it for. Of course, you can still manually move your media onto your PSP, but what's the point of that? For one, everything is replaced in an awkward directory outside of the standard "My Documents" folder (which doesn't automatically appear in the "Add to the List" listing), and two, it makes easy-to-use software not at all easy to use. According to the application, if you want to put a half-hour MP4 video on your PSP, you're supposed to leave your PSP on the whole time while it is compressing the video - the smart way to go would have been to compress to your computer and then click the stuff you want to synch up on PSP, but it doesn't work that way. And maybe most strange of all, you can't move stuff from the converted/tranfer folder to the "To Be Transfered" pile. You can't transfer folders worth of stuff, only single files out of folders (you also can't make folders on the destination. ![]() When you click on a directory, it auto-generates thumbnails that can take forever to load if you have a folder stuffed full of media (it can also take eons to load the media you want to include into the queue - and that's before it ever starts compressing.) You can't queue both movies and photos at the same time - if you just hop in and click "Add to the List" expecting to dump everything and go, it doesn't work that way. Microsoft's Windows Media Player is designed to auto-scan your computer for pictures and videos and stuff to plug in, something Image Converter should have had. If you don't know where your files are, however, it can be a pain for computer-phobes. ![]() Adding files to the system is fairly simple - either click "Add to the list" or drag-and-drop files in. If you don't already know that your PSP is assigned to the E or F drive, you're stuck with guessing, and if you do know things like that, it's easier to just drag-and-drop from your folders than to run this application and do all the same work inside of it.Īgain, the main call for spending $20 on this program, aside from the video conversion feature, would have been consumer-level ease of use. And it doesn't scan to recognize your PSP as a PSP - this software is made to be idiot-proof for consumers to toss pictures on their cameras and PDAs, but the "Transfer To" mode has just a pulldown for directories. The Photo mode, for instance, does not recognize the Photo folder on your PSP's Memory Stick (it dumps everything into a separate digital camera directory, which your PSP at least can find.) It also doesn't have any way to customize video for the PSP's 16x9 screen, since every one of the locked settings is made for 4x3 pictures. The problems begin, however, when you realize that this software is not configured for PSP - it won't recognize standard directories on the PSP, and its features are not customized for the system. The Image Converter 2 Interface *Click for bigger image And if it were configured to do well the basic operations it offers, we might have recommended it despite freeware and shareware applications already competing on the market. At $19.99, it would seem to be a reasonably priced consumer-level video conversion application. The software can be used to convert videos to the MPEG4 format, as well as reconfigure pictures on your computer to better fit portable hardware (both in terms of file size and dimension.) It supports conversion of files that are formatted for AVI, MPEG1/2/4, Quicktime, WMV, plus Sony's "Giga Pocket" and other Vaio custom formats for video, and can take in BMP, GIF, JPEG, PGP and PNG pictures. Sony's Image Converter 2 (currently available on the Sony Style website) is a conversion tool originally designed for multimedia cameras, camcorders and Clie PDA units. The truth is, the official software is just about everything done wrong. But back when the Japanese launch was in full tizzy, Sony's Image Converter 2 was the big hope for doing things the best way. When people compressed their own MP4 video on current H.264 compressors, the video would not play on the system even when the directory structure was figured out.īy the time the PSP arrived on North American shores, the video situation was worked out as best as possible - bootleg applications came out that made it all relatively easy to compress media for the machine, and some tricky hack-work made for clips that overcame some of the system's current limitations. There was no "Video" folder amongst the "Music" and "Photo" folders in the PSP's standard Memory Stick set-up. The only help was a link to a Memory Stick webpage, which, at the time, was only in Japanese. ![]() There was no software inside the PSP package to let you make your own videos. ![]()
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