The hardest part of maintaining a collection of audio and video files is that quality standard shift from time to time.  The latest and greatest format then could be the last and the least best thing tomorrow.  If you want to keep your library up-to-date then the only way to do so is to convert them into a workable format.

Enter Blaze Media Pro.  Much more than just an audio and video encoder, it’s a powerful All-In-One Multimedia application.  Now you might be thinking that the overbloated OEM software (e.g. Nero Suite) that came with your burner is enough for your needs then you’re in for a surprise.

Looking for that elusive MOV converter or even a decent DVD software? Blaze Media Pro offers conversion, ripping, editing, recording, burning, playback, and much more. It’s powerful and easy to use, something that the guys on the OEM side haven’t quite done right without being so well bloated.  Blaze Media Pro fully supports audio, video, and data CD/DVD burning.

Other advanced features include video capture, video creation, combining, and extraction, video editing, copying of music CDs, audio and video merge (joining), MusicID audio recognition, lyrics search, audio tag editing, FreeDB support, and more. The audio content of video files can be extracted and saved to sound files, and frames can also be extracted to images files in batch mode. Video files can also be created from still frame images and/or other videos.

Here’s a run down of several key features of the product

• video editor
• audio editor
• CD ripper
• CD/DVD burner
• audio recorder
• audio CD copier
• audio converter
• video converter
• video capture
• MPEG encoder and decoder
• MP3 encoder and decoder
• solution to capture protected audio files
• record streaming audio
• perform lyrics search

Supported files include:
Audio: CD, MP3, WAV, WMA, OGG, MPEG-4, AIFF, M4A, AAC, AC3, FLAC, and ALAC,
Video: MPEG-1, MPEG-2, AVI, WMV, ASF, Flash (SWF and FLV), iPod, PSP, 3GP, and MOV
As for disc burning,  MPEG options are available for VCD, SVCD, and DVD compliant output.

One of the more interesting caveats of Blaze Media Pro is the ability to digitize music from cassette tapes or even LP albums, given the proper set of hardware to connect them.

It’s powerful video editing feature is available for AVI (uncompressed), AVI (compressed using any available codec), MPEG-1, MPEG-2, WMV, and ASF. You can delete frames, delete selection, crop, resize, rotate, mirror, flip, trim, text overlay, adjust audio volume, etc.).  On the fun side, you’re not limited to just videos in well, your videos, audio files (WAV, WMA, and MP3) and image files  (BMP, GIF, JPG, PNG, etc) can be inserted into the video or extracted from the video

For more details, check out http://www.blazemp.com/ and you may download a free trial version of Blaze Media Pro.