DVDFab is great! Unifab is trash.
DVDFab is great! Unifab is trash. So this is going to be a review of my latest attempt to use Unifab. I see they fixed a thousand bugs so far, I have my hopes up! I purchased a lifetime License years back, A long time before Unifab ever existed, I was able to use DVD Fab for converting and it did a decent job. Ever Since Unifab came around as a separate tool, separate download, separate update and all that, it has been. . . . well . . . . buggy beyond use. I mostly used it to down convert videos from my friends that they share to a reasonable size. Some of my friends encode a single TV Show episode to 1920x1080 (1080p) and the episode will be over 2 GiB in size. Naturally I cant long term store many seasons of that. So I down convert it to a reasonable size of approx 500 MiB per file. I can no longer do that with Unifab. There are just too many bugs and limitations now. To start off with, As of today 10/17/2024, I drop a 2GiB file in the Unifab tool and click Format, Even if I click 720p video output and slide the slider ALL THE WAY DOWN TO LOW, The lowest it will output video size is 1.21 GiB even on 720p for a 50 minute TV show episode. I am attempting to convert it to MKV - 480p right now (Super low resolution) and my file only drops to 1.4GiB in size, and when I slide the slider quality to low, I get a minimum of 875mb file size. Thats just ridiculously large for such a tiny format. I just cant get file sizes down to where I need them now using this tool no matter what I select. It has put me in a position where I have to go online and find them already resized by someone else at 1080p and 500mb to get them how I need them now. So basically Unifab has become useless because their focus is on bigger filesizes not smaller ones. Other bugs include things like Dropping a file into Converter, Clicking Settings on a video, Then clicking "Save My Profile" button at the top, When I click it, I can change the name of the new profile, but there is no "OKAY" or "SAVE" button. As a matter of fact, There just are no buttons at all on that box. I can only press the "X" in the upper corner and when I do that, it saves nothing. So you dont make custom profiles now due to bugs. Its just not possible now under the current Unifab. And the most irritating bug of all time is . . . . The "APPLY TO ALL" formatting and settings button just doesnt work at all. I can literally drop a whole season of my favorite TV Show into Unifab, select the first one, make custom fomatting and conversion settings and when I click "APPLY TO ALL" button at the bottom, it closes the settings window and literally does nothing to the other episodes. It has gotten to the point where if i use Unifab for conversion, I just do one episode at a time. Because I can edit only one episode at a time, adding more than that is just risky and waste of time because I cant get the settings to migrate to the other episodes. Also, on a side note, Another bug is that "Encoding Method" 1-pass works so well that it works no matter what you select. Even if you select 2-pass you still get only 1-pass. There is no hope in increasing video quality using 2-pass method. It will do only 1-pass and its done. I probably still have a very old copy of DVDFab 14 or 12 or something. Even though the codecs are old and out of date it does a far better job shrinking file sizes than Unifab does hands down. I might be able to get Nero or some other company to do it if i have to. I just feel like Unifab is a total loss to me. Even though I paid for a lifetime license I have lost the ability to use the tool because of the bugs and problems and the fact that it will only make monster file sizes now. So I still love DVD Fab! Best DVD Ripper and BluRay Ripper on the market! I just need to find a new tool for converting I guess.