An extremely useful and user friendly toolkit solution for all your audio and video needs. With Kate`s Video Toolkit 2.49 you can easily convert, cut, join, mix, apply effects and play all your audio and video files. It is a software for a person with serious interests in mixing media as well as for a person looking for some plain fun.

Pros: Kate`s Video Toolkit 2.49 is an all-in-one solution for all your audio and video needs. With this you can convert and change audios/videos from one format to other, cut and extract a part of the audio/video file and save it in the same or a different format, join multiple audios/videos of same or different format and save it as a single audio/video file. You can also mix multiple audio and video into one file, apply various different transitions on an existing video as well as play all the audio/video formats supported by windows media player, quick time player and DVD players. It has a simple and easy to use self explanatory interface.

It supports a wide variety of formats such as AVI, WMV, MOV, DIVX, ASF, 3GP, MP4, MPEG1, MPEG2, VCD-PAL, VCD-NTSC, SVCD-PAL, SVCD-NTSC, DVD-PAL, DVD-NTSC and other formats. One can experiment with different combinations of over 70, 3D transitions and over 50 marvelous effects to be used. One of the most helpful features of this software is the built-in-player with the help of which you can view or listen to the file before saving the changes made by you. The player also allows you to set the start/end points of the portion you want to extract and convert. It changes the frame size, frame aspect ratio, video compression codec and audio compression codec.

The software is very simple to download and install and it is compatible with Windows Vista, XP, 2003 and 2000.

Cons: No negative issues.

Overall: A user friendly and extremely useful application rates a 5 star.