Nowadays, everyone can try themselves as videomakers and directors even without buying a professional camera. Nevertheless, it is important to remember about the basics. Video converters can be of two types - software and hardware. Software video converters are known as specific programs used for editing. There is a plenty of software developed for this purpose, as a rule, are not much complicated to cope with. Just remember that images during recording and editing are compressed for better storage and quality is lost. Hardware video converters are used for convert different types of signals in practice. This is a solution for those, who need to connect old monitor to a new computer or vice versa. Video converters transform such video formats as VGA to DVI, DVI to VGA, HDMI to DVI, or VGA to composite video.