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Novus Convert
Launch notes and practical guidance for Novus Convert: 2,400 working routes across 274 documented formats (images, media, documents, ebooks, archives, CAD/3D, and fonts); local compression for 125 same-format inputs; mixed batches; output validation; and honest format boundaries.
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About the Novus Convert thread
File conversion is a category full of sites that will happily accept your upload and rather less happily tell you what happens to it afterwards. Novus Convert takes the other route: 2,400 working conversion routes across 274 formats, all executed in browser memory, with 125 compressors alongside them.
The articles here are as much about the boundaries as the capabilities. Not every format pair is honest: some conversions are lossy in ways that matter, some are theoretically possible but practically useless, and some cannot be done client-side at all. The cluster explains how output validation works (a result is checked for the expected signature or decodability before download unlocks), why mixed batches each keep their own output format, and where the real limits sit on file size and memory.
What this topic covers
- The 2,400-route engine: images including camera RAW, video, audio, documents, ebooks, archives, CAD/3D, and fonts
- Transcoding video and audio locally, and what browser codec support does and does not reach
- Mixed-batch queues where each file keeps its own output format and downloads independently
- Output validation: how a conversion is verified before the download button unlocks
- Honest format boundaries: where lossy is unavoidable and where a conversion is not worth doing
Who it's for
Anyone with a file in the wrong format, teams that cannot upload client material to third-party servers, and developers interested in WebAssembly media pipelines.
6 articles in this thread, newest first. Every one is free to read with no signup.
Beyond the articles: Novus Convert
2,400 working conversion routes, validated locally in the browser. The articles above are commentary; the pages below are the reference material, documentation for how the app works, a tool map listing every surface in it, and step-by-step tutorials.
- Documentation →The full technical reference for Novus Convert: what it does, how it works, and its limits.
- Tool map →Every tool and page in the app, each with a description and a direct link.
- Tutorials →Step-by-step walkthroughs, from a first run through to the advanced workflows.
- Open the app →Free, in your browser, with no signup for the core workflow.
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Novus Convert · Aug 8, 2026
The four ways a file conversion goes wrong, and which ones a converter can catch
What an output-validation gate can prove, what it cannot, and the minute of checking that catches the failure no converter will ever report.
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Novus Convert · Jul 24, 2026
The Novus Convert format-engine expansion: ~1,000 working routes
What a working route means versus a format guide, the browser-local WebAssembly engines behind each family, and why every enabled download is checked first.
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Novus Convert · Jul 17, 2026
Transcoding video and audio locally, with nothing uploaded
How the in-browser FFmpeg engine transcodes video and audio locally, and why that architecture is the right one for private media.
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Novus Convert · Jul 16, 2026
Choosing the right output format in Novus Convert
The decision rules behind every output picker in Novus Convert: photos versus graphics, transparency, structured-data round-trips, archive trade-offs, quality versus size, and the validation gate before download.
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Novus Convert · Jul 16, 2026
Mixed-batch conversion: one queue, a different output per file
An operator’s guide to mixed-batch conversion in Novus Convert: the per-row queue model, deliberate output choices, naming and ordering habits, the local-processing privacy story, verification, and when to split a batch.
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Novus Convert · Jul 14, 2026
Novus Convert launch: private file conversion with verified outputs
Why we built a file converter that distinguishes real working routes from format guides and validates every result before download.
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