Audio & Multimedia > Conversion

Description: DVDxDV Pro is widely used through-out the television and film industry to create broadcast quality video from standard DVDs. Many prominent television shows, such as, Frontline on PBS, have used DVDxDV to create high quality video from DVD. DVDxDV Pro is professional DVD video extraction for users of Final Cut Pro and DVD Studio Pro. Using the same video extraction engine as DVDxDV, DVDxDV Pro lets you extract multi-channel audio at up to 24 bit resolution. It can output video with lower field or upper field dominant interlacing. In addition, video can be cropped to a specific resolution.What's new in this version:Video conversion enhancements.Mac OS 10.5 Leopard compatible.

Keywords: conversion extract create video audio 

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.5; File size: 4198 kb; Updated: 2008-05-28

Description: Turbo.264 is a powerful hardware encoding device that quickly converts any video to the advanced H.264 (MPEG-4) format without using your Mac’s resources. Work, watch TV and surf the web while you encode video with no reduction in processing speed. Turbo.264 supports many third-party Mac video applications as well as EyeTV.What's new in this version:Direct YouTube upload. Encoded clips can be uploaded to YouTube immediately after encoding.AC-3 audio for AppleTV. If present in the source file, AC-3 audio will be passed through when exporting to Apple TV. The resulting file contains both AAC and AC-3 audio.DVD chapter support - Chapter markers in the source will be included in the exported file as QuickTime chapters.QuickTime Broadcaster support. Turbo.264 1.3 adds support for compressing live streaming video into H.264 using QuickTime Broadcaster. The CPU load is much less than when using software compression, and the quality is always 100%, no frames are dropped.DVD Closed Caption Support - DVD closed c...

Keywords: compression advanced format upload source video audio watch 

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.5; File size: 11776 kb; Updated: 2008-05-22

Description: Max is an application for creating high-quality audio files in various formats, from compact discs or files.When extracting audio from compact discs, Max offers the maximum in flexibility to ensure the true sound of your CD is faithfully extracted. For pristine discs, Max offers a high-speed ripper with no error correction. For damaged discs, Max can either use its built-in comparison ripper (for drives that cache audio) or the error-correcting power of cdparanoia.Once the audio is extracted, Max can generate audio in over 20 compressed and uncompressed formats including MP3, Ogg (Vorbis), FLAC, AAC, Apple Lossless, Monkey's Audio, WavPack, Speex, AIFF, and WAVE.If you would like to convert your audio from one format to another, Max can read and write audio files in over 20 compressed and uncompressed formats at almost all sample rates and and in most sample sizes. For many popular formats the artist and album metadata is transferred seamlessly between the old and new files. Max can even split a single au...

Keywords: application damaged convert format ripper error album sound 

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.5; File size: 5018 kb; Updated: 2008-05-01

Description: SheerVideo is a powerful faster-than-real-time perfectly lossless software video codec for production, postproduction, and archival. Compared to uncompressed formats, Sheer willdouble your disk speeddouble your disk sizedouble your transmission bandwidthmaintain absolutely perfect fidelity, bit-for-bit identical to the originalSheerVideo supports all standard uncompressed formats, including:RGB[A] and Y'CbCr[A]4:4:4[:4] and 4:2:2[:4]with and without alpha8-bit and 10-bitprogressive and interlacedSD, HD, and any-DNTSC, PAL, and SECAM4:3, 16:9, and any:anyat any frame rateAnd now, with Synchromy, SheerVideo can interconvert between all standard pixel formats with unrivalled accuracy.What's new in this version:For details, see Online Release Notes.

Keywords: online video notes time disk 

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.5; File size: 3520 kb; Updated: 2008-04-30

Description: MKVtools is the new name for MoKgVm2DVD. The new name is due to its expanded capabilities in converting .ogm and .mkv files into more user friendly formats - either .avi files, .mp4 files or as individually extracted track files. MKVtools is trialware - only $3.50 for full functionality, though it will function unregistered, with some minor limitations.Key features include:Convert .mkv and .ogm videos to either .avi files or .mp4 files.Extract the selected tracks as individual video, audio and/or subtitle files.Intuitively select desired video, audio and/or subtitle tracks to proces, with the ability to verify the selections using video preview.Use presets for one step encoding .mp4 files for playback on (a) iphones/ipods, (b) Apple TV (still in beta so I need feedback), and (c) hopefull in the future Playstation 3 and Xbox 360.Embed selected subtitle track (i.e., hard subtitles) into the video.Control the font, size and positioning of the embeded subtitles.Create a user-definable test clip to check setti...

Keywords: control convert extract create video files audio into 

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.5; File size: 3520 kb; Updated: 2008-04-28

Description: Movie Tools includes seven small utilities:Convert To MP3 v2.1: Convert a QuickTime movie into an MP3 file.Convert To AAC v1.1: Convert a QuickTime movie into an AAC file.Convert To AIFF v1.1: Convert a QuickTime movie into an AIFF file.Split Movie Tracks v1.1: Split a multi-track QuickTime movie into multiple QuickTime movies.Marker Editor v1.0.1: Add and edit a movie's QuickTime chapter markers.Split Sides of Conversation v1.0: Split a recorded Skype or iChat call into local and remote movie files.Convert For Internet v1.0: Convert a recorded iChat or Skype call into a form sufficient for uploading to a web site such as YouTube.This collection of seven drag-and-drop converters provide a quick and easy way to extract movie tracks and convert QuickTime movies to MP3, AAC or AIFF format for podcasts and sharing. Just drag a movie file to one the program icons and it will take care of the rest.These utilities were designed for use with Call Recorder for Skype and Conference Recorder for iChat AV but can be ...

Keywords: utilities internet extract convert format editor movies remote 

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.5; File size: 550 kb; Updated: 2008-04-25

Description: Encode and create your DVD with chapter support, animated menu, subtitles and slideshow with transitions. Support for Themes using Quartz Compositions or PulpMotion > 1.10.What's new in this version:Some intermediary files where not deletedDisc Image creation is disabled when the user doesn't have necessary privilegesAdded credits for open source tools

Keywords: slideshow animated create source image tools files 

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.5; File size: 18227 kb; Updated: 2008-04-15

Description: ToolPlayer is a little and simple music player for OSX with support for many file types, including FLAC, MP3, AAC, Musepack, Monkey's Audio, OGG Vorbis, Apple Lossless, AIFF, WAV, IT, MOD, XM and others. Includes numerous effects like Equalizer, Reverb, Time Stretch, Pitch Shift, Echo. Moreover, all supported files can be exported to WAV format with enabled effects.What's new in this version:Leopard compatibilityCompletely rewritten playback manager using the BASSReduced CPU and RAM usageGapless playbackSupport for True Audio, WavPack, Speex and NeXT/SunSupport for Games MusicSupport for 24 bit / 96 kHz FLAC filesSupport for files greater than 4GBImproved Musepack compatibilityImproved tags reading with TagLibNew export file formatsOn-the-fly output device switchDetection of hot-plugged devicesApple Remote and Keyspan RF supportReorganized effectsTuned EqualizerHighly improved Time Stretch and Pitch Shift effectsTracked music settingsAnti-Aliasing output settingsExport during playbackFolder Drag & DropRew...

Keywords: manager reading effects remote format player files music 

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.5; File size: 2150 kb; Updated: 2008-04-08

Description: iSquint is an iPod video conversion app for Mac OS X.It's many times faster than QuickTime Pro, works with almost all popular video formats, and it's infinitely free-er.It's also really easy.Just drag in your file, and click Start.You can also choose "TV" or "iPod" size, set your quality, or even go all-out by playing in the Advanced drawer.On a 1GHz G4, iSquint can convert most video files to iPod-screen-sized videos in realtime. Intel Macs are up to twice as fast, and can convert videos upwards of 5x realtime! Depending on a few factors, a 20 minute video will take up anywhere from 50-150MB of disk space.Features:- Fast MPEG-4 and H.264 conversion from almost every popular video format, from 3GP to XviD.- QuickTime Pro and DivX codec not required.- DivX and XviD AVIs, all forms of MPEG video, and many other formats QuickTime chokes on are supported.- Batch Processing of multiple files. Save in-place, or to a different folder.- Automatic aspect ratio detection. Anamorphic MPEG-2 and HDV detected too.- Qu...

Keywords: conversion advanced convert format folder screen space video 

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.5; File size: 5837 kb; Updated: 2008-03-07

Description: MPEG Streamclip converts QuickTime movies, MPEG-1/2/4 files and transport streams into several formats; for MPEG-2 playback and export, the QuickTime MPEG-2 Playback Component is required. MPEG Streamclip can play and convert selectable parts of QuickTime movies, MPEG files and transport streams with MPEG/AC3/PCM audio into DV streams or QuickTime, AVI, MPEG-4 movies using any video codec, with optional 2D-FIR professional scaling, motion-adaptive deinterlacing, and other pro options; all in YUV, with audio in perfect sync. It also performs fast conversions to muxed MPEG files and demuxed M2V, AIFF, M1A, AC3 files, for direct burning with DVD Studio Pro and Toast 6, 7, 8.What's new in this version:improved compatibility with Mac OS X Leopardfaster player resizingsupport for FLV files without soundimproved AVI importer and progressive download of AVI/DivXimproved Open URL commandfixed compatibility with YouTube, Google Video, Yahoo! Videoadded compatibility with Stage6 and Dailymotionmany bugs and known is...

Keywords: component download convert player movies video files audio 

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.5; File size: 1536 kb; Updated: 2008-02-18