Filed under: Utilities, Video, Macintosh
Videomonkey video converter for Mac picks up where VisualHub left off
by Jay Hathaway Mar 30th 2009 at 9:00AM
VideoMonkey uses the FFMpeg encoder for most of its work, but it also has the ability to combine with other tools and automatically figure out how to convert even some weird filetypes. For example, if you edit a WMV with Quicktime Pro and save it, VideoMonkey understands how to separate the audio and video and recombine them in a new format of your choice. This all goes on behind the scenes: for the user, it's a 1-click process. If you loved VisualHub, and you're looking for a replacement, VideoMonkey is all that and more.
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Insomnic said 10:34AM on 3-30-2009
Does convert anything besides Apple device formats yet? I understand TranscoderRedux (the open source project at sourceforge for Visual Hub) can't do presets besides iPod/AppleTV/Etc.
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NoAndThen said 10:05AM on 3-30-2009
I really hope this does .mkv well! I'm sick of needing to reboot to windows just for mkv2vob... damn ps3 file/file size limitations.
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Rauz said 4:32PM on 3-30-2009
Handbrake can do mkv and a lot of non-Apple formats.
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