Best video converter for Mac?

[alm99]

I have some videos I want to convert to my iPod touch. Files are currently in avi format.

What do you use?

 

[Kmax82]

I use Visual Hub, but iSquint is also a great free solution.

 

[alm99]

Originally posted by: Kmax82
I use Visual Hub, but iSquint is also a great free solution.

How simple is Visual Hub? I quickly looked at it this morning, but it looked a little more advanced than I wanted. Really prefer something that I can select my video, choose from a couple of preset settings for the iPhone/Touch and convert. Isquint seemed extremely basic.

EDIT: Literally only had 5 minutes to compare the two.

 

[rivan]

I use Visual Hub too and am very pleased with it. The settings aren't difficult to figure out.

I haven't looked at iSquint.

 

[alm99]

Originally posted by: rivan
I use Visual Hub too and am very pleased with it. The settings aren't difficult to figure out.

I haven't looked at iSquint.

Nice! Does it allow for editing video if I wanted to? Currently I have a couple kid shows I would like to cut the commercials out of

 

[Kmax82]

VisualHub is extremely simple.. you drag'n'drop your video in, and there is a drop down menu in the "iTunes" section to convert your video into any iPod format.

As for editing video, you might want to look to something a little more complex... ( http://www.squared5.com/svideo/mpeg-streamclip-mac.html ). MpegStreamclip is not as UI friendly, like VisualHub, but it's free, and it offers the ability to cut, paste, trim, etc... and encode to different formats.

 

[Kaido]

Originally posted by: alm99

Originally posted by: rivan
I use Visual Hub too and am very pleased with it. The settings aren't difficult to figure out.

I haven't looked at iSquint.

Nice! Does it allow for editing video if I wanted to? Currently I have a couple kid shows I would like to cut the commercials out of

Source file -> Visual Hub -> iMovie -> Visual Hub -> Output device

With Visual Hub you can basically take whatever your source file is and convert it into something that iMovie can understand (and thus edit), and then output it to your final destination (Xbox, AppleTV, iPod, iPhone, PSP, DVD, whatever). You may need to use Visual Hub to re-render the output from iMovie if it doesn't support your intended device. That sounds kind of complex, but it's really simple in practice. Get your video, convert it to an iMovie-compatible format if needed, edit out commercials or content, output it to device.

 

[alm99]

Originally posted by: Kaido

Originally posted by: alm99

Originally posted by: rivan
I use Visual Hub too and am very pleased with it. The settings aren't difficult to figure out.

I haven't looked at iSquint.

Nice! Does it allow for editing video if I wanted to? Currently I have a couple kid shows I would like to cut the commercials out of

Source file -> Visual Hub -> iMovie -> Visual Hub -> Output device

With Visual Hub you can basically take whatever your source file is and convert it into something that iMovie can understand (and thus edit), and then output it to your final destination (Xbox, AppleTV, iPod, iPhone, PSP, DVD, whatever). You may need to use Visual Hub to re-render the output from iMovie if it doesn't support your intended device. That sounds kind of complex, but it's really simple in practice. Get your video, convert it to an iMovie-compatible format if needed, edit out commercials or content, output it to device.

Got it, thanks for the info.

 

[blackdogdeek]

i use ffmpegx to convert avi to mp4 for the ipod touch