video users

Apr 27 2009

Apple TV Must-have Video Utilities – Free

In honor of the new Apple TV I’ve gathered together a list of must-have Mac video utilities (free of course). Get ready to get video in out and all over your Apple TV (or iPod with video, or even your Mac).

Getting it out:

Video Flash Downloader

Pull down hours of entertainment from YouTube and other Flash-based web video sites with Video Flash Downloader. This application replaces code-hacking and Firefox extensions, and supersedes their function with batch downloading capabilities.

iSquint

Nothing new to most iPod video users, this powerful application encodes video for use on the iPod with video – a format the Apple TV just loves. Under advanced options you can massage the settings for your Apple TVs increased resolution. Growl notifications supported.

TiVoDecode Manager

Have a version 2 TiVo? This application will decode your video files into MPEGs compatible with Apple TV (adjust your settings). This application supports Growl too and preserves video meta data like description. The application accomplishes all this as a GUI to a command line application.

Copernicus

If you’d like nothing more than to watch yourself work (or record anything else you might have going on your desktop) then this motion-screenshot application’s for you.

Getting it in:

HandBrake

The celebrated king-of-all DVD rippers has received a long awaited update. Better than ever, the application will rip your DVDs to MPEG 4 video files, just like your Apple TV likes them.

Lostify

Have a TiVo or EyeTV full of television? Once you get these episode’s converted, you’ll want to add the requisite meta data (like series title, season) so they show up just like a purchased episode in iTunes – and on Apple TV and iPod. Get this done with this great meta tag editor for iTunes video files.

Now sync, stream and enjoy. With these great utilities you can enjoy heaps of entertaining video from a plethora of free sources.

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Jan 4 2005

‘Google’ & ‘Amazon’ tool for media creators updates news, speed & stability

Intelligent Assistance has released the 4.1 update to it’s free centralized resource hub specifically that offers google/amazon-like convenience for Apple’s professional audio and video users. This update to the free software Pro Apps Hub includes a faster browser, improvements to speed and stability and an upgrade news and tips section.

The Pro Apps Hub is a single, convenient resource with everything users of Apple’s professional applications need to be productive and creative with their software. It is free software that is an industry-specific cross between “Google” and Amazon, but better indexed and more easily browsed. Major features include:

  • News, tips and critical warning – news that is specific to the professional user, written from their perspective by industry veteran, Philip Hodgetts and has already been first to break many stories, like 4:4:4 uncompressed raw output from DV camcorders;
  • An index to every relevant article, tutorial or resource for the pro apps – ranked for quality and accessible by category, topic or type all in the one software tool;
  • A quality assessed list of all relevant forums – only forums that are active and useful are listed and ranked;
  • An online catalog for purchasing just the training or resource a user needs from a variety of content providers, without breaking their creative flow – catalog purchases are managed installs or into the library with purchase-confirm single click ease;
    User library where all purchased training content, regardless of source, is managed and displayed in the unique floating interface for ease of work-along.

The Pro Apps Hub is free software available for download now, that conveniently indexes the best of what’s free and provides everything else you need to be productive and creative with Apple’s professional media production software.

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