14 DAY TRIAL // ReelBean is a full-featured movie converter, player and editor for Mac OS X. The application can play almost any Mac-supported video and audio format, and supports use of third-party plugins that make proprietary formats available. With the release of ReelBean 4.31, developer JS8 Media has fixed a bug in the software update mechanism, as well as made memory-usage improvements.
Besides the aforementioned capabilities, ReelBean also boasts video-editing features, and lets you separate video from audio, split movies, or playback at a slower or faster rate. Additionally, you have the ability to play your original DVD movies using the same features, and even stream videos that you can record and save to your Mac. ReelBean is supported on both Leopard and Tiger, as well as Intel and PowerPC processors.
ReelBean also offers options to play around with various video formats, adjust sound settings, such as bass and treble, but most importantly, video settings, which include numerous options like brightness, contrast, saturation, hue, transparency, trim selection and even play rate (only for playback). Have any DVDs lying around? ReelBean is also a DVD player! The main features include:
- convert from and to numerous popular video formats; - record video and audio; - play DVDs; - play streaming videos; - chapter display; - scene Selection Drawer; - split & Join capabilities; - adjustable video transparency; - extract video/audio tracks into separate files; - add audio to video; - add video annotations; - audio and video controls.
Additionally, users can access the window menu to navigate and select scenes and chapters available for a video, and choose just the parts that interest them. The Scene Selection feature also lets them jump to a scene by double-clicking it. Last, but certainly not least, ReelBean lets them convert videos from and to many popular formats, including all iPod-, iPhone- and Apple TV-supported formats, as well as 3GP, AIFF, FLC, AVI, Wave and MPEG-4.