14 DAY TRIAL // Do you think everybody sits back and enjoys the Christmas presents and other Winter Holidays goodies? Better think again, because yesterday Techspansion released an update to its video encoding tool known to the world as VisualHub. Well, if you work and you get an update of your product ready, as a post-Christmas present for your customers, that could be a nice way to spend the Christmas, at least for some of us...
OK, let's get to business now, shall we? VisualHub's last version is 1.19, and the producer claims this update brings a major speed increase to H.264 encoding for people using multi-processor Macs, scaling quality improvements for Intel-based Macs users, as well as fixes to some MPEG-2 decoding issues and aspect detection on EyeTV packages, but there's more to find out now, and I am talking about the main features of this program.
VisualHub is based on the popular free conversion software for iPods called iSquint, but even if you have never used that program, you won't have to catch up a big deal, since VisualHub is as easy to use as possible.
VisualHub features fast conversion from nearly every video format to iPod, PSP, DV, DVD, Tivo, AVI, MP4, WMV, MPEG and Flash, Xgrid support, batch processing of multiple files, dynamic preview and a very comprehensive Advanced panel that allows you to modify every aspect of the encoding process. If you don't care about advanced settings and just want to get the job done, there are only three steps to remember - click, drag, click!
If you want to stitch multiple files together and get as much data on a DVD as possible, then you'll be pleased to know that VisualHub allows you to fit up to 18 hours of video on one DVD!
At last, no worries about compatibility issues - VisualHub comes as a Universal Binary for both PowerPc and Intel-based Macs, so take your time to get this program and try it. If you consider buying VisualHub, then you should know that the price is 23.32$.