14 DAY TRIAL // ReelBean 4.5 is a new version of the full-featured movie converter, player, and editor for Mac OS X available from JS8 Media. ReelBean is capable of playing almost any Mac-supported video and audio format, and supports the use of third-party plugins that make proprietary formats available. The media-focused app is supported on all three major versions of Apple’s OS used today (Tiger, Leopard, and Snow Leopard).
Besides offering options to play around with various formats, ReelBean boasts video-editing features and allows you to separate video from audio, split movies, or playback at a slower or faster rate. You have the ability to play around your original DVD movies using the same features, and even stream videos that you can record and save to your Mac. You can access the window menu to navigate and select scenes and chapters available for a video, and choose just the parts that interest you.
In addition, the Scene Selection feature allows you jump to a scene by double-clicking it. According to the release notes for ReelBean 4.5, the Annotations window can now be manually resized. JS8 Media also claims that it has removed an unused item (Close) from the File menu.
Using the app, you can tweak and adjust sound settings as well, such as the bass and treble. Video settings include numerous options like brightness, contrast, saturation, hue, transparency, trim selection, and even play rate (only for playback). Finally, if you’re looking for a powerful, universal video-conversion program, the 15-dollar app can assist you in converting 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.
Supported on Tiger, Leopard, and Snow Leopard, as well as Intel and PowerPC processors, ReelBean is available for download using the link below. To read an extensive review of the program, just go where the second link will take you.