14 DAY TRIAL // JS8 Media has released a new version of its full-featured movie converter, player and editor for Mac OS X, ReelBean. The application can play almost any Mac-supported video and audio format, and supports the use of third-party plugins that make proprietary formats available. With the release of ReelBean 4.32, the Chapter panel can now be resized. Reduced memory usage and Snow Leopard support round up the “what’s new” list.
ReelBean boasts video-editing features as well, and allows you to 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. 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. The Scene Selection feature also lets you jump to a scene by double-clicking it.
The software 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). Moreover, ReelBean assists 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. 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.
ReelBean is supported on both Leopard and Tiger, as well as Intel and PowerPC processors. The program costs $15 to buy.