Hi Developers,
after the end of our lovely VisualHub i'm happy to see the birth of this OpenSource Project. I think it will be great to collect some Ideas from VisualHub Users to possibly implement in a new version. Let me start with my first ideas.
1. xgrid encoding for leopard will be great!
2. better "Stitch files together" option. Let me explain in detail. If you have many movies, each with 2 or 3 single files, you can stitch together only one movie at conversion time. it would be great if you can define from a list, which file belongs together and then convert and stitch all.
3. a cli version would also be great.
Torsten
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2) Support one mode where the Elgato Turbo 264 can be used, like in RoadMovie (I know that you cannot choose many quality settings, but it would be useful to be another "mode" that one could use)
3) Now something I would REALLY love to see: Something like an automated mode where you can choose what you want to do with the movie based on the input data.... Example: If i add movie files, I want files that are smaller than 800x600 pixels to be automatically converted using the Turbo264 (as in feature 2) and for files larger than that I want to use ffmpeg as in visualHub right now. And this would also enable the feature that while a movie is being converted with the Turbo264, it could convert a second movie using ffmpeg at the same time
4) Support iTunes metadata (like in MetaX, including the TagChimp and other databases for automatic and semiautomatic information filling)
5) Full Automator support including automatic conversion according to feature (3) when files are added to a folder
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What about an icon? I have a decent bit of experience doing graphic design for icons and in-app images. Any ideas for what this new icon should look like? Possibly referencing VisualHub's old film strip icon in some way?
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Also, are we collectively sold on TranscoderRedux as the public name of this software? It's kind of long and a mouthful. Can we come up with something better?
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Does Tyler or someone else have the original artwork (as hi-res as possible)? I have a couple ideas I'd like to try out incorporating the old icon design.
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I'm on a quest to find a programme to automatically crop letter- and pillarboxes out of videos. I rip TV shows onto my computer using an older card that only records 4:3 but I play them back on a 16:9 television. I'd like to post-process all my TV shows and get rid of the windowboxes so I can view them as close to full-screen as possible. I have a shiny new 8-core Mac Pro sitting here ready to blast away at the problem as well as a quad core windows computer but I can't find any software to do this.
Does this software do what I want? Does anybody have any other suggestions?
Thanks a lot,
- Andrew.
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I'd really like to see the ability for the software to look for libdvdcss on a given Mac (usually put there by VLC) and be able to use it if present. We don't have to *advertise* this capability but it should be able to be used if the conditions are right.
Another thing would be to have "chunking mode" to work with iMovie. You have a big file you want to be able to edit in iMovie. iMovie silently dies if it gets a bigger file than 1.9GB. I don't know about the brand new iMovie, but that's iMovieHD's behavior and apparently it was the case with earlier versions. "Chunking mode" would slice the movie into 1.9GB chunks for editing in iMovieHD. I don't know about iMovie '08 having the same restriction, but iMovie '08 really isn't iMovie anymore but something totally new that I totally hate. MPEG Streamclip already does this. I'd like to have that available in FilmRedux or whatever the proggie is going to be called.
Actually another request would be to have the ability to ADD hard letterboxing to 16:9 source material. Some of us have a need to force material into 4:3 for portability and projector compatibility. Most video projectors have a 4:3 matrix. We are seeing a trickle of 16:9 projectors beginning to show up, but most of the legacy projectors are either 800 x 600 or 1024 x 768. If you go onto a college campus, you might see VGA-rez projectors...they do still exist, ugly thought that it is. iMovieHD will letterbox 16:9 video you capture from a camera, but will not letterbox .DV fed to it in other ways, so you wind up with squishy Aeon Flux people instead of the proper aspect ratio.
I'm not a developer but I'm a writer and would be happy to help on the documentation team when the time comes. VisualHub was a beautiful thing, I registered my copy, and want to see it continue. It's a "swiss army knife" for video conversion. Maybe the new icon should be a swiss army knife or a multi-tool with a little strip of film extending out of it.
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I'd like to see more integration with iTunes. Visual Hub can import into iTunes, but it doesn't fill in any metadata. There should be some way to parse at least the episode number and use that to look up some of the metadata and fill it in.
It would also be nice if it could monitor folders so that when new files come in they can be automatically transcoded.
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I don't have any trouble transcoding .mkv files, which contain H.264 encoded video at least. Also, Visual Hub does have the ability to automatically crop pillar box and letterbox content.
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I have been a fan of the old visualhub, so I am really looking forward to the FilmRedux software, but I have one feature request:
a preview screen.
in visualhub it used to be too hard to guess what the final result would look like for a new user.
I just tweaked, saved, checked, tweaked, saved, checked, tweaked, saved, checked, etc. until I finally got what I wanted.
A preview option would resolve a lot of these issues.
I have tried out the aimersoft TM converter, but the rendering/saving of a file is sooooooo slow, that it really isn't worth it. but the interface has some nice features.. http://forums.macworld.com/message/678793
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First off I would like to offer my support for this project. (With that and $2 you can get a cup of coffee.)
I was a paid user of VisualHub. It is a great program. It does what I needed it to do. I use it to convert avi files and make/burn DVDs. It does this better and faster in 45 min than Toast does over night!
The only issue I had with VisualHub is that multiple files were just added sequentially. I have downloaded the current version of FilmRedux and I am delighted that you have included a "create simple menu" option. This will be terrific when working with a TV series. I thought I would try this out but could not get the program to work. It did not appear to add new files. Was I using the current version? Also - and this is minor - I did not see a way of naming a DVD.
I would like to offer my help with this project but I am not sure what I could do - not being a programmer.
Thanks to the development team from an appreciative user.
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Hi Developers,
after the end of our lovely VisualHub i'm happy to see the birth of this OpenSource Project. I think it will be great to collect some Ideas from VisualHub Users to possibly implement in a new version. Let me start with my first ideas.
1. xgrid encoding for leopard will be great!
2. better "Stitch files together" option. Let me explain in detail. If you have many movies, each with 2 or 3 single files, you can stitch together only one movie at conversion time. it would be great if you can define from a list, which file belongs together and then convert and stitch all.
3. a cli version would also be great.
Torsten
A cli version already exists. its called ffmpeg and mencoder. All these projects are are a friendly GUI for these pre-existing conversion tools.
I have a few feature ideas.
1) Leopard XGrid compatibility, of course
2) Support one mode where the Elgato Turbo 264 can be used, like in RoadMovie (I know that you cannot choose many quality settings, but it would be useful to be another "mode" that one could use)
3) Now something I would REALLY love to see: Something like an automated mode where you can choose what you want to do with the movie based on the input data.... Example: If i add movie files, I want files that are smaller than 800x600 pixels to be automatically converted using the Turbo264 (as in feature 2) and for files larger than that I want to use ffmpeg as in visualHub right now. And this would also enable the feature that while a movie is being converted with the Turbo264, it could convert a second movie using ffmpeg at the same time
4) Support iTunes metadata (like in MetaX, including the TagChimp and other databases for automatic and semiautomatic information filling)
5) Full Automator support including automatic conversion according to feature (3) when files are added to a folder
The ability to choose Where in iTunes you add a file. Instead of dumping everything in Movies, we could choose, Movies, TV Shows, Podcasts, etc
this is based on the metadata embedded in the file
if the metadata says its a TV show, iTunes will show it in the TV Shows category and so on...
What about an icon? I have a decent bit of experience doing graphic design for icons and in-app images. Any ideas for what this new icon should look like? Possibly referencing VisualHub's old film strip icon in some way?
Also, are we collectively sold on TranscoderRedux as the public name of this software? It's kind of long and a mouthful. Can we come up with something better?
TranscoderRedux is the name of the project - there will be other transcoding products to come I.E. FilmRedux is a product and so is PunyVid.
An icon would be nice - a way of incorporating the past would be kinda cool as well.
Does Tyler or someone else have the original artwork (as hi-res as possible)? I have a couple ideas I'd like to try out incorporating the old icon design.
I really love VisualHub, and am (was) a paid supporter.
I'd like to see full .mkv conversion support. I greatly dislike having to use a Windoze box to convert .mkv files.
Check the package contents of Visualhub - that'll contain the original artwork as high-res as it'll still exist.
I'm on a quest to find a programme to automatically crop letter- and pillarboxes out of videos. I rip TV shows onto my computer using an older card that only records 4:3 but I play them back on a 16:9 television. I'd like to post-process all my TV shows and get rid of the windowboxes so I can view them as close to full-screen as possible. I have a shiny new 8-core Mac Pro sitting here ready to blast away at the problem as well as a quad core windows computer but I can't find any software to do this.
Does this software do what I want? Does anybody have any other suggestions?
Thanks a lot,
- Andrew.
I'd really like to see the ability for the software to look for libdvdcss on a given Mac (usually put there by VLC) and be able to use it if present. We don't have to *advertise* this capability but it should be able to be used if the conditions are right.
Another thing would be to have "chunking mode" to work with iMovie. You have a big file you want to be able to edit in iMovie. iMovie silently dies if it gets a bigger file than 1.9GB. I don't know about the brand new iMovie, but that's iMovieHD's behavior and apparently it was the case with earlier versions. "Chunking mode" would slice the movie into 1.9GB chunks for editing in iMovieHD. I don't know about iMovie '08 having the same restriction, but iMovie '08 really isn't iMovie anymore but something totally new that I totally hate. MPEG Streamclip already does this. I'd like to have that available in FilmRedux or whatever the proggie is going to be called.
Actually another request would be to have the ability to ADD hard letterboxing to 16:9 source material. Some of us have a need to force material into 4:3 for portability and projector compatibility. Most video projectors have a 4:3 matrix. We are seeing a trickle of 16:9 projectors beginning to show up, but most of the legacy projectors are either 800 x 600 or 1024 x 768. If you go onto a college campus, you might see VGA-rez projectors...they do still exist, ugly thought that it is. iMovieHD will letterbox 16:9 video you capture from a camera, but will not letterbox .DV fed to it in other ways, so you wind up with squishy Aeon Flux people instead of the proper aspect ratio.
I'm not a developer but I'm a writer and would be happy to help on the documentation team when the time comes. VisualHub was a beautiful thing, I registered my copy, and want to see it continue. It's a "swiss army knife" for video conversion. Maybe the new icon should be a swiss army knife or a multi-tool with a little strip of film extending out of it.
Rats, I repeated myself there. No edit mode for already posted posts. Sorry guys.
I'd like to see more integration with iTunes. Visual Hub can import into iTunes, but it doesn't fill in any metadata. There should be some way to parse at least the episode number and use that to look up some of the metadata and fill it in.
It would also be nice if it could monitor folders so that when new files come in they can be automatically transcoded.
I don't have any trouble transcoding .mkv files, which contain H.264 encoded video at least. Also, Visual Hub does have the ability to automatically crop pillar box and letterbox content.
I would be all for a new name. Ideas:
- Video Monkey
- Route 66
- Normalizer
- Swizzle
- Video Juicer
ok, that's enough of that :-)
I have been a fan of the old visualhub, so I am really looking forward to the FilmRedux software, but I have one feature request:
a preview screen.
in visualhub it used to be too hard to guess what the final result would look like for a new user.
I just tweaked, saved, checked, tweaked, saved, checked, tweaked, saved, checked, etc. until I finally got what I wanted.
A preview option would resolve a lot of these issues.
I have tried out the aimersoft TM converter, but the rendering/saving of a file is sooooooo slow, that it really isn't worth it. but the interface has some nice features..
http://forums.macworld.com/message/678793
I'd like a UI that's more Tiger/Leopard and less Jaguar/Panther. Such as using AudialHub as a baseline.
I'd like to be able to select language tracks and embed subs as well, two key features that I always felt were missing
oh yeah, and tag resolution using amazon, tag chimp, and the tvdb would be nice as well
I would like to see the ability to add an image (or a text string) for watermarking (using the ffmpeg vhook stuff or maybe the upcoming libavfilter).
vhook: <http://ffmpeg.mplayerhq.hu/hooks.html>
First off I would like to offer my support for this project. (With that and $2 you can get a cup of coffee.)
I was a paid user of VisualHub. It is a great program. It does what I needed it to do. I use it to convert avi files and make/burn DVDs. It does this better and faster in 45 min than Toast does over night!
The only issue I had with VisualHub is that multiple files were just added sequentially. I have downloaded the current version of FilmRedux and I am delighted that you have included a "create simple menu" option. This will be terrific when working with a TV series. I thought I would try this out but could not get the program to work. It did not appear to add new files. Was I using the current version? Also - and this is minor - I did not see a way of naming a DVD.
I would like to offer my help with this project but I am not sure what I could do - not being a programmer.
Thanks to the development team from an appreciative user.
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Would it be possible to add On2 VP6 codec to the Flash export tab? That would be great - but maybe there is licensing involved.