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MovieConverter-Studio Changelog

What's new in MovieConverter-Studio 3.09 Build 4021

Jun 24, 2015
  • Minor bug fixes and improvements.

New in MovieConverter-Studio 3.08 Build 3995 (Jun 11, 2015)

  • DV output (for editing) format was broken into the modern version of MovieConverter (aka "64bits") : This video format is no more well handled by recent versions of iMovie… and prohibited with High Definition videos. Fixed, now you can again prepare your videos for iMovieHD
  • Optimization: During a conversion of standard (PALNTSC), the audio step is almost twice faster!
  • Fix a bug with the feature "Hide a television channel logo" : if you created of "blank mask" for your video, during encoding the "channel logo window" was automatically displayed for nothing! Fixed (…now, you can no more validate a blank mask).
  • Subtitles - Fix: If the subtitle file characters were not formatted as "utf-8", the app crashed!!! Fixed (…so, various file formats are well managed again).
  • Subtitles - Improvement: better detection of commented parts in subtitle files.
  • Ergonomic improvement : With the "easy" mode, changing your preferences will no more change the settings of your current video. Notice: this old behavior did not affect the others modes ("simple" and "expert").
  • Various minor improvements, 30 changes since the previous version.

New in MovieConverter-Studio 3.07 Build 3965 (May 18, 2015)

  • Improvements with some iMovie outputs.
  • Fix a regression with Mpeg2 files.

New in MovieConverter-Studio 3.02 Build 3882 (Mar 3, 2015)

  • Fix a bug when loading "QuickTime not-fully compliant" files.
  • Fix a bug with background images for the DVD menu.
  • Memory management optimizations.
  • New output format "MP4 for all devices":
  • Fix a failure: depending on characters used by the video file (in its name and path).
  • Improve quality, depending on the setting: "superior" | "good".
  • Outputs formats for Editing:
  • Fix a random failure with files without audio: conversion randomly failed (…depending on the user's system version and the app version).
  • Subtitles:
  • Increase recognition of the origin of subtitles.
  • Automatic correction of "more or less correctly formatted" subtitles.

New in MovieConverter-Studio 3.01 Build 3851 (Feb 16, 2015)

  • Fix a bug with the new output format "MP4 for all devices".

New in MovieConverter-Studio 3.0 Build 3779 (Jan 24, 2015)

  • New "easy mode" for beginners: Video is very technical domain, but you don't have to be an expert about video or specifications, to obtain a good result.
  • Load your file
  • Choose an output format
  • Start conversion
  • That's all, everything is automated, you will obtain a quality video, compliant with the device/format you selected !
  • New outputs for non-Apple devices: from mobile to your game hub, your connected TV, etc.
  • Experts users: adding 2 new "special effects"
  • Hide the logo of a television channel (load your file, select the feature into the expert drawer, a preview will be displayed, move sliders to mask the logo).
  • Selective Crop: to trim the top and/or the bottom of a video frame.
  • Both effects can be previewed before encoding while clicking onto the "remote control" button.
  • Various bugfixes (e.g.: with mpeg2, with "iPad" output)
  • A lot of internal improvements
  • More than 200 changes since the previous version.

New in MovieConverter-Studio 2.15 Build 3550 (Sep 22, 2014)

  • Better: add support of 64-bit.
  • Nicer: ready for Retina screen displays.
  • Ready for the forthcoming system Mac OS X.9.5 (…and more).
  • Faster: on Mac OS X.9 Mavericks (the app will not fall asleep during conversion anymore, due a new Apple system feature).
  • New feature: Preserve the tone of your audio during a standard conversion PAL-NTSC (nor more acute, nor more dull).
  • Many bug fixes.
  • A lot of internal improvements.
  • Specific to the 32-bit version onto site:
  • Correct a bug with .mkv video files.
  • All QuickTime features are now called dynamically. The next system version is still compliant QuickTime (whatever Apple caprices). But when Apple will decide to fully remove QuickTime features, you could continue to use the app.

New in MovieConverter-Studio 2.15 Build 2977 (Jan 21, 2014)

  • New features:
  • Encoding module:
  • New preset reserved for playback onto multimedia hard disc: a preset "Standard Definition videos that occupy less disk space than the DVD format but with the same quality " ;-)
  • Handle "interlaced VC1" now (but approximately) (1 of the 3 video formats used in BluRay discs).
  • DVD-Video module:
  • You do not want a menu? You want a disc that directly starts to play? …Now, you can make a DVD without menu if you had only one video in your Disc (or if you grouped all videos in one, with the "chain" button ;-)).
  • DVD subtitles: Customize the color used for subtitles (select it in preferences panel).
  • + various bugfixes.

New in MovieConverter-Studio 2.13 Build 2890 (Nov 22, 2013)

  • DVD-VIDEO module: allows to extract a menu background from your videos (this feature was broken in a previous version).
  • Encoding module: DV output correction with raw DV: the audio part was not integrated with the video part, so you get two separate files, which is not practical (Notice: raw DV is only produced for the iMovieHD software, if you used a different video editing software, you never encountered have this concern ;-))
  • ProRes codecs: outputs with your favorite ProRes codec (from 4x4 to Lt) are now well managed (previously, the regular ProRes codec was always used).
  • Various minor bugfixes (localizations, optimizations, etc).

New in MovieConverter-Studio 2.12 Build 2808 (Nov 12, 2013)

  • Improvements:
  • New preference : select your preferred language. If your video file (eg from the TNT ) contains several audios, the language you selected will be automatically selected for you (and you will avoid getting the audio - foreign - unwanted ) .
  • Module Subtitles: more resistant to file malformed subtitles (they will be automatically adjusted to avoid failure during encoding ) .
  • Module DVD : more informative error ( for you to be able to fix it ) .
  • Preview ( encoding module ) show a useful extract ( preview the beginning of a film is not very convincing , better preview a sample in the middle of the film) .
  • Detection of videos to " comb effects" (or not) in mov files in the format " Apple Intermediate Codec " . . This verification allows you to maintain the highest quality for all encoding.
  • Various bug fixes specific:
  • Better detection of " Frames Per Second" (with " some compatible QuickTime movies " , lasting more than one hour).
  • Extracting audio could fail ( if you previously canceled during the encoding of audio extraction stage ... and recommenciez ) .
  • Video Enhancement filter : works again.
  • Best video analysis of TNT ( some records have legends / Metadata "exotic" , which made the failure analysis).
  • All modules Studio : If you delete a file after loaded in MovieConverter , the application no longer crashes .
  • Various bug fixes internal (better memory management , ... )
  • Application users:
  • New preference : Can not prevent the end of the encoding ( ... select your favorite set the preferences panel behavior).

New in MovieConverter-Studio 2.111 Build 2658 (Oct 21, 2013)

  • Minor bugfix: the app refused to start (with an alert) if you previously installed a MovieConverter's beta version. Corrected.
  • Add a new preset: "Tablet" (for iPad 1, Samsung Galaxy Tab, etc).
  • The bugs hunting:
  • Encoding > Normalize: Previously MovieConverter produced a random average loudness (only their peaks were handled an corrected). Now your resulting files have a common loudness (peaks and their average loudness is handled). No need to use the remote control anymore when playing multiples files ;-). This option is now conform to international broadcasting specifications!
  • Encoding: faster loading with .mov files
  • Encoding > preview before encoding: the preview is extracted inside the movie and no more at its beginning (so, the preview is more useable (not the first seconds), more bug-proof
  • Encoding > batch: more accurate selection
  • Encoding > for editing: optimized conversions (one step less, so faster).
  • Application: add a close button onto the main window. Improve safety when you want to quit the app during a conversion in progress.
  • Application cosmetics : the display of your destination folder is now nicer (less cabalistic), now you can customized your app's background color again, etc
  • Subtitles module: lots of improvements (more compliant with malformed subtitle files).
  • DVD module: chapters correction (more compliant with the DVD-VIDEO's specifications needs).
  • update FFmpeg version (2.01): newer version means "some features more, some bugs less".
  • And a lot of internal bug fixes (you will not notice them, e.g.: detection of streams language, sanity checks, etc), so the app is more reliable

New in MovieConverter-Studio 1.999 Beta (Jun 11, 2013)

  • MovieConverter has been completely rewritten from scratch.

New in MovieConverter-Studio 1.6 (Aug 9, 2010)

  • New:
  • Encoding module: New "secure" automatism: some broadcasters (on DVB-T) have the bad habit to tag some approximate information during broadcasting. Now MCS automatically avoid trouble even in case of bad tags. This special info -real or wrong - will be automatically handled without loss of quality. (More technically, it is about a wrong info included in videos about field order).
  • Encoding module: if your video includes chapters (eg: iMovie / FinalCut videos, MPEG4, MKV, ...), MovieConverter keeps them to affect them in the "DVD VIDEO module" (this feature is only available in Leopard and SnowLeopard, sorry for Tiger users).
  • Encoding module: first step to handle E-AC3 audio format, especially used on DVB-T (beta-feature only available in Leopard and snowleopard).
  • Encoding module: less alerts, some ergonomy more (eg: files for editing should not be normalized by default, but a files for broadcasting has to be, so -example- the normalization is automatically adjusted to each needs ;-)).
  • Multiplexer Module: The encoding of your subtitle file (.srt, .ssa) will be automatically detected and applied. You only need to click on "Go".
  • Any module: Improved recognition of the number of frames per second for .mov videos (like those from your editing software iMovie or FinalCut).
  • Bug fixes:
  • Encoding module: An error in 'calculation of the additionnal black borders with anamorphic some sources', most often with the aspect 4 / 3 (that an old nasty bug but I had not noticed it and no one notified it to me).
  • Encoding module: multiple corrections with the DV output (DV NTSC mainly). The bug occurred during the simplest conversions. I suspect that few people were using MCS to do these so simple conversions; so the reason why just few people noticed it
  • Encoding module: The loading of some MPEG-TS (not from EyeTv) could block the application when loading / parsing file.
  • Mux / Demux modules: subtitles are correctly extracted from your mpeg (Demux module), those subtitles could be reinstated with Mux module (so if you need to demux an subtitled MPEG, you could integrate them back ;-)).
  • + Some small errors (not really significant)…
  • And for the brave souls who have read the whole "what"s up" and wonder if this version deserved its 1.6 numbering and not 1.55, I would say ... I was tired of 1.5x numbering, it just too much lasted ;)

New in MovieConverter-Studio 1.54 (Feb 5, 2010)

  • Setup Wizard: When you first start the application, a wizard will help you set your preferences.
  • Encoding module:
  • The DVD preset "quality: superior" now produces a higher quality, while being faster and more compatible than previously.
  • Your HD editings (from iMovie or FinalCut) are better converted to DVD.
  • FinalCut nomore complains while giving to it a DV file from "DV output" (end of FinalCut's silly lament.
  • Correction: Cut the beginning of a file could cause a very noticeable decline in quality (in some cases)!
  • Correction: The 5.1 audio from your .mkv will be no more converted to mono during standard conversions.
  • Correction: No more out-of-synch with DVB containing H264 video + AAC audio.
  • Correction: No more concerns with these same files captured via EyeTV and its Program Guide (audio extraction failed).
  • Gadget (?): Set up a new specific output for TiVo (recorder / broadcaster mainly distributed in the United States, United Kingdom and Australia). PS: Currently, this is only an output preset (without any future evolutions until somebody provide a sample to me and his associated Mac key.
  • Multiplexing module: Multiplex elementaries streams usually failed (I made a typo in the code!).
  • All modules: Better management of audio and video starts within a single file (to keep them synchronized). A case has not yet run -in-theory (I have no example with this feature). If the start of your file is not handled yet, an alert will notify you and notify you the information necessary for my management (inform me about it, and your file will be managed in the next version ;-)).
  • All modules: Small corrections to the engine, internal changes that you will not even see but are more reliable to use, a lot of AppleScript code replaced by more robust code in Cocoa (PS: once replaced the remaining 56.000 lines of code in AppleScript, the application will be entirely written in Cocoa

New in MovieConverter-Studio 1.53 (Oct 5, 2009)

  • Snow Leopard compatibility (MacOS 10.6).
  • And for all (even under Tiger or Leopard):
  • Encodage SD module:
  • Option to remove "hardcoded pulldown. This option eliminates duplicate images of "badly FILM NTSC files, encoded in NTSC VIDEO" (eg. all 640px wide trailers, available on Apple's site).
  • Explanation: Some videos NTSC VIDEO (30fps) only contains 24 different frames per second (in fact they are NTSC FILM), on which was replicated 6 frames per second (30-24 = 6) to conform to NTSC VIDEO.
  • In practice: to encode such a file in NTSC VIDEO is interest-free, to encode this kind of video in PAL damages fluidity :-(
  • To remove this error, identify (yourself) the NTSC VIDEO badly encoded and click on "force the framerate" > "NTSC FILM". Pour supprimer cette erreur, identifiez (de vous-même) la vidéo NTSC VIDEO mal encodée et cliquer sur "forcer le framerate" > "NTSC FILM". The process for finding and removing duplicate images will be automatic ;)
  • Improved compatibility with some cameras that do video (videocodec JPEG OpenDML).
  • DV output: Fixed an old bug! (you will not have some failure regardless of the characteristics of your audio file).
  • Fixed 2 bugs with the option "cut begining of your file" (=scissors button):
  • the cut option was no more available when starting the encoding and canceling it.
  • in very rare cases (and only with QuickTime decoding), this option could degrade quality.
  • QuickTime Decoding: Yay, you could no longer alter the geometry of the image (even with a non-sense choice in the "aspect alert" ;))
  • Mux/Demux/DVD-Video modules: fixed a bug concerning the management of video with several audios (depending on the last ffmpeg tool update).
  • Mux module :
  • Fix/add compatibility of AC3 files from a bad RIP.
  • Fix/add compatibility of buggy AC3 files from Compressor2.
  • Ability to mux a .m2v with an .aiff or .wave file (it will be pre-converted to AC3 before mux ;)).
  • Subtitles: preview "character encoding" of your .srt file BEFORE to encode it (this boting technical feature that replales your nice letters by unreadable characters).
  • Subtitles: option to synchronize when they will appear, fix their "delay".
  • All Studio modules: fixed a bug when drag'n'drop on the MCS icon in the Dock.
  • …and some others improvements I forget to note.

New in MovieConverter-Studio 1.52 (Aug 16, 2009)

  • Fixed an error when loading files by drag'n'drop.

New in MovieConverter-Studio 1.51 (Aug 14, 2009)

  • Bug fixes:
  • Global: Compatibility of new MacPro (processors Nehalem) with all modules.
  • Encoding SD Module:
  • Fix a wrong aspect detection with DV files and "DV in a .mov" (the default button of an "aspect alert" didn't purpose the best choice to you!). (maybe it's a detail for you, but accuracy with defaut button is very important for me… and for the next major version ;)).
  • PS: and this bad detection could cause a lose of quality if you selected the "default button". Corrected!
  • QuickTime decoding improvments: fix an old bug, introduced in MCS 1.3 (but nobody reported it to me). PS: as usual, it only occurs with QuickTime versions ≥ 7.4 (earlier versions… you don't mind ;)).
  • Maximum quality in all cases.
  • Easier with AIC files: no more boring alert (about field order) if you load a "well known progressive video" (720p or 960x540 pixels from iMovie per example).
  • Aspect "4:3->16:9" was "sometimes wrong with some anamorphous files" (eg: some DV or mp4). Should be 100% reliable now.
  • Fix artefacts, generated during NTSC FILMPAL conversions with DivX files and the FFmpeg decoder (artefacts were generated on parts of the video with high contrasts, eg: white text on black background …like a movie generic).
  • Remains an other bug (not important) with some QuickTime decodings: In very rare cases, the geometry of the image may be distorted. You will encounter it if you make non-logical choices in an "aspect alert" ;) (to do…)
  • DVD-Video Module:
  • Oops! I forgot to remove a debugging alert (and not localized) when burning a DVD-Video. Now MCS will inform you -before burn- if you made a bad compatibility choice…
  • Fixed an error, when you select a different duration than the default one, for menu thumbnails.
  • HD Module:
  • an error made it unuseable with intel Mac on Tiger (but worked on Leopard PPC&Intel, and Tiger PPC).
  • Fixed a tool update error, if you had tried MCS "a long time ago", or didn't update it "for a long time", the module might not HD function.
  • A bug with the AIC codec.
  • Oddity: if you don't have access rights on your own "QuickTime home folder", the app will run anyway.
  • Some minor "cosmetics" corrections, cleaned up codes, …
  • New site and new address, so bookmark it: http://www.movieconverter-studio.com

New in MovieConverter-Studio 1.5 (Apr 23, 2009)

  • FontExplorerX compatibility: MCS could not even get started if FontExplorerX had deleted the fonts in the system.
  • HD Module: For all: bug fix of AVCHD sources with many images per second (50 or 60): the video was slowed down.
  • For all: compatibility with new cameras:
  • TOSHIBA GigaShot A40FE
  • PANASONIC TM300
  • PANASONIC Lumix ZT7
  • SONY EX1
  • SANYO Xacti HD700
  • "Comfort options" for registered users:
  • Batch mode
  • Option to convert the AVCHD files 3 times faster without quality lose (see web site, Studio chapter).
  • Encoding module: for all registered users:
  • DVD and LCD/Plasma TVs: better quality/compatibility with flat screen televisions, but remaining 100% compatible with cathode televisions and DVD-Video specification.
  • Non-interlaced videos are automatically written as "progressive contents" (like the sticker on your DVD players ;-))
  • In Practice: the DVD-Video norm requires some subtleties, sometimes incompatible with display automatisations of your LCD or Plasma television (especially if your DVD player is not correctly set/plugged). MCS now informs your DVD player about your video content. So, your TV always displays it at its best. You do not have to play with remote controls of your TV / DVD player to display the best quality.(Bonus: encoding of these sources will be faster :-))
  • Encoding module: for a not "personal & private use" (Pro, …):
  • 3 new modes to force a progressive output (if interlace is not compatible with your needs):
  • 1 - Non-interlaced sources: Ability to force output as progressive, even if conversion of standard (ie PALNTSC VIDEO).
  • 2 - Interlaced sources: Adding a method of selective deinterlace: only deinterlace interlaced parts of each frame, and preserves the remainder (eg of use: a video with content both progressive and sometimes interlaced).
  • 3 - Interlaced sources: Adding a method of full deinterlace: deinterlace systematically (this mode is not very subtlety, but if you need it…)
  • Better h264 decoding, new version of FFmpeg: you could read h264 videos that QuickTime can not handle (DVB-T HD for example). Same kind of version as used by VLC and Handbrake.
  • "For DVD", new version of mpeg2enc: quality and compatibility, a great one! You can enable it in MCS preferences window as default encoder:
  • with a quantizer set to 7 (new default value), resulting encodings will be approximately 10% larger on disc than with FFmpeg,
  • a little slower than FFmpeg, setting: "quality good",
  • BUT equivalent to the FFmpeg "quality superior", on optimizing images (motion estimation and size of the GOP),
  • AND with a better bitrate regulation, better conformity with DVD-Video specifications (mpeg2enc directly encode "double pass" ;-)).
  • Encoding module:
  • FFmpeg encoding was often restrained, oops! (if your processor was powerful enough you could now encode faster than real time).
  • Some DVB-T (h264 + aac) are now synchronized.
  • Ultimate(?) anamorphic detection: geometry of your videos will be better respected (bonus: encoding from 16:9 to 4:3letterbox should be always available).
  • Some interlaced files decoded by QuickTime were deformed.
  • The "PanScan" aspect was broken (personal opinion: this aspect has no real interest, I'm not surprising that nobody reported it to me, I guess nobody uses it ;-)).
  • Audio extraction of .mov files with audio mono/8bits could fail.
  • Encoding of AVCHD files from camcorder (.MTS) did not work if the field order (auto or forced) was set to "progressive" (eg: shoots from Canon-HG21).
  • Encoding of AVCHD files from camcorder (.MTS) was buggy in 'Demo-mode' (and we don't care, the conversion process has been completely rewritten ;-)).
  • Failure during mux if MCS window was "Minimize" in the Dock.
  • Encoding module & HD: preview will be a little more fluid on small configurations (PPC for example).
  • Encoding module & Mux: fixed a bug with character "%" in the name or path of the file (it was blocking the batch).
  • Mux module:
  • fixed a bug with image subtitles.
  • fixed a stupid alert if you muxed more than one video in an mpeg.
  • DVD-Video module:
  • Now you could include a subtitled video as DVD-Video introduction (before, this subtitle appears in black on black ;)).
  • Fixed a bug according to the size of some "background images" for menus.
  • For those who still have an old mac: if your graphic card is too old, an alert will prevent you. Follow the instructions that will be displayed, and you will access to nice menus and sub-menus for your DVD-Video, too.
  • Miscellaneous: the switch from encoding module to Studio modules, works with a monitor away from the central unit by 15 meters of cableo (very rough but it does it job ;-)).
  • And lots of other stuff that I forgot to note…

New in MovieConverter-Studio 1.41 (Nov 17, 2008)

  • Checking the version of Perian codec could prevent the launch of MC.
  • MC chose the wrong decoder with .mov from FinalCut.
  • "Cosmetics" improvements (one alert less, better font display).

New in MovieConverter-Studio 1.4 (Nov 12, 2008)

  • New Features:
  • iAuthoring (continued):
  • Always quick to implement ("let all your settings in less than 3 minutes to make a DVD-Video with menus and thumbnails, and not too ugly.")
  • Directly burn your DVD-Video to the most compatible DVD-Video format for your Home DVD Player (no more need to create a disk image).
  • The burn code comes from the the great software LiquidCD. Ability to add audio to your menus (and pre-listening it).
  • Ability to add a background image to your menus (and preview it).
  • New ergonomics: Easily manage files inside your DVD.
  • Load your MPEG one by one, or load a folder (abilty to drop it on MC icon in the Dock).
  • Delete a file, add another, …
  • (The old version was not practical: impossibility to remove or add a video during settings).
  • Adding localization for DVD menus in Russian , Norwegian , Finnish , Dutch
  • New free module "SuntaicHD": convert videos from your camcorder HD into QuickTime compatible files (ready for iMovie / FinalCut).
  • PS: FREE MODULE (free access to all without registration)
  • Runs on PPC as on Intel.
  • (and you will avoid to use iMovie'08 poor quality)
  • load a video AVCHD (camcorders SONY HDS-CX6 / HDR-CX11 / HDR-SR1 / HDR-SR11, Canon HF10 / HF11 / G10 / HR10 / HG20 / HG21 Panasonic HDC-SD1 / HDC-SD5 / HDC-SD100 / SD9 / HS9, …)
  • MovieConverter generates to you a thumbnail (these files cannot be preview in Finder, it will be more convenient to check what they contain).
  • Click the preview (the "eye" button) and MovieConverter will display an excerpt of this illegible video ;).
  • Choose your output format (a file for iMovie, for FinalCut, un 720p, un 1080i, …)
  • Convert
  • Bonus (still free and not even proposed by the other soft*):
  • Converts .TOD files from JVC camcorders (JVC GZ-HD5, JVC HD30, …).
  • and .MP4 from Sanyo HD1000, HD1010 (including 1080i mode).
  • The "Suntaic" module uses the same open-source tools (credits) that the other soft (you will have exactly the same quality and the same slowness ;-)), namely:
  • xport (GPL license): an MPEG-TransportStream demuxer (wrapper of AVCHD).
  • ldecod (GPL license): a video decoder to YUV format.
  • ffmpeg (GPL license): an encoder from YUV stream to mpeg4 video.
  • movencoder (3clause-BSD license): a QuickTime video converter to AIC (video format suitable for editing).
  • Edit: …since the public beta version of MovieConverter 1.4, "the other soft" included tod support. Yeah, he does not just know how to "use" free code from others developpers, but he "use" ideas of others too
  • New GUI 'Studio' (and renamed):
  • Prettier
  • More readable (I did not have enough space).
  • Ready for future versions (…to follow)
  • Major bugfix for Tiger:
  • Exotic characters (like accents) in the name of yours files/folders/disks will not produce errors anymore (Apple only corrected this bug in Leopard).
  • Now you can name your files with these characters é, ï, ñ, ß… ;).
  • Minor new features and bug fixes:
  • Better memory management.
  • Fixed a bug introduced in the previous version with non-saveable .MOV.
  • Handles anamorphic mpeg4.
  • Correction of "The Ben-Hur correction" (see MC version 1.3)
  • Lot of details…

New in MovieConverter-Studio 1.3 (Aug 28, 2008)

  • Aspects 4:3 and 16:9 are managed within a single DVD (MC will isolate videos for you according to their aspect).
  • If your MPEG was not DVD compatible, MC will propose to you to correct its wrapper (it's fast and it avoids the predictable failures).
  • Creating a menu with thumbnails for easy access to each track.
  • If you author more than 9 videos, MC will create as many sub-menus as necessary, so that each track will have its direct access (and always its thumbnail).
  • Each sub-menu will let you read -in 1 click- all the videos contained in a sub-menu (button "read all").
  • Display automatically the subtitles you patiently included in your MPEG (but you can always turn them off with the remote control ;)).
  • Automatic selection of button in the menu -at the end of reading- on the track you just readed (it is for lazy people like me who do not want to play continuously with the arrows of the remote control, to simply access to the next track).
  • The sequence of a 4:3 video to another 16:9 one will not produce distortion, temporary one but usually visible during broadcasting.
  • and many others ergonomic details…
  • The "check field order" tool was not QuickTime 7.4 or later compatible.
  • Modification of some interface behaviors (to limit users mistakes and to avoide some Apple's AppleScript bugs).
  • In one case, there was possibility to launch again "batch mode" during a "batch mode".
  • Better framerate detecton of long .flv.
  • Better extraction of some rare audio files (such as old trailers from the french web site "commeaucinema.com").
  • Better detection of some rare interlaced files detected as progressive (the DVB-T from the French channel "France4" for example).
  • "The Ben-Hur correction": even your very, very long movies will no longer be truncated (and try with other apps to see what they do ;)).
  • Tools Pulldown: more robust process (though it remains somewhat uncertain with mpeg files, if you have time enough, prefer to demux - correct your video elementary stream - and to re-mux them).
  • A new management of .mov files to limit Perian 1.1 side effects.
  • In the Main window, an approximated BUT QUICK management of .m2ts (videos from HD camcorder or Blu-Ray).
  • "Batch mode" was buggy if it contained several files with the same name to encode.
  • Full management of files containing "%" in their name or their path (previously they was not multiplexed and no thumbnails was produced).

New in MovieConverter-Studio 1.2 (Apr 23, 2008)

  • Compatible with QuickTime 7.4 version and later. MC remains compatible with earlier versions.
  • Conversion from interlaced NTSC VIDEO->PAL has now the same quality than other processes (it wasn't true before).
  • A far better compatibility with output for DVD and very strict DVD Hardware Players (do not dream, better does not mean perfect, but the rate of "possible freezes" are reduced by 5 to 8).
  • (Intel only) Speed: the "good" quality with FFmpeg encoding is now almost as good as "superior" (but much faster :-)) so use it.
  • New interface, same on Tiger and Leopard (the drawer's look differed between system versions, thanks to Apple designers).
  • New button to access to "Tools (MC's Additional functions)" (nobody realized they existed ;-)).
  • Management of subtitles
  • Handles text subtitles (srt, ssa).
  • Support every encoding, from MacRoman to japonese, cyrillic,� (but the first loading of an .srt will be a little slow).
  • Keep subtitle synchronization even in case of standard conversion.
  • Fix: iMovie decoding (interlaced videos decoded by QuickTime) was "broken" since the last FFmpeg update (so during version 1.1).
  • Fix: A stupid failure with the NTSC Film encoding with quality "fast".
  • Fix: In some cases, the MC's ability to cut introduction of your videos, induced an out-of-synch.

New in MovieConverter-Studio 1.1 (Jan 30, 2008)

  • Compatibility Leopard.
  • A better management of DVB streams (DigitalVideoBroadcasting), included HD streams.
  • Handle "EyeTV" meta-packages (now MovieConverter accepts the drag'n'drop of ".eyetv" files on its icon). (and MovieConverter can still correct the -often- buggy DV export produced by your EyeTV ;-)).
  • Better controls to avoid the innumerable bugs in files produced by the DivX Pro encoder.
  • Major Correction: "field rate": the encoding of videos with many frames-per-second (50fps in PAL and 60fps in NTSC) is now treated correctly (including in the event of conversion of standard PALNTSC).
  • Many minor corrections