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Yeeeeessssssss!

Now if only Roxio would release Cinnamon. Then I could have in my dock Cinnamon, Toast, Crunch.

so...they rebranded popcorn?

Isn't VisualHub half that price?

Harriett,
I sincerely hope you are joking. Otherwise, please confine your commentary to relevant issues on this forum. Despite the behavior of some, there are many, many places on the web where people can share their political views. This is news and commentary site about the Mac. Can we all just please stay on topic?
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I've just installed the new CS3 Design standard package from Adobe on my 17" Macbook Pro...it's going to take some getting used to... but so far it's fast, and works seamlessly. The older software, running under Rosetta was getting to be a real pain.
If you have an intel Mac...don't hesitate to upgrade. It works.

How exactly does Roxio's Crunch differ from the VisualHub conversion tool from Techspansion which only costs $23.32? VisualHub converts to and from nearly every video format to iPod/AppleTV, PSP, DV, DVD, TiVo, AVI, MP4, WMV, MPEG and Flash.

Ok..so Harriet's post was deleted...THANKS! and now I'm the one off topic..jeez..

Crunch looks GREAT...I've used Roxio software for a long time and it's generally high quality stuff. This looks to be a great one and well priced.

whos harriett ?

$50 for something that one or two open source tools can do for free (or a small donation). And that without the punitive upgrade path typical of Roxio apps.

Thanks but no thanks.

GWB is great!

At least someone is putting some tools out there that make things better for the Mac users. Rock on Roxio!

Crunch seems pretty dull. Convenient, but that's it. So let's bring back Harriett with some more off-topic posts to liven things up around here.

Come on, Harriett!

I just bought VisualHub the other day, it works OK, but it doesn't seem to recognize chapter markers and when I put a .jpg in for artwork, it shows fine in iTunes, but in Front Row, it previews the movie? Not sure if that is VH, or something I am not doing right in iTunes.

I also fail to see the difference between this and Visual Hub. Is there one? It's not like it's going to be able to do the conversion piece four times as fast or anything, so is it the interface?

These guys are late to the party and want twice as much money for the beer...

biggest problem?

no FFMPEG encoding.

QT has issues transcoding h.264 to mpeg-2.

And when i say "issues", i mean, a 1 hour video took 14 hours to convert to mpeg-2 (for a DVD) with QT vs. 15 minutes using FFMPEG to do it in VisualHub on my quad 3.0 MacPro.

VisualHub is sick nice and its always being improved... as soon as they add in batching jobs (you can transcode 50 videos with the same settings, but only 1 set of settings at a time) - it will be perfect.

I doubt Crunch does this but Visual Hub is works with Xgrid, to use your other computers on the network to take some of the CPU load.

Dang, I missed Harriet? I gotta get up earlier.

MDN word is Music, as in I work in music and am up way too late at night to keep up with the early bird posts.

Didn't know about VisualHub. Looks sweet.

Well, it looks like the one excuse I have not to get an AppleTV just went away.

When I got my AppleTV I was disappointed to find the limited video format support. I research and found VisualHub. It is great. I wish more people where aware of it. It is a must have program for anyone converting popular internet formats for use on a Mac, iPod, or AppleTV.

Hey , I love this site.

I wnt software for finding a girl...

Yup, they re branded popcorn and want everyone to pay for it all over again. Roxio loves squeezing every penny out of its customers charging ridiculously high prices for there upgrades.

...I wnt software for finding a girl...

Won't find it here. They delete girls here [Harriet].

Is it packed with peanuts? And what the hell is nougat, anyway? Not what they tell you. What it REALLY is. I want to know.

"software for finding a girl"

I'm not sure but I think you can find a few bargains on eBay. The last time I looked they were all named Meg. Weird, huh?

Also, I think Madeleine Albright is still available for downloading from Kidnappster. They just ran out of Lucy Liu. I had a coupon somewhere.

Do any of the video converters work with DVDs created with iDVD?
For when you no longer have the iMovie files you created it with in the first place.

I have fairly good luck with VisualHub. Tyler is pretty good about jumping on problems and getting back.

For a different reason, I have Toast, and I love it. (especially with real butter and homemade blackberry jam)

MTR rounds it out, but I have had better luck with 3.0 r12 than r14.

'Do any of the video converters work with DVDs created with iDVD?'

I would think Handbrake/Mediafork would be ok for iTunes, and VH should be able to handle them for everything as long as there is no DRM.

For you guys looking at either VisualHub or Crunch just for ripping to an iPod check out iSquint, it'll do just about all the video formats that VisualHub does but will automatically format it correctly for the iPod, and it's free.

About Freaking Time.

Mpeg streamclip
FFMPEGX
Mac the ripper
Handbrake

All you need, all basically free(ffmpegx does bother you for a donation-latest mtr requires a donation).

If Crunch is anything like Toast, it will do a shocking job of video conversion compared to ffmpegx (shareware), visualhub, or isquint (free).

i took the liberty of putting both visual hub and roxio crunch to the test. I converted the Avi file movie of MusicAndLyrics...
Here's what i discovered

Crunch vs Visual Hub
The program looks much nicer and more visualy apealing but compared to Visual Hub the performance of this program sucked

Visual Hub takes me about an hour or less to convert to the highest quality possible for ipod... 720X400 resolution 2000bps
stereo 4800hz
On Crunch it took 2 hours + to convert it into an ipod movie in the highest quality possible and the results were not very impressive. picture quality was poor.

I've still yet to try converting for an apple TV but first i'd have to buy one... I predict Visual Hub wins in this area as well with the h.264 video quality...