Miglia’s VideoExpress is a hardware-based video file converter enabling you to turn your unprotected DVDs and QuickTime or MPEG files into h.264, the format readable by your AppleTV, video-capable iPod, or iPhone. VideoExpress speeds up the process of converting your files, giving you a fast way to make h.264 files.
Plug VideoExpress into a USB 2.0 port of your Mac, launch the software and you’re all set to go. The wide range of presets enable you to choose exactly the format you want, letting you create h.264 videos for your AppleTV, iPhone or iPod.
Whether you’re a Final Cut, iMovie or QuickTime Pro user, the included QuickTime plug-in which lets you convert your projects into h.264 without ever leaving the application.
Key Features
• High speed video file conversion to h.264
• Convert unprotected DVD’s into the space saving h.264 format
• Turn your TV recordings and videos into iPod, iPhone, and Apple TV ready files
• Includes QuickTime Plug-in. Export straight out of iMovie, Final Cut and many more apps.
Converting your TV recordings with VideoExpress is easy. Drag and drop your video file onto the VideoExpress software application, choose a target format and press “Start.” The result will be an .mp4 file in h.264 quality that takes up to half as much space on your hard drive. This makes VideoExpress a good companion to any TV Tuner product.
The US$100 VideoExpress supports QuickTime as well as MPEG-2 recorded files, making it fully compatible with digital TV tuners. VideoExpress works in conjunction with “The Tube” software, which powers several Miglia TV tuners.
Of course, apart from accelerating the conversion process, VideoExpress also takes much of the load off your Mac’s processor, enabling you to keep working on your other projects.
More info here.
or…Handbrake or iSquint. Both free.
Shawn,
Those are software converters, not hardware converters.
But will it BLEND? That is the question.
Actually, this thing sounds great. Supports 740×480 formatting.
Does it have to stream the data over USB2 to process it? Seems it would be slower than IDE or SATA
Oh, dammit, now I feel dumb. Well, I use them to convert my videos and DVDs. Thought it was the same kind of thing. Oh well, at least I was first!!!
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Wouldn’t it be neat if you could use as many of them as you could plug into the computer at once?
erm, so its the same as elgatos turbo 264 (both probably the same)
I thought I was being clever, just popping in a DVD and, you know, playing it. I didn’t realise I spend time and computer cycle converting it to a new format, and then storing it on my computer, which is rapidly filling up with movies, by the way, burt that’s OK, I’ll just buy more storage. Anyhoo, now I can play the movie using AppleTV, which rocks!!! Too bad the quality isn’t that great, but it’s not the point, is it? Now I look down on those who simply load a DVD into a DVD player. Losers–you don’t know what you’re missing.
The ElGato product works with eyeTV. I’d have to preprocess my tv shows to use this Miglia stick.
looking forward to benchmarks comparing it with the turbo264. it would be asking too much for MDN to actually do something as simple as that.
Not all that useful if it can’t convert protected DVD’s. I don’t see that much of a market for converting unprotected content. Handbrake works great, does protected DVD’s and is free!
@spitting….
some of us have to have those other formats besides DVD for editing, or putting on our ipods for the kids to watch on those long car trips, etc, etc, etc…
and anything that speeds that process up is a good thing.
not to mention that if your AppleTV picture looks bad you should try looking at your wiring.
troll elsewhere.
shmuck.
This product is a hardware encoder-it takes the conversion away from the cpu.
That is the point-supposedly through the hardware encoder it speeds up H.264 conversion, which takes forever through handbrake, mpeg streamclip, etc.
Clicked the link to Miglias site and this thing isn’t even mentioned !!
This is another version of the device that Elgato and ADS have been selling for a while now.
-jcr
This is another version of the device that Elgato and ADS have been selling for a while now.
-jcr
This is another version of the device that Elgato and ADS have been selling for a while now.
-jcr
This is another version of the device that Elgato and ADS have been selling for a while now.
-jcr
It amazes me that reactions are so quick, a little investigation shows that the device looks nothing like Elgato or ADS (both identical but priced miles apart), it is a hardware accelerator (faster than iSquint or Handbrake), the link takes you straight to the product page (after the sponsored link) and if its half as good as the TVMax+ which does iPod and Apple TV formats without ANY post processing, then I’ll buy 2. Miglia have a reputation for making kick-ass hardware, I hope this makes the same grade. I notice also that the home page http://www.miglia.com has a very neat (and funny) video running (Quicktime) on the product.
I just ordered the ElGato Turbo.264 last night after reading how much faster it encoded video than just using Quicktime. With the Turbo.264, its just about 1 to 1. That means 1 hour of video converts in just about 1 hour. Using Quicktime by itself on my Dual G5 2.0ghz, 1 hour of video takes at least 4 to 5 hours to convert.
@ Spitting image
I’ve tried every way I can think of, and I still can’t seem to fit a DVD into my iPhone. How did you accomplish this?
-c
MW: ‘stfu’ (not really)
If it doesnt process protected DVD’s then you have to spend time stripping the protection with another program just to get to the .vob file. So how much time have you really saved? It took Handbrake about 60 minutes to convert a protected DVD movie to an Apple TV format. I agree use Handbrake its free.
-f
Why don’t you just buy a windows PC and use the parallel port to control a gun to shoot your mac?
There are many formats in the world.MP3,MP4,avi,rmvb…..
Which format your machine support?
Don’t bother for that.
Just get a video converter.
http://www.dvd-video-converters.com/