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Browse Video Reviews

Review: VHS capture tools compared
If you have a box of VHS slowly deteriorating in the basement, use these tools to convert them.
Review: ScreenFlow 2
ScreenFlow 2 adds transitions, audio ducking, clip playback speed adjustment, and more to the screen recording and editing suite.
Review: Camtasia for Mac
The newest entrant in the screen recording market introduces some new features, but also comes with a few bugs and limitations.
Review: Gorilla 4.5.5 (Pro Edition)
Gorilla is a deep and comprehensive set of tools designed to help you plan and execute the logistics of a video or film shoot. It’s targeted to independent productions from student projects to million-dollar features, as well as commercial and corporate video projects.
Review: Final Cut Pro 7
With Final Cut Pro 7, Apple started with an already excellent market-leading video editing tool and takes it further with significant improvements that will benefit editors doing realistic day-to-day tasks, and enable them to get better work done even faster.
Review: Soundtrack Pro 3
From a videographer's standpoint, the new version of Soundtrack Pro constitutes a worthy upgrade. A large number of significantly more efficient features get the same work done faster and better.
Review: Compressor 3.5
Compressor, the video compression uis now more powerful and easier to use–a win-win proposition
Review: Motion 4
in Motion 4, Apple continues to enhance the realism of motion graphics with new rendering capabilities to simulate shadows, reflections, and depth of field.
Plex media center software competes with Front Row
If you have an even moderately large media library and like the idea of having everything neatly catalogued and readily available at the press of a button, or if you simply like watching high-definition movies, then you should try Plex.
Cooliris helps showcase photos and videos
Cooliris is a super-handy browser plug-in that lets you scope out images and video content in a unique way, displaying everything in a full-screen, horizontally expanded, interactive 3-D “wall” view.
VideoDrive makes video file conversions easy
VideoDrive aims to make video conversions easy.
PhotoPresenter helps make creative slideshows
Rife as Mac OS X already is with slide-show capabilities, PhotoPresenter builds onto those and puts many more options and styles at your fingertips.
iMovieLocationEditor helps edit iMovie's locations
If you want to use the same custom location several times in iMovie '09, you can use iMovieLocationEditor to edits iMovie’s locations.
ManyCam lets your iSight work with multiple applications at once
Typically, while using your Mac’s iSight camera with one program, you can’t use it with another. But ManyCam frees iSight from this restriction.
Clipstart, for all your video-organizing needs
Riverfold Software's Clipstart is to video clips what iTunes is to music, or iPhoto is to digital pictures. It's a handy one-stop shop for keeping track of all the video clips you film.
Review: iMovie ’09
iMovie ’09 has caught up with iMovie HD and surpassed it in features and performance. There are enough improvements in iMovie ’09 that I think it is no longer competing with iMovie HD, but instead with Final Cut Express.
Review: Avid Media Composer 3.0
Avid Media Composer 3.0.5 is a must-have if you or anyone in your facility work with the emerging HD formats popularized by card-based camera systems.
RipIt 1.1.5
RipIt is the easiest way we've seen to get your DVDs onto your hard drive.
Review: Premiere Pro CS4
Premiere Pro CS4 strengthens Premiere’s reputation on the Mac as a capable video-editing program. For those who already have an allegiance to other programs in the Creative Suite—but not to another video editing system—Premiere Pro CS4 will be tempting.
Review: iTunes 8
iTunes 8 isn’t a revolution in media players, but its new features make an already capable application even more indispensable
Review: TubeStick Hybrid USB TV tuner
If you want to watch TV on your Mac, the TubeStick Hybrid, Equinux’s USB TV Tuner, may just be the ticket. It’s easy to use, delivers a surprising volume of high-quality standard- and high-definition channels, and is reasonably priced. However, those great features are somewhat diminished by a variety of distracting performance issues.
TransformMovie 1.1
Ever record a video on your point-and-shoot camera while holding the camera in portrait mode? Your recorded videos are still in landscape mode, so your videos are tilted sideways. To rotate your videos to the proper position, consider TransformMovie 1.1.
MetaX 2.4.5
Use MetaX to fill in missing tag data.
Review: Final Cut Server 1.1
Final Cut Server is a client-server-based workflow tool that can potentially help you in three ways: in cataloging and searching assets, especially video-based assets; with version control through check-in and check-out capabilities and approval; and with automation capabilities to convert, copy, and execute scripts.
Lostify 0.7
Lostify gives you complete control over tagging your MPEG-4 files with data such as episode name, episode number, series title, season number, and file kind.
ScreenFlow 1.0.2
ScreenFlow captures on-screen audio and video, and presents it in an onscreen editor that will remind you of Final Cut or iMovie HD.
Review: Microsoft Expression Media 1.0
This long-forgotten media management program joins the Microsoft Office 2008 lineup as an alternative to iPhoto, Aperture, and Adobe Lightroom.
Review: Final Cut Express 4
If you’re an iMovie user feeling limited by its capabilities—or you’ve chosen to skip the revamped iMovie ‘08 altogether—Final Cut Express 4 is a great way to jump into semi-professional video editing at a fraction of the cost of Final Cut Studio.
Review: MediaCentral 2.6
With some improvements to video playback and performance, and some revisions to the user manual, MediaCentral has the potential to be a powerful piece of software that will turn your Mac into an entertainment center.
Review: Popcorn 3 video converter
Popcorn 3 is a solid upgrade to an already useful application for Mac movie enthusiasts looking to get the most out of their video entertainment, thanks to the addition of TiVoToGo support among other features.