MovieConverter Studio 1.53

MovieConverter Studio 1.53 is designed as a helpful tool to make a DVD-Video or to convert for editing (HD & DV) whitout losing quality.

Major Features:

1.  HD Converter
   • Convert -for free- your AVCHD, TOD and Sanyo videos to QuickTime compatible files, to edit thm in iMovie (HD and '08/'09) or FinalCut.
   • Preview these files -usually illegible- before conversion.
   • More controls than with iMovie or FinalCut: convert to a progressive or interlaced output, and to your chose size (MovieConverter Studio will conform them for you ;)).
   • Correctly handles AVCHD videos in 60 and 50fps, AVCHD wrapped in .MPG (ToshibaA40FE), and progressive AVCHD (LumixFZ7).
2. DVD-Video
   • Automatically create a DVD-Video with menus (and submenus), thumbnails and captions (3 minutes maximum to prepare all your DVD settings)
   • With a file from encoding SD module, or directly reuse your EyeTV files, videos from your JVC Everio camcorder,…
   • Import your files: MCS offers to conform them if they

     Enhancements:

     • Compatibility with Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard,
     • and still compatible with Tiger and Leopard (intel & PPC).
     • New option to clean "hardcoded pulldown" movies (NTSC badly encoded movies with frames duplication).
     • Fix a bug with DV output and some audios.
     • Mux module: Fix/add compatibility of buggy AC3 file. Subtitles: preview the "character encoding" before process. Subtitles: fix their synchronization.
     • Mux/Demux/DVD-Video modulesEncodage 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.