Category: Photo & Film & Capture

Joyoshare Media Cutter review

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Version 3.2.0Developer Joyoshare
Website https://www.joyoshare.com/

 

 

ABOUT JOYOSHARE MEDIA CUTTER

Joyoshare, as an industry-leading multimedia software developer in the world, is mainly focused on providing professional and ultimate video and audio solutions to customers worldwide. Despite of the awards and reputation we already obtained in video converting market, Joyoshare will always keep up the good work to develop new programs and applications for a growing number of platforms all the time. Until now, millions of satisfied customers from more than 100 countries over the world have been served by Joyoshare products and services. And the number of active users is fast growing every single day.

 

INSTALLATION 

Installation of this application requires no extra files or reboot. Its all simple and straightforward! You probably are into video and media as this application is able to Cut, Edit and Merge video and audio files. Moreover, it is also a lossless video joiner that can merge multiple footages from the same source into a new file with 100% original quality at a fast speed. These features and easy use should provide a nice clean tool for doing all these jobs with no extra skills needed.

 

MAIN FEATURES

Cut Videos/Audios with Zero Quality Loss ! Are you fed up with titles of a film or ads in some videos and really want to remove those unwanted segments? Joyoshare Media Cutter is a good choice for you to crop unwanted scenes and keep exciting film footages. It can trim all popular video and audio files, including HD videos, web videos, general videos and audios, etc. It also enables you to export videos onto various fashionable devices, such as Apple, Samsung, game consoles, smart TV, etc. 

Video cutting is mentioned to be 60x faster than others. It might be in special circumstances, but usually I am happy with just fast and take any made statement for granted ( as their claim doesn’t mention a comparisation source ).

 

INTERFACE

A good and clean interface always make my day as aesthetics appeal to me and provide me with a feeling of quality expected. Joyoshare Media Cutter is not my top choice in terms of interface as it feels a bit outdated to be honest. All functions however are easily found and work really well and run smooth without any system impact noticeable.

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Supported file formats and codecs are numerous really. Encoding mode provides lots of presets made available for mobile phones and audio codecs. The presets cover most common formats/codecs available at todays market. There should always be a useful format for any user advanced or novice.

 

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Merge Video and Audio Files to Multiple Common Formats

 

 

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Merge Video files only works for files/fragments of the same video file ! A shame really as you are limited in this area not being able to merge two different video files. The next update should make this possible to make it more compatible to video editing. Joyoshare does mention this on their website as stated below.

 

This is not only a smart video cutter but also a professional video joiner, because it can merge multiple video and audio clips from the ‘same source video’ with a few clicks only. When you join videos or audios, there are two methods to set output format, including the high-speed mode and encoding mode. If you choose the first mode, you can get the videos/audios quickly with 100% original quality. While you select the encoding mode, you can customize the videos and audios according to your needs.

 

SUPPORTED FORMATS and CODECS

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VERDICT

Joyoshare Media Cutter is a nice and easy to use media cutter for any person looking for a editing tool. Its system impact is very low, which is good and formats/codecs are plenty. It does however restrict you to editing only the same source file and not different source files. Its interface will show you all available features easily as this application doesn’t take time to get used too. It’s price should help you make up your mind as it only costs $29.95 which is good.

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$ 29.95

Elmedia Player Pro review

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Version: 7.1Developer: Eltima Software
Website: http://mac.eltima.com/media-player.html

 

ELTIMA SOFTWARE

Eltima is a software developer for Windows and Mac related applications. They are in business for 16 years and provide smaller but useful utilities. SyncMate and Folx are some fine examples of their applications. Their media player application Elmedia Player Pro ( version 7.1 ) is a neat and practical and stable application which we will discuss in this review.

 

ELMEDIA PLAYER PRO

Eltima’s Elmedia Player is available in a free and paid PRO version. The differences are mentioned below. Your OS X system has its Quick Time player which is a fairly basic media player and supports not enough formats and features for the media enthusiast. Elmedia Player’s free version has impressive features what it can do and QuickTime Player is unable to: Open DVD VIDEO_TS folders, natively play FLV, SWF, XAP, DIVX, DAT, and other formats, internet browsing without leaving the application, compile media playlists, and open browser videos via optional bookmarklet. This is where free applications like VLC ( which is good ) and the free Elmedia Player present a much better media player allround.

So why opt for a paid media player like Eltima’s ‘Elmedia Player Pro’ which will set you back $ 19.95 ?
Its the ton’s of extra features in the Pro version that make you want the Pro version in order to use its full potential. Downloading from You Tube, streaming, converting and grabbing screens are options making the media enthusiast choose for this Pro version.

 

PRO’s EXTRA FEATURES

Additional features include downloading from the Internet – videos, their soundtracks, RTMP streams, animations, converting Flash EXE files into SWF format, taking still screenshots from the video, and much more.

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Progressive full-screen mode: You get to choose which monitor will play full-screen if you have more than one connected to your computer. Native macOS full-screen mode is supported.

Video tuner: You can control brightness, saturation, contrast, gamma, hue, noise reduction and sharpness of a currently playing video.

Continuous loop: Choose any part of a video to play continuously until you decide to stop it.

Screenshots : Make a screenshot of favourite movie moments or convert a whole movie into series of screenshots, while it is playing.

Deinterlacing: Forget about irritating horizontal stripes on fast moving objects in the playing video – enable deinterlace option in Elmedia.

Fine-tune audio delay: If an original video is not in sync with its audio, Elmedia can decrease or increase audio delay to make the sound match the on-screen action.

 

ELMEDIA PLAYER performance & PREFS

HD performance is great due to hardware accelerated decoding, Playing YouTube video via Open Online Video option of Elmedia Player you’ll see subtitles right where they belong. The free and paid Pro version include an in-app web browser, and can be used to parse video, audio, or Flash content from any URL.

 

DIFFERENCES FREE vs PAID

 

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AUDIO PLAY

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Native volume control: A volume control that does not affect the system volume is a pleasant bonus of a media player.
Support for external tracks: Possibility to load external soundtracks: all with video name, same name as video or all in folder.
AC-3/DTS through S/PDIF: Enable passthrough for hardware decoders – AC3 or DTS for surround audio.
Audio equalizer: A 10-band equalizer with various presets lets you create the perfect sound for the most pleasant experience.

 

WATCH ONLINE VIDEOS WITHOUT ADS

Open Online Video option allows you to access YouTube, Vimeo, and Dailymotion videos directly from the app. This way you get to watch favorite videos without ads, which you would otherwise have to watch through or wait to skip.

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STREAM VIDEO & AUDIO

Every format is supported: Stream audio and video in their native formats or transcoded in real time. AVI, FLV, MKV, 3GP supported.

Stream online videos without ads: Use Open Online Video option to stream content from YouTube, Dailymotion and Vimeo without any ads.

Ultra HD Videos: Stream up to 4K videos to 4K compatible devices like Chromecast Ultra, Apple TV 4K, Smart TV (Samsung , LG , Sony , Panasonic, etc.).

Stream with subtitles: If a video you are casting has subtitles, they can be streamed as well. Elmedia supports embedded as well as external subtitles.

Stream playlists: Throw together a neat playlist and then watch it on a larger screen uninterrupted.

Control streaming in the player: While streaming from Elmedia you can play, pause, seek, stop the video, and adjust the volume directly in the app.

 

DOWNLOAD VIDEO’s FROM WEB

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VERDICT

Elmedia Player Pro is a far more powerful alternative to QuickTime Player. The ability to download web material is a real bonus of the paid version. It’s slim interface and solid performance enabling you to deal with any video or media format makes it one of our top choices. Elmedia Player Pro also includes an in-app web browser. The newly added streaming features and refined interface makes this a full media player ready to take on any competitor.
The web integration sets new boundaries for a media player. So if you’re looking for a Swiss Army knife like media player, take a look at Elmedia Media player Pro!  I love it !

 

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$ 19.95

 

Digiarty Videoproc review

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Version 3.0Developer  Digiarty Software Inc.
Website https://www.videoproc.com/

 

ABOUT DIGIARTY

Established in 2006, Digiarty is a software company specialized in multimedia software solutions.

 

ABOUT VIDEOPROC 3.0

Digiarty VideoProc preserves the main feature of MacX Video Converter Pro for Mac, namely, video conversion. It uniquely adopts Intel QSV, NVIDIA CUDA/NVENC, and AMD powered level-3 hardware acceleration tech, thus converting, compressing and processing Blu-ray videos, HDTV/HD-camcorders videos, 4K UHD HEVC/H.264 videos, 1080p multi-track HD videos, standard MP4, MOV, AVI, MPEG and other videos 64x faster than real time.

Apart from fast video converter, VideoProc is also integrated with other useful and powerful tools, including video editor to cut, crop, merge, split and do other edit tasks, music converter to change audio formats, DVD converter to digitize discs, downloader to save online videos and music, and screen/webcam recorder. It is a piece of fully featured video processing software perfectly compatible with the newest macOS Mojave (32bit & 64bit) and lower systems.

It enables you to download videos and music and convert YouTube to MP4, MP3for offline playback. Over 320+ video and 50+ audio codecs help you to convert 4K UHD, MKV, AVCHD, M2TS, MP4, AVI, WMV, MOV, VOB, etcto any video or audio format. It offers the world’s first video converter supporting Intel QSV hardware acceleration, 16X faster than before and no quality loss. It also empowers you to record & capture screen video, make photo slideshow, and more.

 

INSTALLATION & PREFERENCES

Installing VideoProc 3.0 is done by dragging and dropping the application in your Mac Applications folder. Thats it, no more stuff to do. Now register your application and you’re all set for a discovery of all its settings and features. VideoProc 3.0 is LOADED with everything you could possibly want from a Video processing application and even ‘more’ !

VideoProc 3.0 is the absolute top application for anyone interested in editing video ! The updated interface is modern and well played out. Some screenshots of available codecs, formats and the toolbox are shown :

 

 

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So you must be impressed with this extremely well sorted and provided tools. We are anyway ! Its absolutely loaded with features.

CODECS & SPEED

So we’re about testing the speed and provided features/tools of VideoProc 3.0. The new interface is great and more up to date really.

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SUPPORTED VIDEO & CODECS 

This VideoProc 3.0 processing software supports 320+ video formats and 50+ audio formats, so that it can handle nearly any video or audio that you throw into it. It easily converts and compresses 4K/1080p HD videos between MKV, MP4, MOV, M2TS, AVCHD, AVI, MOD, TOD, HEVC/H.265, H.264, MPEG4, MPEG2, etc., and converts audios among MP3, AAC, M4A, M4R, FLAC, AIFF, OGG, etc.

PROCESSING SPEED

Equipped with Intel QSV, NVIDIA CUDA/NVENC, and AMD level-3 hardware acceleration tech, Hyper-threading technology, multi-core CPU utility, and AMD 3DNow! Tech, VideoProc can process videos at a speed of up to 5X faster than similar programs in the market while preserving 98% video audio quality of the original media file.

File used: .mov codec ; 500 Mb ; conversion to 4k best quality .mp4

VideoProc 3.0 tells you which codec supports Hardware Accelleration (HWAccel) or not. Change the quality setting to LQ(low Quality) or HQ(High Quality) and the conversion will take shorter or longer. Still VideoProc 3.0 is the fastest converter on this planet so you might as well choose HQ.

*remark:   Conversion speed depends on your Mac’s hardware configuration ! Our Mac’s are not the latest high tech versions but late 2013.

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Check this link for more info about HW Acell. https://www.videoproc.com/video-process/full-gpu-acceleration-benefits-4k-video.htm

 

All Profiles are nicely shown in the scroll list.

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BUILD IN YOU-TUBE DOWNLOADER , CAMERA and RECORDER

VideoProc 3.0 does not only provide converting tools but also contains a great screen recorder and recorder for iMacs iSight camera. Both record in good quality ( settings ( low, medium,high ), after finishing auto open your default media player.
This is just a feature-rich, high quality and really fast video converter having all the tools to make your life easier. Its just that simple in use that there’s really not much to discuss left. It does the job brilliant and even more, so are you looking for the best converter VideoProc 3.0 will not disappoint you.

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VERDICT

So we have finished testing VideoProc 3.0 and we are impressed with its performance, number of available codecs and additional tools like the screen recorder, camera recorder and ability to download straight from you-tube. It works really easy and fast with a quality finish of your precious video. I cannot find any real flaws in this product ! It absolutely is the best video converter/editing software combination application on the market, offering more then just a basic converter. It looks great, is loaded with features and tops it all with the fastest conversion time found ! The fantastic ‘Toolbox’ offers great options for editing your precious video. We have not found any competitor offering as many editing tools as VideoProc. So looking for the very best video converter/editing application around ? Look no further, this is a hard to beat application. Top scores all around 10 to of 10 !! Well done Digiarty.

 

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$ 42.95

 

Mac DVDripper Pro review

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Table DVDSuki Software Inc
Website https://www.macxdvd.com/

 

 

ABOUT DVDSuki Software Inc.

Company information of DVDSuki Software Inc. is limited on the internet. We did find it was established in 2009, and its founder is called Alex.  Well Alex certainly did a good job creating Mac DVDRipper Pro. The name is nearly the same as MacX DVDRipper Pro, but they are two different companies.

Back in 2009, Alex, founder of DVDSuki Software, was travelling through Europe. An experienced Mac developer, he started thinking about video processing software. During his trip he grew convinced that he could build a much simpler way to save a DVD on a Mac than existed at the time, and he got to work. By the end of his European holiday, Mac DVDRipper Pro 1 had been released.

MAC DVDRIPPER PRO

MAC DVDRipper Pro has been around for many years and is a real DVD Ripper tool intended for ripping a whole DVD or just main movies etcetera. The interface is I think the easiest of all DVD rippers. This is also because it doesn’t provide many or any further ripping or output choices.
This is your real WYSIWYG ( What You See Is What You Get ) ripper. No frills just rip a DVD in 64-bit M4V format using H.264 video codec.

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WHAT IS H.264

H.264 or MPEG-4 Part 10, Advanced Video Coding (MPEG-4 AVC) is a block-oriented motion-compensation-based video compression standard. As of 2014 it is one of the most commonly used formats for the recording, compression, and distribution of video content.[1]It supports resolutions up to 4096×2304, including 4K UHD.[2]

The intent of the H.264/AVC project was to create a standard capable of providing good video quality at substantially lower bit rates than previous standards (i.e., half or less the bit rate of MPEG-2, H.263, or MPEG-4 Part 2), without increasing the complexity of design so much that it would be impractical or excessively expensive to implement. An additional goal was to provide enough flexibility to allow the standard to be applied to a wide variety of applications on a wide variety of networks and systems, including low and high bit rates, low and high resolution video, broadcast, DVD storage, RTP/IP packet networks, and ITU-T multimedia telephony systems. The H.264 standard can be viewed as a “family of standards” composed of a number of different profiles. A specific decoder decodes at least one, but not necessarily all profiles. The decoder specification describes which profiles can be decoded. H.264 is typically used for lossy compression, although it is also possible to create truly lossless-coded regions within lossy-coded pictures or to support rare use cases for which the entire encoding is lossless.

 

FEATURES

Backup your DVDs

– DVDs can get scratched, broken, or lost. Create a DVD archive with MDRP.

Cut the Crud
– Rip just the movie. Ignore the trailers and ads.

Export to iTunes
– Our high quality M4V files can be dropped right into iTunes.

Soft Subtitles
– Subtitles can now be turned on and off using our next generation OCR engine!

Burn main-movie-only rips
– Make a backup of the main movie on a blank DVD, skipping the commercials

No BlueRay DVD’s
– BluRay’s and I guess the latest Disney DVD’s format are not supported !!

 

HOW DOES IT PERFORM

As mentioned earlier Mac DVDRipper Pro is a basic ripping application. You will not find any different output formats as the integrated M4V format. This application is most suitable for those only interested in a plain ripping tool. No movie Trim or Crop settings. Chapter choices is present, and presented by numbers but it doesn’t show the chapter name or content, so making choices needs to be done with the integrated Player which works well.
Choosing chapters is made into a visual concept that works really well.

Somehow I am unable to capture the movie screen playing, either with Capto or Camtasia or Mac’s Screendump. So the example below is (in realtime ) showing exactly the movie chapter playing. If you want to proceed just hit the next-button as shown in this example.

 

 

 

 

MDRP is not supporting Blu-Rays according to their website. It is wise to contact the developer if you need MDRP for ripping the latest DVD formats like Disney DVD. So MDRP is defenitly not as versatile as MacX DVDRipper Pro.
Mac DVDRipper Pro does have the best subtitles ripping of all. Font is clear nicely merged into the movie.
However it needs another third party application to change the M4V output file, for use on more systems ( Windows ) or hardware needing different movie-format !! The M4V format is mainly a strictly Apple / Mac format.

 

RIP-TIME MDRP vs MACX DVDRIPPER PRO

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M4V FORMAT

The M4V file format is a video container format developed by Apple and is very similar to the MP4 format. The primary difference is that M4V files may optionally be protected by DRM copy protection.

Apple uses M4V to encode video files in its iTunes Store. Unauthorized reproduction of M4V files may be prevented using Apple’s FairPlay copy protection. A FairPlay-protected M4V file can only be played on a computer authorized (using iTunes) with the account that was used to purchase the video. [1] In QuickTime, M4V videos using FairPlay DRM are identified as “AVC0 Media”.

 

VERDICT

So I have come up with some minor points for MDRP ( Mac DVDRipper Pro), but is it not good? If I would just want to use Mac’s and its M4V for a full ( or chapter ) DVD Rip, I would choose Mac DVDRipper Pro. Why you may ask? Because its the easiest ripper in this format and produces great output files with merged subtitles. Ripping speed is 100% slower then MacX DVDRipper Pro however, and its use is limited to just DVD format. Blu-Rays etc are not supported and this is where I feel MDRP is missing out compared to the competition. Blu-Ray is standard DVD format nowadays, so we need an application doing it all. Shame really as I feel MDRP is outstanding in use, video and subtitles quality.

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$ 24.95