I downloaded DeBabelizer Pro 6 just to see what these guys were up to, and after seeing everything they have done to the software, I was duely impressed. The ability to take an entire complex end to end workflow, with multiple saves, and image processes in between and encapsulate this in a single droplet is nothing short of awesome. After getting the free update (which I was notified of automatically with their update system), their new 6.1 is amazing. It comes with 12 sample droplets showing the new Quicktime 7 support including the ability to process multiple video outputs from a single droplet. I first used their standard ones and then quickly created my own "all video out" droplet and I now take my home DV files and drop it on there and in the morning I have 3 MP4's, 3 iPod (default and two smaller ones), 3 WMV's (using Flip4Mac) and a 3g for download and 3g streaming, are sitting, properly named in my video out folder. I process much media for the company I work for, constantly needing to put up web images and videos in different format, sizes and compressions, and this product makes it dreamy. Now I am looking at the server product because I saw a review in Mac Addict that gave them 5 stars and called the Server a "Manmoth Processing Powerhouse". These guys seem to have been gone so long because they are now on the bleeding edge.

This application is no dinosaur! With the inclusion of Quicktime 7 and the brand new DeBabelizer Server, content development and delivery has never been more streamlined.

With DB6, you can take a large movie and scale it down to cellphone size and bitdepth, all on the server, freeing up your workstation for continued production. When the job is complete, it will email or FTP the results to you!

Also for frequently run operations, full support of Automator in Tiger for both desktop and server is a great addition. I have done mobile gaming, and there is really no more affordable tool for converting frame rates, sizes, color spaces, and bit depths for the PlayStation Portable, Palm, PocketPC, and cellphone displays.

And for high definition game development, for XBOX 360 and Playstation 3, the ability to job out massive video conversion to the server is awesome, and the results are AUTOMATICALLY available to your workgroup on the server.

For other types of imaging work, full support of Photoshop plugins as available, you can even apply a plugin to a video, without having to buy Premiere or anything else. Photoshop layers are supported alos, so you can take any image and put it on a PDA, DVD, game console, web site, anything, anywhere. Like the Well, DB6 is another famous piece of Sausalito software finally realizing the full potential of our connected era.
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Information wants to be free -- because it is now so easy to copy and distribute casually -- and information wants to be expensive -- because in an Information Age, nothing is so valuable as the right information at the right time."

- Stewart Brand, Well co-founder.