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SimpleMovieX... Enter the age of Personal Video. Easy and fun. And here are a few examples of why you will use it:

Brend: "I record TV programs and then I remove all the commercials. It's fast, it's clean."

Alvaro: "After the week-end, my mobile phone is full of 3gp shorts, I pass them to my iBook and convert them in one shot. On Monday I share with my friends."

Adrian: "I have tons of DVDs with music concerts, and I want to split them into songs, then put them in iTunes."

Fabrice: "My digital camera can also record short movies, but the sound is not well syncronized"

Mel: "I'm compiling all those Stephen Colbert videos that I've found in Google Video into a 90 minutes program."

Richard: "Legal depositions are recorded in MPEG format. I use SimpleMovieX to prepare them for court."

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WHAT'S NEW
Version 3.7:

NEW Features:

  • Support for multi-audio movies. Possible to select language, remove unused audio tracks.
  • Metadata is now detected. SimpleMovieX can visualize it and proposes MetaX and iTunes to edit it.
  • Movie Information now reports languages, media source references and metadata.
  • Poster Frame can be set in mov and mp4 files.
  • Unicode encoding is used for Chapter names if required. Perfect compatibility with iTunes.
  • Edition of Chapter markers is much faster now. Editing clips is also significantly faster.
  • Chapter markers can now have the same name (except consecutive ones)
  • Integrated Software Update module, that displays description and let you skip or download update.
  • Safer MP4 saving in place.

FIXED Issues:
  • Incompatibilities between tagging with iTunes or MetaX, and MP4 chaptered files written by SimpleMovieX.
  • MP4 files containing a hidden chapter track are now detected. SimpleMovieX shows the chapter track if you want.
  • Pasteboard Text content was overwritten by "Corrupted Movie" after relaunching SimpleMovieX.
  • After a crash or Force Quit, SimpleMovieX was no longer able to restore edited documents (Autosave)
  • Files without name extension (mov, dv, ...) do not open. (Fix applies to Tiger and Leopard only)
  • Protected and compressed QuickTime movies still cannot open, but now give the appropriate message.
  • Audio resync in AVI files was not always be kept after saving.

SWEATING the Interface details:
  • New keyboard shortcuts for navigation to avoid conflict with Leopard Spaces.
  • Smarter chapterizing flow, with automatic focus switch between timeline, search and chapter pane. Easier to use than to explain.
  • Added "Paste Chapters at current time" to avoid confusion. Regular "Paster Chapters" now always works as expected.
  • Information and Warning dialogs that tend to be repetitive can now be skipped.
  • A warning dialog is shown for MP4 movies with several audio tracks.
  • Non-obstrusive info button added to window if the movie contains special features (multi-audio, metadata, ...)
  • Position of a new document window now returns to default if all windows have been closed.
  • Scan automatically starts when Search Pane opens.
  • Hovering on a movie in Gallery displays its full path.
  • Snapback button disappears when it has been used.
REQUIREMENTS
Mac OS X 10.3.9, 10.4.x or 10.5x. QuickTime 7 (Pro not required)


SCREENSHOT

Developer:Aero Quartet
Downloads:25,376
  - Version d/l:617
Multimedia & Design:Video
License:Shareware
Date:22 May 2008
Platform:PPC/Intel
Price:$35.00
RATING
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    SimpleMovieX User Reviews (9 posts)Write A Review
    Jun 19 2008
    *****

    IAMSE7EN  I have been using SimpleMovie for a few years now, and I could not be happier with its progress and development. It has become faster, more stable, and more feature-rich.

    I use SimpleMovie to do all my censoring of R-rated movies. I’ve become so good and fast at it, that I have friends and family grabbing my edited movies on a daily basis. If it were legal, I would start a company, and ’simply’ use SimpleMovieX.

    The power of SimpleMovieX is best demonstrated when I edited The Departed. I was editing a 2 GB mp4 file (.avi is always a disaster waiting to happen), and I quickly took out 256 f-words, and a hundred or so more inappropriate terms.

    It took many hours, but SimpleMovieX was reliable, stable, and easy to use.

    Movie files are sometimes quite unstable, especially synchronization issues. However, I have been impressed with the sync tool within SimpleMovie. It isn't perfect, but it's the best solution out there without converting the movie file a 3rd time.

    Also, Benoît Joossen (the creator) has been fantastic. One of the updates created a new style where the selection didn't follow the playhead. I sent him an email, and within the day, he had a new version of SimpleMovie with a preference in the Editing tab, where you change it back to the old method. Talk about customer service!

    This is one app that is very worthy of its price. You will get great support with constant application updates and enhancement.  (Version 3.7)

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    May 9 2008

    USER NAME  This is by far the easiest app to add Chapters to iPod compliant mp4 files. However, normally QuickTime ignores the Chapter markers if the filename is not .m4v but QuickTime strangely recognise this app's Chapters no matter the filename extension is .mp4 or .m4v. I'm not sure if that's a good thing, so I make sure I rename accordingly.

    One major quirk is iTunes cannot add the Album Artwork to mp4 files created by this app. I overcome it by re-exporting the file in QuickTime (using mpeg4 with "pass-thru" video & audio). The newly exported mp4 is now QuickTime compliant and supports Album Cover. Needless to say, the file extension must be .m4v for QuickTime to show the chapter selector.  (Version 3.6.3)

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    May 9 2008

    USER NAME  This is by far the easiest app to add Chapters to iPod compliant mp4 files. However, normally QuickTime ignores the Chapter markers if the filename is not .m4v but QuickTime strangely recognise this app's Chapters no matter the filename extension is .mp4 or .m4v. I'm not sure if that's a good thing, so I make sure I rename accordingly.

    One major quirk is iTunes cannot add the Album Artwork to mp4 files created by this app. I overcome it by re-exporting the file in QuickTime (using mpeg4 with "pass-thru" video & audio). The newly exported mp4 is now QuickTime compliant and supports Album Cover. Needless to say, the file extension must be .m4v for QuickTime to show the chapter selector.  (Version 3.6.3)

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    Nov 14 2007

    PL_SVN  Maybe I'm alone on this (I sent a couple of emails to the developer but he never answered): under Leopard if you save (even without editing it) an "mp4" file... well... it will just desappear! Be warned.  (Version 3.5.1)

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