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EDITOR NOTES
Posted at the developer's site, today, October 3, 2008:
"After much soul-searching (it's not you, it's me), for personal reasons, Techspansion is closing its virtual doors.
The Support Forum and Support E-mail will be available for a while longer to take care of any remaining issues for you.
Thanks for all your support. It's been a fun ride."
DESCRIPTION
iSquint is an iPod video conversion app for Mac OS X. It's many times faster than QuickTime Pro, works with almost all popular video formats, and it's infinitely free-er. It's also really easy. Just drag in your file, and click Start. You can also choose "TV" or "iPod" size, set your quality, or even go all-out by playing in the Advanced drawer.
On a 1GHz G4, iSquint can convert most video files to iPod-screen-sized videos in realtime. Intel Macs are up to twice as fast, and can convert videos upwards of 5x realtime! Depending on a few factors, a 20 minute video will take up anywhere from 50-150MB of disk space.
Features:
- Fast MPEG-4 and H.264 conversion from almost every popular video format, from 3GP to XviD.
- QuickTime Pro and DivX codec not required.
- DivX and XviD AVIs, all forms of MPEG video, and many other formats QuickTime chokes on are supported.
- Batch Processing of multiple files. Save in-place, or to a different folder.
- Automatic aspect ratio detection. Anamorphic MPEG-2 and HDV detected too.
- Quality slider. Leave it as is to trust me, mess with it if you know better, or completely ignore it and play with the...
- Advanced settings drawer. Change every aspect of the conversion process.
- Multithreaded for multi-processor computers.
- Just a few of the supported formats: .mov .mp4 .avi .dv .mpg .vob .3gp .asf .wmv .flv .m4v
WHAT'S NEW
Version 1.5.2:
- Certain types of files converted to plain MPEG-4 no longer show up without video in QuickTime Player 7.4 and higher.
- iSquint now includes a program droplet called "Debreaker" to repair damaged "no video" .mp4 files created by earlier versions of iSquint.
- Tiny files that finish ridiculously quickly are no longer assumed to be errors.
- Turkish Localization by Ugur Sofra.
REQUIREMENTS
Mac OS X 10.3.9 or later.
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| iSquint User Reviews (131 posts) | Write A Review |
 | Sep 28 2008 |
ITOOKHISFLUTE The application is small, minimalistic, but can do all kinds of jobs and does them bloody quickly too. My application of choice for turning FLV content from youtube into iPod viewable files in seconds, and feature length AVIs in impressively short periods of time. Well worth the tiny download, there should be more clean-edged tools like this available free for mac!
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 | Sep 10 2009 |
RMENDES Hope your personal reasons that took you away from this project are going fine, but please considering in returning. iSquint is the best app I've seen to get it's job done.
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| Feb 23 2009 |
POIKKEUS There are many MP4 converters out there, some costing $30-40 - and most not worth the investment. iSquint is an exception - easy to use, clean interface, works fast. This is especially useful reducing the size of media for the iPod Touch, and you have a choice of video and audio quality to choose from. And it's free, the best price. (I had purchased my copy long ago.) iSquint's one flaw may lie with its handling of MP4 files. Typically, a one-hour avi file can be compressed in a little over twenty minutes. However, compressing an equivalent MP4 file may take over a day. To be fair, it may be hard to find a converter anywhere to do the job quickly. One feature I would have liked is the ability to halt and restart jobs, but that's only critical when MP4s are involved.
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| Jan 30 2009 |
DANA16181 Simple to use program, doesn't take that much time to process... About 15 minutes for high quality, and it's free! What more can you ask for?
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| Dec 13 2008 |
CANADIANPJ I could not ask for anything more in a conversion program. Lightweight and simple to use. It is really to bad there will be no more updates to this software.
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| Oct 22 2008 |
NEONBLUE2 iSquint has gone open source as PunyVid. http://transcoderredux.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/transcoderredux/
(Version 1.5.2) | |
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| Aug 10 2008 |
BIGJMACNHASH Definitely THE go to movie file converter for iPod
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| Jul 8 2009 |
STEVEW The video format/software/conversion world is a mess so I understand why the developer is dropping out but having just now (7/7/09) found iSquint I must say I'm sorry to see them go. I had a video that nothing else (Flip4Mac, Handbrake, VLC etc) could handle but just for kicks I gave iSquint a try and - poof - instant perfect MP4 video. No settings - just drag and drop. Excellent! Download this while you can! Thanks for all your hard work and best wishes.
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| Jul 8 2009 |
STEVEW Oops - posted a comment vs review... | |
| Oct 8 2008 |
CORPSECORPS Unfortunately, developer has discontinued work on his Mac apps. 8^(
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| Aug 1 2008 |
AKCOOK I used iSquint to change a file type - a video file type and was surprised, it worked. For the last year I thought that my old clips from my still Sony were doomed to be audio-less if I wanted to use them in an iMovie video. This software lets me keep the audio and the quality is great! | |
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