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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 (127 posts) | Write A Review |
 | Jun 14 2009 |
STANLEY MARCHAL This is a great converter for non-power users. The result are good but not outstanding. But in general I like this very much. That said, it crashed on one of my avi video. It starts converting but somewhere at 50% of the complete file - 20mb - it freezes and doesn't to anything anymore. Other converters do not have this problem with the same file. All other videos I converter do work. Easy to use. Easy settings. Good end results.
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| Jun 9 2009 |
XEBRAWERX Worked perfectly to convert a captured Flash video from RealPlayer Downloader to Quicktime. Five stars all the way.
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| Jun 7 2009 |
PROMAX I have one question? Where are the options you need to increase quality of the videos? It's also clear this has been programmed by a Windows user. He needs to take a look at the OSX programmers guide asap. But in the end it works to convert to iPod movies etc... but lacks many important features found within other comparable converters.
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 | May 25 2009 |
MORGANLAYNE This program is so quick, easy, and reliable. I'm a new Mac user and was concerned about all of my avi files, but iSquint converted them quickly into a file compatible with my Mac. It converted a 9 minute video in less than 1 minute; literally. Great program.
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 | May 27 2009 |
PATDDFAN88 most of the youtube videos i downloaded with the new 'realplayer 11 downloader' can't be converted by isquint! any suggestions?
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| May 3 2009 |
MARIADECALI iSquint worked like a charm. No hassles, perfect. Kuodos to all ...
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| Apr 5 2009 |
RANDE_IS Finally, something that works!! I wasted an entire day downloading junk converter programs that promised the world. Since downloading iSquint I've deleted them all. I have high hopes for using this program in conjunction with TubeSock for capturing educational U Tubes. After TubeSock captures the files as FLV, iSquint comes along and converts it to Mpeg4. I simply drag and drop the file into my PowerPoint and voila, I've got dynamic video on my PowerPoint slides. Way to go! Now what's this crap I am hearing about iSquint out-of-business. Get up, brush yourself off, hire a business manager to take care of day-to-day and get back to your talent for programming. We need you out here!! (MacUpdate: Never asked me for my rating and no way to edit it. )
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| Apr 20 2009 |
SOULSLAVE you can download U tube videos directly to ipod format or others with firefox extensions. isquint is really for when you want to convert a really big file, like a movie.
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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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| Feb 10 2009 |
LUWEN I am sorry to read this news VisualHub, AudialHub, and iSquint have been discontinued. ... That means thereis no upgrade for iSquint any more.
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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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