ENRICO MINGARDO  when moviegate will be snow leopard compatible?  
(Version 3.06)

CANDISE  I purchased MovieGate awhile ago, and have loved it - it is easy to use and works wonderfully. I just updated to an Intel Mac, and realized I lost my registration info. Does anyone know how I can find it again? Who do I contact?   
(Version 3.06)

CEH  I have been using MovieGate for 4 -- 5 weeks now, and I strongly recommend it. It is an excellent tool for authoring DVDs with menus -- it usually takes me 2 -- 3 minutes to select the video files, edit the menu and start it encoding. I run OS 10.5.6 on a quad-core system.

Typically, I want to encode and burn .avi source files. MovieGate runs a process for each video file, so that if I'm burning a DVD with 4 videos on it, MovieGate runs 4 processes, taking full advantage of the quad core processor. It is very fast and the quality is excellent. The developer is amazingly responsive, and if I have had any problem he usually comes back with a new beta within a few days.   
(Version 3.04)

XYPHER  Is there a download link for the Tiger version please?  
(Version 3.02)

MAILMAN42  MovieGate 2.67, MBP 10.5.5

Just recently, MG has quit creating the DMG files.

In the Preferences, as soon as I check mark the correct setting, it automatically un-checks itself.

I have plenty of hd space. Not sure what is happening.  
(Version 2.67)

LIJUNFAN  Is this still under development?

It doen't work anymore on my MacBook with OS 10.5.4. Quicktime 7.5.5.

Bugs here:

-Can't return to Main Menu from a Submenu. Preview Area gets clean instead.

-Can add new Videos but they don't appear in the Menu.

-Can't change size or prostion of any button, The Sliders do not react.

Unusable, what a pity! I really loved this App!!  
(Version 2.67)

CARMENCS  Chapters, Animated Buttons, Threaded Videos, Submenus.

All at a great price.

And it really works, unlike some other shareware I've tried.

Oh, great responsiveness from the developer too...  
(Version 2.65)

KLAUSKINSKI  I tried mp4, mpg, avi etc.pp. in MovieGate, but cannot access the 'Chapters' tab to edit markers. Clicking on the 'Chapters' is futile.   
(Version 2.65)

CHRISTOPHE DUCOMMUN  2.65 install has been temporarly removed !

Actually you can download 2.64 Install here :

http://homepage.hispeed.ch/MovieGate2/MovieGate264Install.zip

After you can update to 2.65 from MovieGate (use Check for Update).  
(Version 2.65)

69NUMBER69  Simple,easy to use and most important for me is the support for Greek subtitles!Very good work,thanks!  
(Version 2.62)

TUTA  One of my favorite apps. Clean and friendly interface. Now I can abandon my ambition to learn how to use DVD Studio. The only problem is that my copy doesn't seem to recognize .pulpMotion files. Please help.  
(Version 2.61)

FOX-HOUND ZERO  The only problem with this software at least for me is that i can add more than 1 movie!, and if it can accept more please tell me!!.

Thanks  
(Version 2.61)

CHRISTOPHE DUCOMMUN  Open the preferences of MovieGate and deactivate the MovieGate logo.  
(Version 2.57)

MAILMAN42  Wondered how to remove, from a registered version, the spinning "medallion", and if it was possible to get a song or music as background music?  
(Version 2.57)

AIKOUSHA  I had tried out a version of this, back in it's dark days... when it didn't really have english support and it had to download libs before it ran. At the time it had promise, but was severely lacking in comparison to other tools I already used. However...

Now, it manages to go through it's entire installation process, and setup at first launch... and then says it doesn't like my video card and Quartz Extreme.

Since my video card is completely compatible with all of Apple's video processes... Why, because I have the G4 AGP, which is fully compatible with Quartz Extreme.

So there is something flawed big-time in this version. In it's current form, it now just puts up the dialog box and then quits. Very useless and very annoying.  
(Version 2.53)

OLDCORPSE  I guess I'm not quite clear on what exactly this app is capable of, and I don't read French :)... though I'm working on the latter!

Perhaps there are others in this situation, so I'm hoping this will be of interest to a broader audience, which is why I'm asking here, rather than bugging the dev through email...

I'm on FCP 4.5 HD. I have a 135 minute long film encoded in MPEG-2 through Compressor, and the files are saved on an external FW HDD. I have an external FW DL DVD burner.

Would MovieGate let me burn a DVD using these files onto a DL disc? If yes, then it's a definite buy - I don't need the sophistication of DVDSP, and Toast 7 is too much $.  
(Version 2.51)

CHRISTOPHE DUCOMMUN  MovieGate 2.5 is available as a Beta Public version !

The manual will be delivered in English with the install pkg.

This version will be Shareware for 15 dollars.

You can send me your bug reports of the 2.50 Beta

Thanks

http://homepage.hispeed.ch/MovieGate2/MovieGateBetaPublic.zip

You need to install the 2.03 version before using 2.50 Beta !  
(Version 2.0.3)

ANONYMOUS  wow, slower than toast... :D

Use iDVD. And for the chapters, see here:

http://www.apple.com/quicktime/tutorials/chaptertracks.html  
(Version 1.18)

ANONYMOUS  I have three videos I would like to turn into a single DVD. MovieGate only allows chapters on the first file. How can I create chapters in the other two files?  
(Version 1.17)

ANONYMOUS  Great little app. I wish it had subtitle support and better chapter editing, but otherwise it works very well.  
(Version 1.17)

FARAUK MAL-EL  I don't know if it is because I run OSX on other language than US English, but loyal to its tradition, MovieGate's installer has once more messed up the .DS_store files of every directory it installes files to (namely one's Apps. and App. Support folders) as well as those of the directories 1 level below them.

This has been a constant, and a very disturbing one, as the only way of solving the mess is rearranging everything manually.

The only solution until this gets fixed is to use Pacifist to extract the files and put them oneslef where they belong.  
(Version 1.16)

I_FORGET  I had 7 mpeg-2 files I wanted to burn as a DVD, and was about to give up until I read about MovieGate. Downloaded and installed it, launched immediately and assigned it the task -- way too easy. Still trying to figure out why DVD player can't go to the various chapters in the disk image, but it plays fine as one whole movie.

It's still unburned, pending location of my blank DVD-R, but I've seen enough. This will do nicely. When I've burned three discs I'll know it's time to donate.

Dual 2.5/1.5GB/250GB HD/OS 10.3.8 took an hour and a half to encode it (4GB+) in the background, with Excel and Word running in the foreground, as well as an occasional email check, google search or screensaver intrusion.  
(Version 1.15)

AIKOUSHA  Absolutely useless if your work computer is not actively connected to the internet. I am connected at University, but not at home. This app quits if there is no connection.

Anybody know a way around this?  
(Version 1.14)

ANONYMOUS  very good at what it does

but the estimation of the size the dvd will be is very inaccurate and deceptive. i try to alter to bit rate to the highest possible and it still only encodes to between 2.7 and 3.3 Gb - it won't encode if the estimated size is above the size of a dvd.  
(Version 1.13)

ANONYMOUS  does a damn good job

you have to have about 18Gb free on your hard drive to fit the encoded files though. it encodes the files twice then makes an image, each file being like 4Gb including a wav audio file.

work fine though

the image is burnable with disk utility  
(Version 1.13)

ANONYMOUS  If you have a stack of video files you need to turn into a DVD without a lot of fuss, MovieGate is the app for you.

There are a few areas where MG falls down. First, it doesn't support importing vobsub subtitle files (or indeed, ANY subtitle files). Second, the preview window in the chaptering section is very imprecise. If there any place where milisecond control is vital, it's here. And third, you have to reset the quantiser and encoding bit rate for each video as you add them.

But what it does, it does exceedingly well. Feed it a stack of video files, set it, and walk away. Come back in...well, let's face it, unless you're driving a dual 2+ ghz PowerMac, it's gonna take several hours at a minimum. You'll have a disk image file ready and waiting for you to burn with Toast or Disk Utilities.

If the encoding settings were persistant, subtitle support were added and the chaptering preview had a more precise control, this would be a full five star app. As it is, I'll have to give it 4 1/4 stars. 8^)  
(Version 1.13)

PATRICK  Yes the manual is in french... but all the options are so simples! And one thing not mentioned is that a requantisation of your files can be done so that you can put all on a single 4.7GB DVD (like popcorn, fastDVDcopy etc...) And it's FREE!  
(Version 1.1.2)