JOGGA  If you want hundreds of knobs to turn and support for every imaginable format I guess you're right. But RoadMovie is all about getting things done in a easy, stylish and painless way. The average user has probably never heard of the formats you mention above. People just want the job done and that is what my application does, and it does it well.

You also say that the files converted for iPod Video doesn't play because it "needs a moov header and this is not supported by RoadMovie". Every QuickTime movie has a moov atom and it's obviously supported. What you are saying is just plain wrong!

I have a PSP myself (the slim & lite 3004). The converted files works just fine. Make sure your memory stick is formatted in the PSP and put the converted videos in the VIDEO folder.

Regarding speed I can say that in RoadMovie (at least under 10.6 Snow Leopard) is well up there with those FFMPEG based encoders. Since QuickTime is component based you can download and use several encoders based on the FFMPEG or x264 projects, if speed is an issue for you. Download the x264Encoder from http://korta.nu/5cc6 and make a custom preset. Voila, you have all those knobs to turn in RoadMovie as well ;-)

25 bucks is in my oppinion very reasonable. You get a lot more automation than in those apps you mention above and you also get unique features like automatic upload and subtitle support.  
(Version 1.9)

JOGGA  As I said, the source using gpl'ed code is available for download from the page specified above. All according to the license. There is no intention whatsoever to violate that. If you want to discuss this further you can contact me by mail via jogga at bitfield dot se.  
(Version 1.5)

JOGGA  You can download the source for the iSubtitleHelperApp (that's where the MP4v2 wrapper is used) from this page. http://www.bitfield.se/freestuff/index.html.  
(Version 1.5)

JOGGA  Sorry to hear that you can't get the PSP encoding to work. I don't really know why, but if you send me a mail we can try to find a solution. Please mail to jogga at bitfield dot se and we will sort this out. Thx!  
(Version 1.9)

JOGGA  Hi MISHA and ZX.

This is what I have found out. It seems like there is a performance problem with the Turbo.264, HD resolution movies and subtitle tracks! In my tests there is a huge difference. Exporting a 720p mkv without subtitles run a approximately 20 fps, which is pretty darn good. Exporting the exact same 720p mkv with subtitles run at 1 fps??? For some reason the Turbo framework has a hard time encoding the subtitle track with the video track. I will try to figure out why. Please email me if you want to help me test this further...

For all you other RoadMovie users out there I'm glad to annonce that the QuickTime exporters in software (iPhone, iPod and Apple TV) is at least twice as fast in 10.6 Snow Leopard as they where before in 10.5 Leopard!!!  
(Version 1.9)

JOGGA  Yes, unfortunately iSubtitle can crash when adding more than a couple of subtitle languages at the same time. The bug is actually in QuickTime (surprise) and it has been reported to Apple engineers. Hopefully they will fix it ASAP.

Look out for version 1.5 of iSubtitle. It will have a unique online subtitle finder. Stay tuned!  
(Version 1.4)

JOGGA  Make sure you have the latest PSP firmware. Mount your PSP memory stick using USB or a memory stick reader. Make sure you have a folder named VIDEO at the root level of the memory stick. If not, you need to format your memory stick. Export your movie using the PSP preset and save it to the VIDEO folder on the memory stick. Done! You can also create a Destination that points directly to the VIDEO folder on the PSP so you don't even have to move them in there manually ;-)  
(Version 1.8.2)

JOGGA  Presets for Wii and PSP works just fine. Follow the instructions on http://www.bitfield.se/support. QuickTime is also going to have a major update in 10.6 Snow Leopard. Hopefully we will see some major speed improvements and better handling of multi-core processors. All applications based on QuickTime will benefit from this, including RoadMovie ;-) And if you think the speed is too slow, get an Elgato Turbo.264 HD. Use the Turbo with RoadMovie and leave everything else behind in the dust. It's way, way faster than anything else, including all FFMPEG-based applications.  
(Version 1.8.2)

JOGGA  That is just not correct! I don't understand where you get that from? You can of course just save the movie if it's already in the desired format. There's no need to re-encode/export if you just want to watch a subtitled movie in iTunes or in any other QuickTime capable player.  
(Version 1.7.1)

JOGGA  Yes, I am the developer. I don't know why my screen name isn't used when posting?  
(Version 1.2)

JOGGA  Yes, it's a known Front Row bug. Reported to Apple several times without being fixed :-(   
(Version 1.0.1)

JOGGA  It outputs standard .m4v files  
(Version 1.0)

JöRGEN ISAKSSON  Hi Hoby!

Well don't agree that there's a cripple fight between MovieGallery and other video gallery software. MovieGallery has some distinct features/differences that make it unique. We have always had the web-publishing part in mind when developing the app and we needed re-compression and stability. That's why we choose to build it around QuickTime. This is my opinion on your ideas:

Video Formats

QuickTime is fully extensible by adding components. Today we can play a wide selection of video formats and more is coming. When Tiger arrives we will also have support for H264 which is one of the best video formats seen to date. We could have implemented ffmpeg support but we needed the export functions of QuickTime in order to make this app happen. There's also some legal problems around ffmpeg that seems bad at the moment. Read more at http://ffmpeg.sourceforge.net/

Thumbnails

You say that previews only are made during import which is actually wrong. You can easily ctrl-click on any frame in the movie and build a new thumbnail. You can also choose an picture as a thumbnail.

Interface Controls

We have always tried to follow the human interface guidelines from Apple (even though Apple don't do it themselves). You say that MG is less space efficient than the competition. Do you know that you can hide the toolbar by clicking at the icon in the window's upper right corner? Do you know that you can hide the left pane by dragging the divider all the way to the left? You will only have the movie left on screen which seems pretty space efficient to me.

Libraries

Yes, MG has a totally different approach to libraries that the competition. We work document-based and it will soon show that this makes a great difference ;-)

List View

You want more fields? Which?

best regards / Jörgen  
(Version 1.2)

JOGGA  MovieGallery is a document-based application. You can have as many galleries as you like. Just select New from the File menu.  
(Version 1.0.3)

JöRGEN ISAKSSON  On the surface MovieGallery might look like iVideo, but under the hood they're totally different. MovieGallery is written in Cocoa and it's designed as a document-based application. You can work with multiple galleries at the same time! You can share your work on the internet using beautiful web templates. And much, much more. So, again, they might look like each other but they are in fact very different.  
(Version 1.0.1)