Nice app: rooVid
I enjoy taking little movies with my camera and like to share them via web / email. Unfortunately the camera takes these movies in a crappy AVI format with a size of about 18 MB per 30 sec movie. To help convert them to a much slimmer/nicer QuickTime movie format I’ve started to use a very handy application called rooVid.
The basic idea is that you create QuickTime profiles describing the codecs you want to use, drag the original media over the profiles and rooVid will create a new QuickTime movie form the source using the profile and store it in subfolder in ~/Movies/. For batches of movies that share the same codec needs this works great and is much faster that trying to do them individually via QuickTime Pro.
To be clear, rooVid is actually named “rooVid Lite” and is currently free. I believe the intention was to make a full version/commercial rooVid but development seems to have slowed. Despite that, this works great for me and well worth the download if you have similar needs.
Posted on: August 13, 2007 – 4:01 pm
2 Comments
Nice find Mike!
Now if only eyeTV would have this built in ;)
Hey Mike, thanks for the post. Development has indeed slowed.
At WWDC this year I came up with some big plans for a leopard only non-lite (heavy?) rooVid and was planning on starting on that in a month or two. The biggest feature was going to be organizing your videos and also some “rules” / “actions” so you could say “upload the resulting video to my website” and things like that. I don’t have it yet, but I’m guessing iMovie ‘08 will be a really good video organizer for a lot of folks. And with the upload to youtube I lose some interest there too.
I’m not giving up though :) I need to purchase and play with iMovie ‘08 and rethink some stuff.
Glad the lite version is still getting used though. Thanks again.
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