Filed under: Multimedia, Software, Beta Beat
Evom beta takes up iSquint's mantle, effortlessly converts video formats
While still in beta, Evom (from The Little App Factory, makers of iPodRip) looks ready to pick up where iSquint left off. It easily and quickly converts videos to formats compatible with iTunes, YouTube, your iPod, and Apple TV.
It couldn't be a simpler drag-and-drop operation: drop the video on the Evom window, and select a destination. After that, Evom does the heavy lifting and (optionally) adds the finished video to iTunes. The output quality is good -- it uses the same technical foundation as ffmpegX. You get the same high quality without all the fiddly controls of ffmpegX.
Evom also includes a bookmarklet that lets you save off YouTube videos to your computer with a single click. The quality of the output there mostly depends on how good the source video is, but it couldn't be easier.
iSquint, my favorite "as if by magic" video conversion tool, was discontinued after Techspansion (also the makers of iSquint's bigger brother VisualHub) shut their doors last October. The VisualHub codebase is still being developed, however, in a new project called Video Monkey that Aron covered in March, which is also well worth a look.
Evom is in beta, but unlike iSquint, it appears like it may cost something when the final version is released. It also appears limited to converting 60 items until it's registered, and trying to register the app leads to a non-existent shopping cart area. Even so, the simple interface and easy installation will be worth a few bucks to me.
[Via Daring Fireball.]
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Daniel Brusilovsky said 12:13PM on 6-01-2009
I've been using Evom for a few days, and used it during the alpha testing process, and it's been amazing. The integration it has with downloading YouTube videos is flawless. Great job, Little App Factory!
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John B. said 12:20PM on 6-01-2009
Can't you just build the open sourced version of iSquint (aka PunyVid) from http://transcoderredux.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/transcoderredux/? If you Google PunyVid, I think you can find copies of it compiled already. Free software FTW!
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Steve Tsuida said 12:28PM on 6-01-2009
I'm going to guess we're about 45 seconds away form Apple telling them to take the iPod out of the icon/logo/thing.
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Cameron Williams said 12:33PM on 6-01-2009
Another free option would be to use Handbrake, which has handled all video types since the last version.
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3rdpig said 1:01PM on 6-01-2009
I've used Cucusoft and DVDvideosoft for years but I'll check this out. Drag ' nDrop sounds too easy to pass up although ctrl-v ctrl-c isn't too hard ;)
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jogga said 9:31AM on 6-02-2009
Try RoadMovie if you want something as simple as Evom but with more useful features, such as support for metadata, subtitles, chapters and network upload via WebDAV or FTP. http://www.bitfield.se/roadmovie.
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