Filmage Converter
Convert any video or audio format £9.99 FROM Filmage, filmagepro.com NEEDS Mac OS X 10.11 or later
Playing movies in anything other than Apple’s preferred MP4 and MOV formats on a Mac, is tricky. You need a third-party app to change legacy or unusual formats such as WMV, AVI into Mac-friendly movies.
Filmage Converter puts a simple interface on to video codecs and libraries. Drag any movie for conversion on to the app and choose an output format or device type. Pretty much everything is available from iPad or Apple TV formats through Apple ProRes, WMV, and more, all with frame size, rate, and quality presets. You can click to edit any preset and reveal options on the level of quality – as well as codec, frame, and bit rate settings and audio bit and sample rates. Presets can be saved once edited, and presets to save audio files separately from video are really useful.
You can merge videos, but it’s not a linear editor. That said, clicking the Edit button for a video reveals tools to trim start and end points, crop frames, add subtitles, effects, and watermarks. These are super easy to use.
There’s also an internet downloader where you paste a video’s URL to make a local copy, but this is a little hit and miss. There’s batch processing – performance varies depending on how much you’re crunching a video file and while not fast, is decent. Hollin Jones