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Top 10 Best Mac Video Encoding Apps
With the different audio and video formats available, there is often the need for Mac users to convert video between various formats. To have your favorite clips how you want them—whether that's on your iPad, iPhone, iPod or desktop—you need the right utility to convert them into the format that works for you. Here are 10 of best Mac video encoding apps that you can use to achieve the inter conversions on your Mac.
HandBrake
Price: Free
Requires: Intel CPU; Mac OS X 10.5 or above
Developer: HandBrake
Originally only a DVD ripping tool, Handbrake evolved into more of a universal video converter with its most recent release. Now it can handle pretty much anything you throw at it and then spit it back out in a new format. It's well-polished, solid, reliable, and just an overall pleasure to use.
EasyWMV
Price: $19.99 (demo available)
Requires: Intel CPU; Mac OS X 10.5 or above
Developer: Patrice Bensoussan
EasyWMV is not, as the name suggests, just for handling WMV files. In fact, it's a multi-format video converter allowing you to convert to a range of codecs. It accepts a variety of formats, and even provides options for resizing video in app. This Mac video encoder can also converting more than one file at a time.
iFunia Video Converter Pro
Price: $35
Requires: Mac OS X 10.6.6 or later
Developer: iFunia
All-in-one Mac video converter is here! iFunia Video Converter for Mac is a groundbreaking Mac video format converter you can use to convert video(including HD) into numerous video/audio formats for use on personal computers or popular portable players such as iPad, iPhone, iPod, Apple TV, PSP, BlackBerry, PS3,etc.
RipIt
Price: $24.95
Developer: The Little App Factory
RipIt is a DVD ripper for your Mac. RipIt takes your DVD and rips or compresses it and allows you to watch them from anywhere. The idea is to avoid your disks getting scratched or lost by making them readily available on your Mac in a native formats.
QuickTime X
Price: Free
Requires: QuickTime 7; Mac OS X 10.4.10 or above
Developer: Apple
QuickTime X is Apple's latest video-playing incarnation, released as part of Snow Leopard. If you're looking for an app you know is stable and will work with your configuration, this might be your best bet. QuickTime X is completely free. It converts into Apple's preferential formats for various portable devices.
Permute
Price: $14.99
Requires: Intel CPU; Mac OS X 10.6 or above
Developer: Fuel Collective
Permute is "the perfect A/V conversion tool for those of us that are not A/V experts". It too has a simple, drag-and-drop interface with presets for your iPod, Apple TV and even your Xbox! It's fast and functional design matches a great user interface for an enjoyable media conversion experience.
ffmpegX
Price: Free
Developer: ffmpegX
Requires: Mac OS 10.2 or later
ffmpegX has a huge range of advanced features packed inside its single interface window, however this app would definitely not be the most intuitive to use. With over 30 different target formats, ffmpegX looks like an excellent option for those looking for a wide range of export options.
Miro
Price: Free
Requires: Intel CPU; Mac OS X 10.5
Developer: Miro
Miro is one of the newer apps to make this list. It's a video player at heart, but also offers some transcoding features underneath with its free video converter app. It supports video output to a plethora of devices, from a range of Android phones to your iPod and your PSP too.
RoadMovie
Price: $29
Requires: Intel CPU; Mac OS X 10.5
Developer: Bitfield
Like with HandBrake, RoadMovie maintains subtitles and chapters and metadata for iTunes.
The feature set for RoadMovie is lengthy and includes a range of export options and also upload options to services like MobileMe and YouTube. You can also customize and automate RoadMovie via AppleScript.
iMovie
Price: $14.99 (on Mac App Store; bundled in iLife which is probably already installed on your Mac)
Developer: Apple
iMovie isn't really a fully fledged encoder, but it does provide a range of input and export formats. By importing, and then immediately exporting back out from iMovie, you can change a video's encoding to Apple's preferred formats to gain compatibility for your devices.
