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What are the best media converters for Mac?
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HandBrake
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Video Converter Ultimate
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HandBrake
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Advanced features
Although HandBrake is pretty straightforward to use, you can adjust pretty much any aspect of your conversion if necessary. For example, when transcoding video you have the option of adjusting between constant and variable framerate, adjusting average bitrate and constant quality, having 2-pass encoding or not, as well as tinkering with encoder specific options, and many, many, many more options.
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Supports only two containers
You can output only .mp4 and .mkv.
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Fast
Since version 0.9.9. HandBrake has been very fast.
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Wide range of formats and multiple media types supported
HandBrake can handle DVDs, Blu-Rays, .mp4, .mkv, H.264(x264), MPEG-4, MPEG-2, AAC, MP3, FLAC, AC3, Vorbis, AC-3, DTS and DTS-HD among others.
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Lightweight
It is designed to convert, no added bloat.
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Great, easy to use presets
There are presets for everything, so you don't have to delve deep in to advanced features if you don't want or need to. And in most cases you won't have to because the presets are great.
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Good metadata support
HandBrake can pull, use and edit metadata.
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Command Line Interface option
There's HandBrakeCLI if you wish to use HandBrake frome a terminal.
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Free and open source
HandBrake is licensed under GPL.
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Avidemux
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Can convert audio tracks without re-encoding the video track
This saves a significant amount of time that would otherwise be wasted on pointlessly re-encoding a perfectly fine video track for cases where you only need to convert the audio tracks.
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Not a good tool for more complicated editing work
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Hardware accelerated (partial)
Hardware acceleration is limited to H.264 decoding (via VideoToolbox) on OSX as of v2.7.1
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Fast, light, best option if you only need some light editing like cutting the video
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Video Converter Ultimate
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Smart Converter Pro
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Smart Converter Pro
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Smart Converter Pro
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Simple UI
Drag and drop, multi-file processing, easy output selection by target device.
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Expensive
It's not free, but there is a free, ad-supported version available to try the basic functionality.
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$14.99
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Kigo Video Converter free for Mac
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AppleMacSoft DRM Video Converter
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AppleMacSoft DRM Video Converter
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AppleMacSoft DRM Video Converter
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UkeySoft Video Converter for Mac
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39.95
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