Comments on: Road Movie – Visualhub Alternative ? http://www.digmo.co.uk/technology/road-movie-visualhub-alternative/ Educational Technology News and Reviews Sun, 28 Feb 2010 12:38:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Aaron Abernethy http://www.digmo.co.uk/technology/road-movie-visualhub-alternative/comment-page-1/#comment-5366 Aaron Abernethy Tue, 24 Mar 2009 21:39:16 +0000 http://www.digmo.co.uk/?p=3375#comment-5366 I'm still trying to figure out if I've wasted my money on RoadMovie. Sadly, it doesn't measure up to VisualHub in a number of areas. Cross-format conversion is one, but the biggest drawback is speed. This thing is deathly slow compared to V-Hub. I dropped a queue of 30 video files this morning into it, and when I got home it had only finished 6 of them in nearly 10 hours. In the same time V-Hub would have got through probably 15-20 of them. They need to take it apart and implement the conversion scripting that the Visualhub developer released. This app just seems to use the conversion processes built into Quicktime. However, the Smart Meta-data is a godsend, and can save loads of time at the other end. I don't have a Turbo.264, so maybe that would make a difference. That being said, I don't feel like spending more money to find out. Anyone else had any experience of RoadMovie? I’m still trying to figure out if I’ve wasted my money on RoadMovie.

Sadly, it doesn’t measure up to VisualHub in a number of areas. Cross-format conversion is one, but the biggest drawback is speed.

This thing is deathly slow compared to V-Hub. I dropped a queue of 30 video files this morning into it, and when I got home it had only finished 6 of them in nearly 10 hours. In the same time V-Hub would have got through probably 15-20 of them.

They need to take it apart and implement the conversion scripting that the Visualhub developer released. This app just seems to use the conversion processes built into Quicktime.

However, the Smart Meta-data is a godsend, and can save loads of time at the other end.

I don’t have a Turbo.264, so maybe that would make a difference. That being said, I don’t feel like spending more money to find out.

Anyone else had any experience of RoadMovie?

]]> By: Naseer http://www.digmo.co.uk/technology/road-movie-visualhub-alternative/comment-page-1/#comment-4920 Naseer Wed, 04 Feb 2009 19:23:03 +0000 http://www.digmo.co.uk/?p=3375#comment-4920 I'll have to check out Road Movie and see what it can do. I already have Handbrake, MPEG Streamclip, etc. I just used VisualHub to make a DVD from an avi file that was said to be too big by iDVD. Somehow, VH was able to make it fit. How is it that the good ones go first...!!! I’ll have to check out Road Movie and see what it can do. I already have Handbrake, MPEG Streamclip, etc. I just used VisualHub to make a DVD from an avi file that was said to be too big by iDVD. Somehow, VH was able to make it fit. How is it that the good ones go first…!!!

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