Clipstart - Riverfold Software

Think of Clipstart as 'iTunes for video clips' and you're halfway there. It makes video clips fun again, putting them in easy reach and letting you upload them to the Internet in an instant... read more at MacUserUK

DivX Pro 7 - DivX

DivX Pro 7 contains a collection of tools for encoding video and playing it back on your Mac and compatible devices. The latest version supports an expanded range of codecs including H.264... read more at MacUserUK

RoadMovie - Bitfield

RoadMovie is a neat little piece of software. It allows you to process movie files, add chapters, subtitles and metadata, access the tracks and finally output the movie... read more at MacUserUK

iSubtitle - Bitfield

iSubtitle is a companion product to Bitfield's excellent Submerge application. The main difference is that Submerge is a 'hard' subtitler - the text is burned directly into the movie file itself... read more at MacUserUK

FlamingoHD - ShedWorx

One of Quick Look's partner utilities is an application called FlamingoHD. It's designed to provide super-fast previewing of AVCHD video clips without first having to import the compressed clips into iMovie or Final Cut... read more at MacUserUK

Submerge - Bitfield

It's a rare thing when you find a piece of software that does exactly what you want it to do. Even rarer when it does it with speed, style and simplicity... read more at MacUserUK

iLife 09 - Apple

The latest version of iLife 09 doesn't have any new applications, and two of its existing components, iDVD and iWeb have been virtually untouched. But the improvements to iPhoto, iMovie, and GarageBand mean that there's plenty to get excited about... read more at MacUserUK

iMovie ’09 - Apple

Let’s get this out of the way up front: iMovie ’09 is the version Apple should have shipped when it decided a year and a half ago to start from scratch and build a new video editor for iLife. Instead, the company released iMovie ’08, a rough draft of what Apple believed a consumer video editor should be. It offered several welcome feature improvements... read more at Macworld

Capture One Pro - Capture One Pro

Phase One is probably better known as a maker of high-end digital camera backs for medium-format cameras, but it has an equally good reputation for its Capture One Raw conversion software... read more at MacUserUK

Keynote '09 - Apple

After six years and thousands of slides, I can’t imagine getting along without Keynote. Its rival, Microsoft PowerPoint has made progress on many fronts, but still doesn’t equal Keynote’s. elegance or ease of use. Despite some disappointing oversights, Keynote ’09 is an evolutionary upgrade... read more at Macworld

DV Kitchen - DVcreators.net

DV Kitchen, from DV Creators, costs little more than a budget video encoder, yet offers a host of professional features. These include FTP uploading, bitrate calculation, watermarking and still-image exporting... read more at MacUserUK

Flash CS4 Professional - Adobe

Adobe Flash CS4 has been radically redesigned and restructured. With CS4, Flash has finally turned the corner from a code-based authoring tool with an interactive animation element, to a designer-friendly space for illustrators to intuitively draw animation... read more at Macworld

After Effects CS4 - Adobe

When you consider all the new features and enhancements Adobe piled into the CS4 release of After Effects, its flagship visual effects and motion graphics software, it’s apparent that the company was very concerned about this sector of the market... read more at Macworld

After Effects CS4 - Adobe

When you consider all the new features and enhancements Adobe piled into the CS4 release of After Effects, its flagship visual effects and motion graphics software, it’s apparent that the company was very concerned about this sector of the market... read more at Macworld

Netflix "Watch Instantly" - Netflix

Netflix has finally made their “Watch Instantly” streaming service available for the Mac platform. If you own an Intel-based Mac, you no longer have to stalk your mailbox waiting for those little red envelopes to show up in order to get your video fix -- you can stream them from Netflix... read more at MacLife

Premiere Pro CS4 - Adobe

Premiere Pro CS4 rectifies the previous version’s most conspicuous flaws, and introduces some useful new features. In contrast to the previous version, Premiere Pro CS4 includes the same software bundle as the Windows package and can accept a wider range of tapeless formats... read more at Macworld

Magic Bullet Steady - Red Giant Software

Magic Bullet Steady is a set of plug-ins for Final Cut Pro and Adobe After Effects, which address two banes of a filmmaker’s existence: shaky footage from handheld camera shots and footage plagued with visual noise that’s typical when shooting in low-light... read more at MacLife

MediaImpression 1.2 - ArcSoft

ArcSoft MediaImpression 1.2 aims high. It wants to be your one-stop shop for managing all of your digital media—photos, videos, even music—within a single interface. You can import, browse, search, and organize your media files, as you’d expect. But MediaImpression goes further, providing features for editing photos and creating and sharing slideshows and movies... read more at Macworld

Norrkross Movie 1.2 - Norrkross Software

There was some general dissatisfaction when iMovie 08 was released, with complaints that it had removed a lot of control from the user and become iPhone for video. If you're of the same opinion, then you should check out Norrkross Movie 1.2... read more at MacUserUK

FXhome VideoWrap - FXhome

VideoWrap is a simple and inexpensive compression tool that converts standard video footage for a number of destinations, including iPod, Apple TV, Sony PSP and PlayStation 3, Microsoft Xbox 360 and the Nintendo Wii. The program is quick and easy to install, although users that have previously tried the demo version will need to uninstall it prior to installing the full product... read more at MacUserUK

Microsoft PowerPoint 2008 - Microsoft

Many changes to PowerPoint’s user interface are recognizable instantly. The standard toolbar is now built in, and you can opt to display all the toolbars docked or undocked— except the Drawing toolbar, which cannot be docked... read more at Macworld

Final Cut Express 4 - Apple

The release of Final Cut Express 4 redefines that tiered structure. The line between iMovie—in this case, the completely revamped iMovie ’08 ()—and Final Cut Express is now a little blurry, making the latter not just a replacement step-up, but an accessory that can make up for iMovie ‘08’s shortcomings... read more at Macworld

iStopMotion 2 - Boinx

The Mac-only iStopMotion has been known for years as the best stop-motion animation tool this side of Hollywood, and users of all levels have had lots of fun with it. After a very long time in development, iStopMotion 2 has finally been released. The list of changes make it look like a very good deal, both for new users and current users of iStopMotion 1.0... read more at MacUserUK

Toon Boom Studio 4 - Toon Boom Animation

Toon Boom Studio is a specialist animation application that's been around for a number of years. Version 4, just launched for Windows and Mac, extends its abilities in a number of ways, from improvements to the working methods to more output options... read more at MacUserUK

Roxio Crunch - Roxio

Roxio’s Crunch is another application designed to fill a need of Apple TV, iPhone, and video iPod users - the need to properly encode video files for those devices. However, at a cost of nearly $40, Crunch will have a hard time prying users away from cheaper alternatives, especially free ones... read more at MacLife

Pixelmator - Pixelmator

With both the high- and low-end of image processing covered by Photoshop and Photoshop Elements respectively, it takes a lot of nerve to offer a viable alternative. But Pixelmator, with its fresh, modern interface and innovative filter set, does just that... read more at MacUserUK

Acorn - Flying Meat Products

Acorn, from Flying Meat Products, is an image editor that keeps things simple while sticking with Photoshop's working practices... read more at MacUserUK

FotoMagico 2.1 - Boinx

FotoMagico is a powerful, intuitive slideshow application that features integration with the latest version of iLife. Compared to the last release of FotoMagico (Reviews, 27 October 2006, p46), this latest version sports several enhancements and is now available in two flavoursc... read more at MacUserUK

iDive 1.8 - Aquafadas

iDive is a cleanly designed asset manager for video data, allowing you to catalogue old video tapes, movie files and iMovie projects. Tags and other metadata can be applied to all clips, and you have control over where your libraries are saved, allowing them to reside on an external hard disk or wherever you choose... read more at MacUserUK

Handbrake 0.9.0 - HandBrake

HandBrake converts non-copy-protected DVDs for playback on various devices including iPods. The program's window is organised into three sections: source and output, the toolbar - where you manage the queue - and encoder settings... read more at MacUserUK

Magic Bullet Colorista 1.0 - Red Giant Software

Colorista brings powerful yet streamlined color-correction capabilities to your favorite video editor or motion graphics program... read more at MacLife

iDVD '08 - Apple

Whether you buy into that thinking, Apple has not yet abandoned iDVD—this new version gains a few welcome features, some interface enhancements, and performance boosts that make it easier to use than earlier versions... read more at Macworld

Keynote '08 - Apple

In the four-and-a-half years since its launch, Keynote has matured from a promising but flawed program into a strong performer that outshines Microsoft PowerPoint 2004 (4 mice) in most areas. Even so, Keynote 3 (4 mice) suffered from a few surprising omissions, such as tiny thumbnails in the Light Table and lack of support for QuickTime VR... read more at Macworld

iMovie '08 - Apple

With the release of iMovie ’08, Apple has redefined its consumer video program’s mission and methodology. With the popularity of broadband Internet access, and particularly the YouTube video sharing Web site, iMovie is now focused on helping people quickly and easily capture, view, organize, and edit movies all in one place, and then readily share them online in a variety of formats... read more at Macworld