Allan Tepper, ProVideo Coalition.com, just posted a great article explaining why DV Kitchen is still a necessary tool for the mac video converter even with the latest new features of Final Cut Pro 7.
Here’s an excerpt:
“FCP7 brings many welcome exporting/sharing features, but we still need DV Kitchen for the following reasons:
Final Cut Pro 7 fortunately now offers many inboard sharing features which were very weak or non-existent before. Now FCP7 allows us to export to multiple formats and destinations in a single job (called “Back-End Batch Capability” in my DV Kitchen review of March 2009). FCP7 even allows us to export “in the background”, so we can keep on editing if we’d like. Thanks to FCP7’s improved integration with Apple’s Compressor, some of the encoded formats can be published directly to web destinations, whether they be MobileMe, YouTube, or even your own FTP server (after you’ve previously made a preset destination for it in Compressor). These are all welcome improvements, which are directly accessible from FCP7. However, DV Kitchen is still a vital tool (especially if you’re encoding for MobileMe, your own web server . . . or your client’s web server), because it includes the following unique and must-have features not included in FCP7/FCS3 . . .”
There you have it. DV Kitchen . . . still the best video converter for mac on the planet.
You can download a fully functional 20 day trial version of DV Kitchen at www.dv-kitchen.com. Note that a special offer is also currently available.