Stomp 1.4 bumps up speed, includes support for Elgato Turbo 264

Stomp, billed as the ultimate video recompressor for the Mac, has just been upgraded to version 1.4.

Stomp is a wonderful piece of software for performing quick and painless video compression. There are a number of presets, such as iPhone, Apple TV, and YouTube, or Web for easy email-able videos (because we're all tired of receiving one gigabyte DV files of your baby's first steps). Stomp also includes video effects, cropping, and a set-and-forget batch processing mode.

Stomp 1.4 has a few choice new features:

• New support for any QuickTime movie exporter, which means you can export your file as an MPEG-4, AVI, or WMV (if you have Flip4Mac installed).
• Added support for the Elgato Turbo 264 device (the USB dongle).
• Speed improvements to the encoding process.

The new version is a test release so the old cartographer's adage applies: here there be dragons. The demo will leave a nice, shiny watermark on any video you compress. Removing said watermark will cost you $29.95.

Requires Mac OS X 10.4 or 10.5.

Tags: compression, mac, shareware, stomp, video