While there are many conversion utilities that support multiple devices, DVD Catalyst 3 is the only application that enables you to create a “multi-device queue”.
You can easily create a list of devices in DVD Catalyst (and save as a profile as well), each with their own settings, and everything you run through DVD Catalyst, DVD’s, video files etc, will be converted for each device.
The original design idea behind this particular feature was based on the fact that as the developer of DVD Catalyst, we continue to expand the devices we own. Starting with an old iPaq, then a PSP, an iPod Video 5G, a HP Jornada 720, an iPod Touch etc etc, we figured that while we could create files for each individual device, wouldn’t it be cool to make it so that we can create files for all of them with a single click.
So we did.
Select a device from the dropdown boxes, click on “Modify” and at the bottom right click on “Add device”. This will create a copy of the selected settings, which you can modify to your hearts extend. Select a different device, maybe a PSP or a Zune for one of the kids, a Blackberry for yourself, anything will work. Just add as many devices as you need.
With multiple devices, DVD Catalyst will convert everything to each individual device, in seperate folders. So if you have 3 different devices, each movie/file will be converted 3 times, one for each device.
Besides the design idea explained above, it can be used for other purposes as well.
You can use it to try different settings for the same device. If you are trying different formats or video quality settings, just add the same device, and change the settings. In Global Settings (conversion tab) you can even enable a length-limiter to just convert a small portion, which makes it easier and faster to do a quality comparison (dont forget to disable the limiter when done though)
With the newly added option in 3.81 that displays the average conversion time for each item when the conversion is complete, it can even be used as a benchmarking method, giving you an indication on what the impact is of different settings or formats in relation to speed.
