About Tools4Movies
Tools4Movies was founded in late 2003. While initially developed as a basic video conversion utility, in the middle of 2004, the first version of DVD Catalyst was released under the name of mMedia.
mMedia consisted of 2 separate applications called mDVD and mVideo. mVideo was the continuation of an in-home build video conversion utility, and mDVD was essentially a modified version to enable DVD support.
After a few months of continuous development, mMedia was replaced with PocketDVD 1.0, which initially hold onto the 2 separate applications, but with later versions, both were merged into a single application to make better use of the powerful batching capabilities that the applications offered. The first name change, from mMedia to PocketDVD was decided on due for marketing reasons.
After a few successful version-upgrades, and PocketDVD 2.0 winning the Smartphone and Pocket PC Magazine Best Software Awards, a new name change was needed because we were receiving too many support requests for applications with a similar name. While initially beneficial (we do answer all emails within a very reasonable response time, even if it was not for our own application) we found it better to have a more distinctive look and name to avoid confusion. As we at DVD Catalyst are cat-persons (well, 1 cat and 2 yorkies at the moment), we decided to use distinctive cat-eyes in the graphical design, and of course DVD CATalyst as a name.
DVD Catalyst was born out of our own personal needs. After looking around the web for an application to assist us with putting movies on our portable devices, we found that there was nothing on the market that would easily enable us to start a conversion with more than just one DVD track or video file. On top of that, all available software treated DVDs and video files as being different, basically forcing you to purchase 2 products for essentially doing the same thing.
So rather than settling for a multi-app solution, we started development on something that would do what we want; Rip multiple DVDs, convert numerous video files, and provide us with all the control over the conversion we could ever need.
Unlike most video-conversion-app developers out there, we actually use our own software on a daily basis. Whenever we run into something we would like it to do, we build it into our software.
Coming from a history of support-jobs, we actually listen to our customers. Besides providing the best possible support, we are also always open for suggestions. We do come up with ideas and new features ourselves, but customer suggestions and feature requests has made DVD Catalyst what it is today.
