For my previous post, the Box Office Trailers, I converted 10 Movie trailers for 4 different devices. While the video format for these devices is similar, I used a feature of DVD Catalyst 3 that can not be found in any other product on the market; Multi-Device.
Multi-Device enables you to queue up multiple devices (Multi-Device) [...]

For some reason today a lot of people are asking questions in regards of Digital Copies.
I have seen quite a few on forum websites, as well as received several by email today, so I figured I’d write up a small article in this regard.

CONVERSION SPEED
*Install the Boosterpack. The boosterpack installs an additional conversion engine, which is basically a newer version than the one DVD Catalyst has. It’s a free download, and will speed things up considerably, even with the same settings.
*Turn off the CPU indicators.  In Global Settings > Advanced, remove the checkmark for them, restart DVD Catalyst, [...]

A few days ago, I was asked to write up something about video quality and conversion speed. There are a lot of ideasfloating around the web on this topic, written by people who think they know a lot about video (including me).  In most of these write-ups, people just throw around a bunch of numbers, [...]

I received a question in regards of merging split avi files into a single video file so that it could be converted into a 1-file movie.

When DVD Catalyst reports that it has found 99 tracks on a DVD, this is due to a protection system on the DVD. ARCCOS, as it is nicely called, is a non-standard protection system mostly used by Sony for high-profile movies. The protection system generates a lot of “fake” tracks on the DVD, and adjusts [...]

DVD Catalyst 3 Updated to v3.83.1

Because new devices come out every day, as well as devices that exist under one name, and some cellphone company decides the name isnt cool enough so they rebrand it, it is impossible to list every single device on the planet in DVD Catalyst. While already DVD Catalyst has profiles for 100’s of different devices, [...]

Because DVD Catalyst uses the opensource mplayer/mencoder tools for it’s conversion engine it can read and create a huge number of video formats.

IMPORTANT: THE ZUNE 30 PROFILE IS NOT COMPATIBLE WITH THE BOOSTER PACK !
The Zune30 is quite picky in the format of video file that it accepts. Due to a bug in the conversion engine installed by the boosterpack, an incorrect video quality setting is reported to the Zune Software with created video files. The setting [...]