Visualhub Reborn as an Opensource Project ‘FilmRedux’
We all remember that sad day when Techspansion shut down, taking along with it the stunning video encoder Visualhub, the audio counterpart AudialHub, and the iPod video converter, iSquint. There was no word on the future of either of these apps and most of us had made our peace with it (while holding close our existing copies).
Lost amidst all of the noise created by Apple’s announcements, Techspansion’s Tyler Loch has announced that all of his projects are going opensource, including one that no one even knows about. For now VisualHub and the secret project have been send into the OSS stables at SourceForge.net. The other two will follow suit soon.
The source code for two of the projects (one you haven’t seen yet, and will hopefully really like) are now online. I’ll get the other two online a little later.
These are new projects, with new names, ready for a new life with smarter people. All of their development and discussion should happen on the SourceForge project page. - Loch
VisualHub has been renamed to FilmRedux. The project in it’s current state has very little documentation and the application not executable by any average joe (that includes you). The guys at APCmag have found a screenshot inside the project files. It appears that the interface is moving towards the look and feel of AudialHub. It also sports a free floating inspector now, instead of the preference panes.
For now, all we know is that there is hope and confidence, that our favourite video converter, in the hands of competent people, will continue to improve and evolve with the future technology.
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That is a great great news.
Azeem October 15th, 2008 at 11:08 am
this is great news. I come across people with a need to convert their video into various formats and have had to point them to Quicktime Pro instead of VisialHub. Let’s hope this gets off the ground soon!
john October 15th, 2008 at 11:53 am
Heyy the Techspasion guys have put up instructions to back up VisualHub and AudialHub in case we need a fresh install of Mac. Even if it weren’t open we could still use it for ages and ofcourse QTP will compliment it pretty well
Azeem October 15th, 2008 at 2:20 pm
VisualHub as it now stands is a perfectly functioning application. However, as the future presents itself, we will slowly find that the current app cannot cope up. That’s why yippee hurray to the Tenspansion guys for making this open source. I hope the OSS guys can handle it though.
Milind Alvares October 15th, 2008 at 4:29 pm
I do miss Visualhub, I paid for the APP. I liked it alot. Which one of the two is easier to use?
Please respond.
Roy Martin November 28th, 2008 at 2:58 am
VisualHub is currently still working. So if you have your license and software backed up, you can continue to use it for some time to come. Filmredux on the other hand is still not a final product. You need to manually compile it using Xcode and the outcome is far from perfect.
You could check out our posts on iFlicks and Handbrake (use the site search) for alternatives to VS.
Milind Alvares November 28th, 2008 at 3:00 am