Converting videos on a Mac can be difficult. Just ask two colleagues who struggled with Flip for Mac codecs and installs but could never get the videos to convert on their Macbooks. Then, I introduced them to Visual Hub and its inexpensive predecessor, iSquint.

Both programs immediately became critical apps I would use when converting video on the Mac. iSquint allows you to convert FLV videos from YouTube, Edublogs.tv, Teachertube.com and other popular sites to MP4. It is drop-dead simple to use, and I included it in my tutorials for podcasting. VisualHub, iSquint’s commercial version, enabled easy converting of video on a Mac. Forget struggling with codecs, Visual Hub set them up for you.

I still remember the time I walked into a meeting and was given a DVD to convert and put online. I had my Mac with me and I didn’t know about FormatFactory on Windows. What could I use? Visual Hub, of course.

The stories continue, a powerful product that could get the job done. Now, that’s over.

Instructions on how to backup your applications:

In order to preserve VisualHub (or AudialHub) if you need to switch computers, you need to back up two things:

1: The VisualHub (or AudialHub) app itself

2: The conversion engine

To back up the conversion engine, Copy the folder at: /Library/Application Support/Techspansion

…for good measure, you can also back up your Preferences file, containing your registration info in case you lose the original purchase e-mail. It’s at:

/Users/yourname/Library/Preferences/com.techspansion.visualhub.plist

…or for AudialHub:

/Users/yourname/Library/Preferences/com.techspansion.audialhub.plist

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