What is Media Cleaner Pro 3?

Media creation is indisputably one area where the Mac remains strong, and the release of Terran Interactive’s Media Cleaner Pro 3 makes that position even stronger. This batch processor for audio, still, and video media provides optimum compres- sion for a variety of delivery mediums and formats, including CD-ROM, Web, QuickTime, RealMedia, JPEG, and WAV.

Although Media Cleaner Pro 3 can do many things very well, its greatest strength is QuickTime compression for Web or CD-ROM delivery. You have complete control over every facet of the compression process either through a Wizard interface or by directly changing the parameters in an Advanced Settings window. Advanced Settings provides access to all the usual compression settings — such as color depth, compression codec, frame rate, keyframes, and audio compression — that you would find in any QuickTime-compatible program. It’s the other settings, many of which rely on QuickTime Pro 3, that really make this application shine. You can also determine contrast, brightness, image color, cropping and scaling, individual track rendering, separate audio codecs, head and tail fades, and water- marks for movies. You can save a group of settings for reuse.

If those settings sound daunting, Media Cleaner Pro 3 offers two easy ways to get great results. You can select predefined settings from a comprehensive list in the Advanced Settings window, or use the Settings Wizard.

Media Cleaner Pro 3 also introduces powerful new features that digital video mavens will love. You can set in and out points on any clips added to the batch list. It also features inverse telecine, which eliminates the 3:2 pull-down process in film-to-video transfers. Media Cleaner Pro 3 provides supports for nonsquare pixels and the CCIR 601 video standard that DV cameras and decks use. You can render movies destined for the Web with embedded URLs at the end to call up Web pages. Another impressive Web-centric feature is alternate rendering. Media Cleaner Pro 3 compresses two versions of a single movie — one for 28.8-kbps playback and one for ISDN playback, for example — then creates a single pointer movie that you can put in a Web page. To ensure that you can take immediate advantage of these features, Media Cleaner Pro 3 includes QuickTime Pro 3.

Media Cleaner Pro 3’s interface is much better than version 2’s. Clip and track information is easy to access, and graphs can represent data rate and frame sizes for easy visual assessment. The Advanced Settings window has improved preset management with obvious buttons to create, save, and delete setting presets, which were annoyingly obtuse in version 2. Anyone who uses QuickTime, RealMedia, or sound files should own a copy of Media Cleaner Pro 3. No other app offers so many features or batch-compresses so many different media types.

Sanchez, Rick. (November 1998). Media Cleaner Pro 3. MacAddict. (pg. 70).

Serial Number: MC3-L52-H40-0ES

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Architecture

68K + PPC (FAT)

System Requirements

From Mac OS 7.0 up to Mac OS 9.2

Compatibility notes

System Requirements

• Macintosh or MacOS compatible computer with 68040 CPU (PowerPC strongly recommended, and required for several features)
• MacOS 7.0 or later  (8.0 or later recommended)
• QuickTime 2.5  (3.0 or later strongly recommended, and required for read/write of several formats)
• 16 MB of available application RAM with 1 - 2MB left over for QuickTime (32 MB recommended for movies or stills with larger image dimensions)
• 256 color monitor (monitor capable of displaying at least 832x624 pixels in millions or thousands of colors recommended)
• CD-ROM drive (2x or faster recommended)
• 40 MB of free hard drive space for standard install (4MB for minimal install; 150 MB for application, all sample movies, and third-party products recommended)

Emulating this? It could probably run under: Basilisk II