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#1 2008-06-19 11:11 am
- john_w
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Substitute for ACDSee and Power DVD
I'm new to MAC and I was wondering what are good substitutes for ACDSee and Cyberlink's PowerDVD?
For the ACDSee sub I'm looking for a program that can do multiple naming at least.
For Powerdvd sub I'm looking for a program that can do screen captures, and play multiple file formats.
Any suggestions?
Thanks.
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#2 2008-06-19 11:18 am
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Re: Substitute for ACDSee and Power DVD
Not sure about ACDSee.
But for video playback and captures, VLC is generally my application of choice.
BTW, should this be in the Pro Shop
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#3 2008-06-19 4:26 pm
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Re: Substitute for ACDSee and Power DVD
For basic photo organization you can use iPhoto that came with your Mac.
For something with quite a bit more power in both editing photos and organizing them, I suggest looking into GraphicConverter (US$35 shareware).
Because of licensing problems your Mac's DVD Player directly routes the video from your player to the screen and bypassing the OS, so you won't be able to do screen captures. To do this, I agree with Antonio and suggest using VLC.
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#4 2008-06-19 4:28 pm
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Re: Substitute for ACDSee and Power DVD
Look at Graphic Converter. It should do everything ACDSee does as well as naming functions.
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#5 2008-06-19 7:15 pm
Re: Substitute for ACDSee and Power DVD
GraphicConverter makes ACDSee look like a toy.
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#6 2008-06-23 4:29 pm
- john_w
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Re: Substitute for ACDSee and Power DVD
Thank you all. 
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#7 2008-06-24 3:54 am
- Greg Grant
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Re: Substitute for ACDSee and Power DVD
Notable DVD Player does playback DVD ISOs and Video_TSes, its really handy for doing testing. VLC doesn't handle on the Mac side DVDs nearly as well as DVD Player as the menu support is marginal.
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